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Mount Pleasant. Bathurst. N.S.W. 19.6.62
Dear Professor Schaeffer, I don't believe I ever wrote to thank you & Mme Schaeffer for your very kind letter of Feb. 19th - please forgive me. As you can imagine, I have been very busy, & I expect to be fully occupied for many years. Until my husband's son comes of age, in 5 years time, I have to supervise running the property here (we have 1000 sheep & 400 turkeys, among other things) - but that is a minor problem. My main worry is how to get all my husband's half-finished works
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published, particularly his excavation reports, his "Corpus" of Early Cypriot objects and his History of the Lusignan Coinage of Cyprus. I am hoping that the University of Sydney will help me with the first; the second may, perhaps, come out in Op. Ath., while his friends in England are considering what can be done with the third. I am afraid I have no news for you about your Vounous report. I think my husband told you that Robert Merrillees became quite unbearable (insolent, insubordinate & hopelessly conceited) & so he terminated his appointment, as from the end of December 1961. After we got back from abroad, in June last year, the young man went out of his way to annoy & defy my husband, although he knew that he was
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