Letter·34 CDF art. 113·25 September 1972

Letter from Schaeffer to Hundt about EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 113 (Letter from Schaeffer to Hundt about Enkomi), handwritten in German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 113, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Printed: L'ESCALE

Printed: LA CROIX-VALMER

Printed: B. P. 16.

Printed: VAR. 83

25 September 1972

Dear Professor Hundt, I hope that you and Madame Hundt have had your Swiss mountain holidays again given you really refreshing strength . I was there a few days too (Rigi area) to recover, after a stay in our Vosges hermitage, definitively from a shingles that had left me unable to work in July + 1/2 Aug. . It was at 74 my first real illness and taught me to endure patiently severe physical pain. Now everything is O.K. again. A Mr J. Liénard, the editor of a specialist publication of the French concern "Le Bronze Industriel" in Paris, would like to publish the enclosed extract in French of your report on the conservation of the Enk.-Alasia bronzes with colour illustrations. Please let me know whether that would be agreeable to you, and send me back the manuscript, possibly with your corrections. A German version of the same extract will be sent to you shortly. In February (13) I have accepted an invitation from the Karlsruhe Landesmuseum, there

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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