| Description | Bundle of letters and other papers:
Letter to Buckler from J. Keil, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, 2 July 1926, enclosing the financial report giving the costings for Keil's planned expedition to Gilivia that year. The letter also reports difficulties with the Turkish authorities in respect of proposed excavations at Ephesos and discusses material collected by Guyer and Herzfeld. Letter and report typed, in German
Manuscript report on the expedition to Cilicia by Adolf Wilhem, undated manuscript, 48 pages, with proof marks. The report gives the academic background to the expedition, the itinerary and some discoveries and also covers the wide range of problems encountered such as a lack of accurate mapping, the plundering of previously mapped sites, and malaria. Typed versions of this report are in MS 3286/3/1/6.
Letter from Ian Macpherson to Calder dated Ankara, 13 April 1953, reporting the discovery of five new milestones; also second page only of another letter from Macherson describing the excavation of a stone from the mosque at Bahadat.
Letter from George Bean dated Cihagin Cadessi, 17 November 1955, discussing inscriptions; with a sketch-map and a list of names and sources. Bean remarks that Ramsay was an "old scoundrel at times" as he (Bean) had revisited some of Ramsay's stones and feels that Ramsay had "made up facts afterwards" to suit his "convenience". The rest of the letter deals with Professor Calder's map and Bean's annotations and suggested corrections.
Envelope of photographs of inscribed stones, sent to Calder in Edinburgh by the Director of the Afyon Museum; undated |