Aug. 9th, 1982
To:
Miss M. East
Graduate Library
Dear Miss East:
Let me first express my sincere thanks to you for your support you
have shown to me. I realize that without your help we would not have
been able to acquire the new papyri. You may have seen that two of
my students have already started to decipher two payri of the group
I had bought with me, and I am working on a third one. Other students
will begin studying these documents in September.
I enclose a copy of a letter to Dr. Dougherty which will inform you about the
agreement I have reached with Mr. M. Facklemann. There is one detail
on which I need your instruction. I shall see Mr. Facklemann next
May at the International Congress of Papyrology in Naples, and it
seems best to pick up the new papyri on this occasion. On the other
hand, Mr. Facklemann does not want to wait that long for his money.
The relatively cheap price (compared with deals which recently have
been made) was reached on the basis of an internationally strong dollar,
and, of course, nobody can predict how the dollar will be showing
next May. I have told Mr. Facklemann that I would discuss the problem
with the authorities of the Library. He will send us an invoice over
10.000 doll. Please, let me know how this should be handled.
L. Koenen
