Aug. 9th, 1982
To:
Dr. Richard M. Dougherty
Director, University Library
Dear Dr. Dougherty:
Thank you very much for your letter of July 30th. I appreciate the
impressive support which you and other colleagues who were involved
in the decision, particularly Miss Mona East and Mrs. Karla Vandersypen,
have given to papyrology. The extraordinary commitment to papyrology
which the library has shown exceeds by far what I or anybody could
reasonably expect in these days of financial stringency.
I may report that I have negotiated twice with M. Facklemann over
the telephone and we reached an agreement. We shall receive all the
about 17 papyri (small fragments not counted) which seem to belong
to each other and of which you have seen photographs. The price was
set at doll. 10.000 as I had predicted (originally Mr. Facklemann
had asked 12.000 to 13.000). I could, however, not include an additional
piece of which you also saw a photograph as it had already been sold
to the University Library of Princeton. Nevertheless I am more than
satisfied with the result.
On details of closing the deal I shall write to Miss East.
L. Koenen
