My dear Smyly,
Many thanks for your kind
invitation. There is nothing I should
like better than prolonging my stay
in your hospitable city,² but my visit
must be very brief this year and Hunt
does not propose to come^(he wants to go to his people).³ We both
look forward to coming next year
and staying some little⁴ time, bringing
some papyri with us. But amid
the appalling distractions of the summer

term we are not too well on with
our Fayûm⁵ volume for the Fund,⁶ and
in your interest as well as ours it is
very important we should finish it as soon
as possible, so as to get on to the
Amherst papyri,⁷ the publication of
which blocks the way to the
examination of our new finds.⁸ So
I only think of coming on June 25 or
26th (arriving Dublin on the morning of^ the 26th or
the 27th) and leaving on Sat. the 30th
or at latest on the following Monday.
As to where I shall stay, you and
Mahaffy settle it as is most

convenient.
Schubart⁹ seems a great improvement
on P. Meyer:¹⁰ though we look
forward to blowing them both up!
You remember the χαλκωρυχια¹¹ in
P.P.?¹² Well, I have discovered
whenre¹³ they are. But dont say anything
about it. We hope to dig there next
winter. The discovery may be of interest
in more ways than one.
My love to J.P.M. But I
cant bring any papyri. It will be more
use if I try and help you., though I shant
be much use, after wallowing for 4 years
in Roman.