Queens College
Oxford

My dear Smyly,
We are now back
again at work and starting on
the Hibeh things (which are
infernally difficult). The
last month at Oxyrhynchus
wasn't very exciting, but the
season as a whole was quite
good. The documents in particular
include some very superior finds

I had hoped to find P.P.III²
out by now, but alas it
seems to be still lingering. Can
you promise it soon, or have
you a spare set of proofs?
I will be very difficult for us
to get on without it.
I am to lecture at Dublin,
auspice Bernard³, on June 154th
& 16 15th. For the first lecture ('Oxyrhynchus

& its Papyri') I have demanded
slides.⁴ Tell Mahaffy, when
he returns from Greece, that I
shall stay with him, and hope
by then to have some new Ptol.
texts to show you both.
Have you undone any more
Tebtunis cartonnage? We are
going to send a batch of
demotic papyri to Spiegelberg⁵
before long, to be returned to

Cairo, and we shall want the
best preserved demotic ones which
you have unrolled. I will select
them, when I come over.
Au revoir before long.