Madensheher June 4 Dearest Mother. I haven't kept to my good resolutions in the matter of a diary letter but the fact is I'm so very busy. We have cleared and I have planned two complicated churches in the last few days and I spent a long half day at a distant spot examining some caves which turned out to be the treasuries of the Byzantine castle - no treasure in them I'm sorry to say. I've got another guest today, an American boy called Robinson who is step son to Professor Hilprecht, a great friend and ally of Hamdy's. He is a very nice boy. Hamdy wrote me a most polite letter, which was forwarded to me the Kaimakam of Karaman [(Laranda)], and what with his backing (and I expect the Grand Vizier's) we have been unmolested by any govt. official. Now whether we really had the right to do all we have done doesn't seem to matter since they have let us do it. We are nearly finished here and hope to move up to the upper town at the end of the week. That will be pleasant, both because we may get different results and because it is rather hot down here. We are very much shut in by hills and it's stuffy in the middle of the day, very. I never saw so dry a place. There's not a vestige of dew. We have had one or two thunderstorms but the rain dries up at once. In spite of which hundreds of charming flowers have come into bloom, all sorts of delicious little herbaceous things to which I'm blest if I can put a name. I must try and get some seeds.
I've been working all today from dawn on the big apse on which I first began. It still remains a complete puzzle and one which I fear will not be elucidated. I shall give it a day off so as to think about it and then do another day's work on it. The walls we have uncovered seem to have no meaning and they are such bad work that it's a stretch of the imagination to suppose that there is any consecutive idea in them. Anyway it's not a church, of so much we are certain; and the guesses of all our predecessors have been wrong, but what to guess ourselves is the problem. The learned world is agog about my Hittite inscription. We shall have to go up and do some more work there. It's all very very nice - I'm enjoying it thoroughly.

I'm very glad Father's speak was so good, please tell him. He is certainly an old thing. Redmonds action[?] is most entertaining. Poor Mr Birrell has no luck with his bills. Ever your affectionate daughter GB