Daile June 14 Dearest Father. You have written me such a lot of delightful letters and given me so much interesting news of all the affairs of home. I'm charmed to hear the rock garden looks nice. I don't think it's very dear considering what it is, do you? Has Backhouse planted the blue and white border? for that ought to be included in the account which makes it embrace more than the rock garden. Will you ask Hanagan? I'm glad we have an addition to the stable. I hope the foal will turn out well. It's disappointing Mrs Ambrose did not come - I wanted to hear what you and M. [Maurice] made of her. We are flourishing here and doing a great deal of work. The history of the mountain develops. Our chief new contribution is it's extremely early history, Hittite. We have now got the outlying fort at the entrance of the hills with inscriptions and altars and the all sorts. It's most exciting. Sir W. [William Ramsay] thinks it's a very early Hittite settlement. I have no opinion but I listen with rapt interest to his views. He is very keen I should go for a week to the Hassan Dagh [Hasan Dagi] east of the Karajadagh [Karaca Dag] before I leave and I think if I have energy I probably shall. He says it's full of things and almost unexplored and it would be a great advantage to have another point of comparison for the book. I'm looking forward to writing my part of that but I must say I should like to know a little more first, or at any rate to have covered a wider field in this country. I am horribly bored at not being at E [Elsa]'s wedding. I shall always regret not having seen her married, but I think I am right in deciding to stay and finish this job. I hope you think so. It's being very pleasant, the life most agreeable and everything running smoothly. I really haven't a moment to think of anything but my work and it accumulates with an almost malignant rapidity. I tremble to think of the amount of drawing I have before me now. My plans of this place have stood the test of comparison with the originals I'm glad to say.
I'm not at all sure I shall not go and see Strzygowski for a day or two on my way home. I had always thought of that as a possibility. It wd be an advantage to talk some things over with him before I begin my writing and he wd no doubt give me a lot of invaluable suggestions. Ever dearest Father your affectionate daughter Gertrude