At the top left there is a drawing of flowers, a bird, a rooster and foliage.

At the top right is the address: "Giotto's Hill", 20th Street, Menlo Park, Pretoria, 19 December 1952.

To Professor C. van Riet Lowe,

Director,

Archaeological Survey,

University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg

Dear Professor,

Very many thanks indeed for supporting my application which is being considered at the Council's next meeting in November 1952. What I greatly appreciate is your additional information on the Zontpansberg - Limpopo sites as this is an area I would love to work & I shall let you know what I find. It is due to you that the grasshoppers of Machete are famous! Always surprises. What next after grasshoppers - angels?

Of the work you do I am reminded of what Bullett says of Blake, "His whole life was a piece of sustained mental creation; & he attained, not without dust & heat, to a high degree of spiritual sanity". Thus the study of the mystery of man leads to a comprehension of the spiritual.

I have wanted to write to you about a story you once told about measuring the gold of Mapungubwe for the Government & that the robbers received ½. There is nothing in Fouché about this & [I] wonder if you could give me the true story.

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I am busy on a little book of sketches which I shall call "Unknown Limpopo" or perhaps "Limpopo Sketch Book" & I'm very keen to put in something authentic & interesting about your part & the gold recovery of Mapungubwe.

By the way Mr. Huyser, the Curator for the Pretoria University, tells me he has heard there are Bushmen Paintings on Greefswald on rocks near the river! He said he would find our for me. It's possible.

A young student of mine, Murray Schoonraad of Messina, went recently into Rhodesia on his bicycle & got a copy of an excellent painting of a rhinoceros on rocks near the Limpopo & I don’t believe this site has been copied before. I hope to publish it in "Lantern" so he can get a few guineas to go on with some more research in that area as he has to pay guides to take him.

Please note that I saw 4 little sites recently on the "Crocodile River Estates" (Mr & Mrs Ivan Solomon) just outside of Nelspruit. The figures are interesting - but nothing exceptional really.

We very much enjoyed our dining with you recently & cannot forget your kindness & Grace too sends her warm regards again to Mrs van Riet Lowe & yourself,

as I do,

Sincerely yours,