<p style='text-align: justify;'>1953 Director's Daybook compiled by A.J.B. Wace. On the r. arrivals and departures are recorded along with a daily summary of excavation progress across the site: Lion Tomb, Prehistoric Cemetery, House of the Oil Merchant, House of Shields, House of Sphinxes, Rock, Perseia area, Hellenistic City Wall, Cyclopean Terrace Building, Citadel House, North House. On v. significant small finds recorded.<br />Draft preliminary report for the excavations ff. 75-80. List at the back of dig expenses.<br />1 insert: 1 leaf of typescript with annotations in ink by AJBW on the chronology of the site of Troy, now stored flat in a folder, previously folded and placed at at f. 18.</p>