It also contains letters from/to Thomas Whittemore. For example : a letter from “CYN AFA[ ? ]H” to Whittemore on August 2, 1939, which describes Whittemore's interest in “mutilation of the eyes in Byzantine figures” ; possibly a transcribed letter from Whittemore to [ ? ] in ca. 1949-1950, which describes Whittemore's need “of [a] tubular scaffolding” in St. Sophia in order to work on the mosaics of the “three great prophets” ; and a letter from “Vladimir” to Whittemore on November 25, 1932 concerning Whittemore's inquiry about the Fossati and the narthex in Hagia Sophia.