About the John Pendlebury Family Papers
The John Pendlebury Family Papers cover the period from 1913 to 1964 and document the life of archaeologist and WWII hero John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, his wife Hilda and their family.
Consists of 5 pages with prints of photographs stuck onto them, labelled in [Hilda Pendlebury’s handwriting]. Contains 5 photographs, 4 of which are later prints of photographs in a photograph album PEN 7/2/4. The 5th seems to be a later print of a photograph which is missing from this same album.
This is similar to a series of photographs of the interior of the Villa Ariadne in a photograph album (PEN 7/2/5).
The only negative which does not have a corresponding print elsewhere in the John Pendlebury Family Papers Archive is of [John Pendlebury] on a horse, wearing an army uniform [c. Jan 1940 at 110th Officer Cadet Training Unit (Cavalry), Weedon, Northamptonshire].
Photographs of archaeological sites, landscapes, and 2 of people. 13 are duplicates of photographs elsewhere in the John Pendlebury Family Papers Archive, 4 are similar to other photographs in the Archive, 1 is labelled but is not a duplicate and 3 are unidentified.
Refers to items in PEN 7/5/1-4 & 26
Refers to items in PEN 7/5/8-14, 19, 24 & 25.
Refers to items in PEN 7/5/8-14 & 19.
Refers to items in PEN 7/5/16 & 19-20.
Refers to items in PEN 7/5/20, 22-23 & 25-36. The book also includes lists of “prints lacking negatives” and glass negatives.
On headed paper from the School of Oriental Studies Union Society, University of London. Sending Hilda a document (relating to their forthcoming marriage), telling her he had bought camp beds [for their honeymoon] and asking her to get sleeping bags and a torch, asking her to decipher [hieroglyphs] and promising to "behave in and/or on the sea".
With additional annotations [in Hilda’s writing]. Subjects include: thanking Hilda for a telegram and letter; recounting walks in Eastern Crete whilst staying at, Tsermiada [Tzermiado], Neapolis [Neápolis] and Psychro [Psychron] (walks around [Mount] Oxa, Vrakhas [Vrakhásion], Trapeza Cave, Erganos, Viano [Archavianos], Amira, Arvi, Embaros); tales of John’s companions (Old George, Manoli, Mercy [Money-Coutts], the Squire [R W Hutchinson], Mrs Hutchinson, the Wolf, "the witch of Endor", Kosti and [Sylvia] Benton); Khronis [Bardakis’] mule; asking Hilda to get a review of the Tell el-Amarna [Amarna, Egypt] excavation translated from Dutch, and to run errands including getting glass eyes; John damaging his ankle; a trip to Dhia [Día, Nísos]; forwarding letters from Mohammed Awad and Hussein [at Amarna?]; plans to go to Mount Ida; pleasure that "the brats" [David and Joan Pendlebury] were well; a letter that John had received from "Little Arthur"; and asking if Miss Jones had plans back from Lovat Dickson and if arrangements were going well for an exhibition in September.
Thanking Hilda for a letter, newspaper clippings and notes; sending a report on “Stubbing’s treatise”, a job application “for Minn’s job” [Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge] and a letter to the Master of Emmanuel [College, Cambridge], asking Hilda to get these items typed and sent; saying “Old Will” had asked after her and that John was going to see the Hills and Blegens [Carl], and that he hoped to go to Kimolos [Kímolos] and Melos [Mílos] with [Gerard Mackworth] Young [Director, British School at Athens].