Travels in Sicily and Greece

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 2/2/4
Level Volume
Dates 27 Dec 1929 – 10 Mar 1931 and c. Mar-Apr 1939
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Comprising a notebook travel log, compiled by John Pendlebury, containing photographs and details of trips in Sicily (27 Dec 1929-25 Jan 1930); to Phyle [Filí] and the Cave of Pan (9 Feb 1930); Vari [Vári] and the Cave of Pan (16 Feb 1930); Athens to Chalcis [Khalkís] and Eretria [Erétria] via Thebes (2-3 Mar 1930); the Argolid (6-11 Feb 1931); Andros [Ándros] (19-26 Feb 1931); Athens, Delphi, Thermopylae [Thermopílai], Chaeroneia [Chaironeia], H. Luke [Monastery of Hosios Loukas, near Steíri], Thebes and Gla [with Hilda Pendlebury, Humfry Payne and Dilys Powell] (2-10 Mar 1931); Thorikos (1939); Kimolos [Kímolos, Nísos] and Syros [Sýros, Nísos], with Gerard Mackworth Young (18-27 Mar 1939); Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] (30 Mar – 8 Apr 1939); and Mycenae and Pylos [Pílos] (15 – 18 Apr 1939). Volume also includes notes by [Hilda Pendlebury] attached by paperclips. One note is about a photograph of Perachora, and another explains that they had not been able to travel west from Delphi on their trip in March 1931 because of the weather. John and Hilda were accompanied on the trip to the Argolid by James Hilary Sheffield Waddington and Mary Chubb. Includes photographs of Ancient Corinth and the Heraion of Perachora which were taken by James Hilary Sheffield Waddington or Mary Chubb (Feb 1931), after their trip to the Argolid with John and Hilda Pendlebury. John and Hilda did not accompany them to Corinth and Perachora.