Letter to “Daddy” [Herbert Pendlebury] from John [Pendlebury]

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/10/5
Level Item
Dates Sunday, January 26, 1930
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Sent from the British School at Athens. Telling Herbert about the trip back to Athens via Taormina, Messina, Reggio [di Calabria] (to go to a museum), Paestum, Taranto and Brindisi, and that they had arrived back in Athens the previous day on the same boat as [Eleftherios] Venizelos [Prime Minister]. Also telling Herbert: that he had heard from [Stephen] Glanville about his article on [‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’], that Glanville and [Henry] Hall had made suggestions for changes and were sending the proofs to John; that they [BSA residents?] were playing hockey against the British Navy who were Piraeus the next day; thanking Herbert for books, asking him to look for photographic negatives of Crete and mentioning he had never received an advertisement for [‘Aegyptiaca’] from the Times Literary [Supplement].
Notes See PEN 2/2/4/1-99 for photographs from the trip to Sicily and Italy.
Related records [PEN 2/2/4], Volume, Travels in Sicily and Greece, 27 Dec 1929 – 10 Mar 1931 and c. Mar-Apr 1939