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Sent from Knossos. Mainly telling Herbert about an incident involving the BSA being accused (by [Spyridon] Marinatos, Director of the Candia Museum) of trying to buy vases which John, [Humfry] Payne and [Dorothy] Hartley had been to see and photograph in a house in Candia [Iráklion]. Their driver and the owners of the vases were arrested. John had sent correspondence to [Humfry] Payne to take to the Ministry of Archaeology and British Legation in Athens, expected Marinatos was “about done for the high jump”, and was going to demand a full apology be published in all the newspapers. Also telling Herbert about reports on John’s paper [given at the BSA and based on his article ‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’]; that the 2 copies of ‘Aegyptiaca’ he had sent had not yet arrived; that they were giving lunch to some Hellenic travellers on Friday; the Villa [Ariadne] and Taverna were looking good; and [Arthur] Evans was to arrive around the 12th [of April]. |
