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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.

Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] [PEN 2/2/4/345], Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos], Thursday, April 06, 1939

View of a rocky hill with paths and walls circling it. [Site of a fortified hill?]. Mercy-Money Coutts and Vincent Desborough visited Rhizokastellia without John Pendlebury.

Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] [PEN 2/2/4/346], Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos], Thursday, April 06, 1939

[Site of a fortified hill?]. View of [top of hill] with [Vincent Desborough] examining the ground. Mercy-Money Coutts and Vincent Desborough visited Rhizokastellia without John Pendlebury.

Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] [PEN 2/2/4/347], Photograph of “Rhizokastellia” [near Vívlos], Naxos [Náxos, Nísos], Thursday, April 06, 1939

[Site of a fortified hill?] in the distance. Mercy-Money Coutts and Vincent Desborough visited Rhizokastellia without John Pendlebury.

Photograph of “Agios Kapsimas (?)”, Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] [PEN 2/2/4/348], Photograph of “Agios Kapsimas (?)”, Naxos [Náxos, Nísos], Thursday, April 06, 1939

View of [a church] in the countryside. Mercy-Money Coutts and Vincent Desborough were on this day trip without John Pendlebury.

Photograph of “Tholos Tomb, Dendra” [PEN 7/2/2/37], Photograph of “Tholos Tomb, Dendra”, [1927-1928]

Photograph includes people and modern house above the entrance to the tomb.

Letter to John Pendlebury from his father, with an envelope [PEN 1/1/1/1], Letter to John Pendlebury from his father, with an envelope, Sunday, April 07, 1918

Congratulating John on a good school report [from Beaudesert Park School, Henley-in-Arden]; asking John to tell his mother that “the old men” (Doctors Sing, Powels and Kachbas) had enjoyed that evening with Herbert Pendlebury; mentioning that he would be having supper with Doctor Sing in order to meet Doctor and Mrs McCaskie; and commenting on his complexion. The letter was sent from 44 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square [London] to John who was staying with his mother at Herbert and Violet [Mitchell’s] house (Holly Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire). Herbert Pendlebury refers to the Mitchell’s as “Aunt Violet and Uncle H”.