A typed copy of a letter from [John Pendlebury to Hilda Pendlebury] sent from the British School at Athens

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/2/1/2/3
Level Item
Dates Thursday, March 16, 1939
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Thanking Hilda for notes, letters and papers; informing her that he was going to Kimolos [Kímolos, Nísos] and Syros [Sýros, Nísos] for a week from the following day, and that he had been to Thorikos and Markopoulo where he was “embraced by a tight Agrophylax”; news of people he had seen in Athens (Hill, [Carl] Blegen, Marinatos, Karousos, Miller, “Peche Melba”, Emile); sending the Heurtley’s address near Stroud (United Kingdom); informing Hilda he was going to play hockey and that one of the [British School] students (Vronwy Fisher) knew her nephew Jim; checking that Hilda was sending out a publication proof that [John] Forsdyke had returned and asking that she let him know when she received his report on an essay by Stubbings and his job application for the Disney [Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge].
Notes See PEN 2/2/4/248-251 for photographs of Thorikos, and PEN 2/2/4/252-270 for photographs of the trip to Kímolos and Sýros.
Related records [PEN 2/2/4], Volume, Travels in Sicily and Greece, 27 Dec 1929 – 10 Mar 1931 and c. Mar-Apr 1939