| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
John Pendlebury Family Papers |
| Reference No. |
PEN 1/2/1/2/5 |
| Level |
Item |
| Dates |
Sunday, April 09, 1939 |
| Donor/Creator |
Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
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| Scope and Content |
Thanking Hilda for letters and a telegram, hoping David is better and asking Hilda to give David his love, and updating Hilda on his activities and news: details of a trip to Naxos with Mercy [Money-Coutts] and Vincent [Desborough]; comments that Vincent was better when away from the British School on a trip; [Carl] Blegen finding a Mycenaean palace at Pylos [Pílos]; Mrs Hill and Mrs Blegen sending their best wishes to Hilda; Piet de Jong having had an abscess in his throat; Edith Eccles having her appendix out; John having been to the top of Hymettos mountain range [Imittós Óros]; hearing from Walter Heurtley [that he had got £25 from the BSA?]; John having been asked to contribute a festschrift [for Johnny Myers]; having seen Helen Negroponti; [David] Iliffe [head of Jerusalem Museum] having been shot in Jerusalem; and details of finances from [Herbert] Pendlebury. |
| Notes |
See PEN 2/2/4/271-353 for photographs of the trip to Naxos [Náxos, Nísos] and Paros [Páros, Nísos]. |
| Related records |
[PEN 2/2/4], Volume, Travels in Sicily and Greece, 27 Dec 1929 – 10 Mar 1931 and c. Mar-Apr 1939
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