| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
John Pendlebury Family Papers |
| Reference No. |
PEN 1/2/1/2/7 |
| Level |
Item |
| Dates |
Friday, April 21, 1939 |
| Donor/Creator |
Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
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| Scope and Content |
Hoping that Hilda had received a telegram announcing that John had arrived in Knossos and that [David and Joan] had cards from him, and updating Hilda on his activities and news: having received a mysterious letter from the French School [in Athens] containing a carol service programme from Pembroke College and a letter from a bank manager to Mr Bayley; his trip to Pylos [Pílos] and Mycenae; news about [friends at Mycenae] Helen, Agamemnon, Costa, and asking Hilda if she got a “party spirit post card” signed by old Gianoula; a trip to Kalamata [Kalámai] and Pylos [Pílos] with Vincent [Desborough] which included seeing [Carl] Blegen’s excavation of a palace at Pylos [Pílos]; details of Blegen’s excavations; travelling back to Athens from Kalamata [Kalámai] then on to Knossos; work done in the museum at Knossos; hoping to go to Grabusa with Mercy [Money-Coutts] and the Squire [R W Hutchinson], then on to Lasithi [Lasíthi] in a month; and seeing the tholos [at Knossos] and doubting the dating. John also asks Hilda for her original pottery notes and sends love from “everyone, particularly Manoli”. |
| Notes |
See PEN 2/2/4/354-360 for photographs of the trip to Mycenae, Kalamata [Kalámai] and Pylos [Pílos]. |
| 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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