Letter from “your loving Husband” to “My own darling” [John Pendlebury to Hilda Pendlebury] from Knossos

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/2/1/2/9
Level Item
Dates Friday, May 05, 1939
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Telling Hilda about a trip around Western Crete with Mercy [Money-Coutts] and the Squire [R W Hutchinson] (to Khania [Chania], Kiramos, Trakhila/Selli, Agios Sostes, Gravousa, Phalasarna, Platanos, Polysslenia, Rokka, Kolympari and Khomia). That Naxakes had joined them for part of the journey and had been “an extremely pleasant companion”, and that Mercy and John had been mistaken for spies. John also thanked Hilda for a review from [the Illustrated London News] and told her where a stub for a check for Rex was, informed her that “poor old George” [Markogiannakis] had died, and that he had enjoyed getting David’s letter.