Letter from “your loving Husband” to “My own love” [John Pendlebury to Hilda Pendlebury] from Tzermiadha [Tzermiado]

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/2/1/2/11
Level Item
Dates Monday, June 12, 1939
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Thanking Hilda for letters and news; giving her news of the excavation including details of finds, that the weather had been very poor and volcanoes were predicted for the 17th [of June]; describing the house that had been built [at Tzermiado] including the furnishing and that they had held a dance on the roof; telling Hilda about his walk to Knossos to fill in/send an income-tax form and “old Louka” accompanying him on the return journey; and discussing a review of [‘The Archaeology of Crete’] by Theophanidus, John’s criticisms of an article about Tell el-Amarna, and receiving an article by James Strachey who John had met at “the Exhibition” [British School or Egypt Exploration Society Exhbition].