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 1/2/1/2/13
Level Item
Dates Undated, annotated by a later hand “about 24/6/3
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Thanking Hilda for letters and a list of offprints sent; discussing reviews [of ‘The Archaeology of Crete’]; telling Hilda about Dikaios’ visit, a glendi they had on John’s name day, that they had been to the school prize giving ceremony, that Zakhary had to leave the excavation to go to another excavation at Agia Triadha [Agía Triáda] but John hoped he would be back; giving her news of the excavation including details of finds and that he thought they would finish Karphi that year; telling Hilda he had heard from Alan [Wace?] that there was to be an excavation at Knossos in 1940 that John would be asked to be part of, and that Schaeffer would be digging at Isopata; and John’s plans for finishing work and returning to [Cambridge] by the end of [June], and mentioning the tennis lawn and cat [in Cambridge].