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Expressing concern that Hilda wasn’t getting his letters, hope that she wasn’t “overdoing it” and asking about her show [a play]; news of the excavation at Karphi including finds and that the site was looking excellent from Mikre Koprana; telling Hilda about the Kasapides going to lunch at Karphi and the men dancing afterwards, and plans for visiting the Kasapides’ [when the group leave Karphi] and to travel via Gerontomouri, Kastamonitza, Mokhos [Mokhós] and Khersonesus [Khersónisos]; asking Hilda to find copies of photographs used in [‘The Archaeology of Crete’] for Hans [Frankfort] to use in his lectures to be given in Chicago, and to send a note to George Sadly asking for Wroth’s catalogue of Cretan and Aegean coins; discussing a positive review [of ‘The Archaeology of Crete’] in Nature (journal) by Johnny Myers, and a book that John had ordered the previous autumn; telling Hilda that a branch of the Anglo Hellenic league had been founded in Candia [Iráklion], that John had been made a member of the committee and had been called to a meeting on the day of the meeting. Also thanking Hilda for sending notes by Stephen Glanville about Tell el-Amarna [Amarna], asking if Ron Jenkins was planning on going to Crete that year, sending love from Sphakianakes [?] who had returned, and including 2 poems [written by John] about an old wolf [possibly referring to Ron Jenkins] and Manolake [foreman at Knossos]. |
