Letter to “Daddy” [Herbert Pendlebury] from John [Pendlebury]

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/5/7
Level Item
Dates Undated [Nov 1927]
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Sent from the British School at Athens. Telling Herbert about his visit to Constantinople [Istanbul], the journey by boat to Athens, that the School were not expecting John and Bob Dixon as their telegram did not have their names on it, and there would not be a British School excavation that year so he hoped that [Carl] Blegen would go to Greece so John might get some experience on an excavation. Also telling Herbert that the school was full with women students so he and Bob Dixon had to share a room, that [Walter] Huertley was “very Oxford and cheerless”, and that he and Bob [Dixon] would go to Mycenae to learn Greek.