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Sent from the British School at Athens (BSA). Giving first impressions of people at the BSA; telling Herbert about plans to go travelling in Thessaly with Bob [Dixon], [Margaret Rodger] and [Hilda] White; about his work [tracking down archaeological finds of Egyptian origin in Greece] including plans to visit Sparta, Gytheion [Yíthion] and Crete in Spring; and saying he had played tennis at the school, felt very fit and the weather was good. John also tells Herbert that his luggage and cigarettes and [photographic] films had not yet arrived, asks him to request specific books as part of a prize [from Pembroke College] and check if there was a guide to the Cyprus collection at the [British Museum], discusses photographs from his travels (he sent the negatives to Herbert), and asks why Turkish people had lighter complexions that Greek people. John gives his impressions of people he had met at the BSA (Davis, [Winifred] Lamb, [Sylvia] Benton, Miss Whitfield, Miss Roger, Miss Turnbull, [Hilda] White); mentions that the Woodwards [Arthur, Director of BSA, and his wife Jocelyn] and [Walter] Heurtley [Assistant Director, BSA] were also there, and that he felt like an imposter as they were all “so obviously learned to the eyebrows”. |
