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Sent from the British School at Athens (BSA). Mainly describing a trip to Thessaly with Bob [Dixon], [Hilda] White and Miss Roger during which they visited Eretria [Erétria], a Turkish fort on Kara Baba [Karababa, Chalcis], Volo [Vólos], Dhimini [Dimini], Pagasae, Kalabaka [Kalambáka], the Meteora monasteries [Metéora], Larissa [Lárisa], and Baba (the old Gonnos) [Gonnoi]. Also mentions: a postcard he sent from Larissa [Lárisa] and that he had received letters from Herbert and Dickie [Mabel Dickinson]; his cigarettes, films and monocle hadn’t arrived in Athens but he had received books; he was going to Phyle [Filí] the next day; Heurtley may be excavating in Macedonia [province of Greece] in the Spring; he was feeling very fit and the boots he had were very good; and Bob [Dixon] had grown a beard during their travels in Thessaly (“a horrid sight which has disappeared today”). John also states that he should write some letters of introduction and asks Herbert to check books by Duncan Mackenzie [for references to finds of Egyptian origin in Greece]. |
