| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
John Pendlebury Family Papers |
| Reference No. |
PEN 1/3/1/5/14 |
| Level |
Item |
| Dates |
31 Dec [1927] |
| Donor/Creator |
Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
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| Scope and Content |
Sent from the British School at Athens (BSA). Detailing his plans for the continued tour of the Argolid with [Walter] Heurtley and others from the BSA including that John may go to Aigina [Aegina] at the end to look at items in the museum; describing a day trip he had been on to Kalyvia (near Eleusis [Elefsína]), Daphni [Dhafní] Monastery, the Sacred Way including the Temple of Aphrodite, Salamis [Salamís] and [Pireaus]; and mentioning he would to go to Crete soon. John also mentions that cigarettes had arrived and describes his difficulty in getting them from the post office and tobacco control; that there was no point writing from anywhere other than Athens as post was not collected; and that he would be having dinner with [Arthur and Jocelyn] Woodward that evening and tea with Mr Spanoudes of the Greek A.A.A [Amateur Athletics Association] that afternoon. |
| Notes |
See PEN 2/2/1/118-124 for photographs of the trip walking the Sacred Way. |
| Related records |
[PEN 2/2/1], Volume, “Greece 1927-28, Vol. I”, Oct 1927 – Apr 1928
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