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Sent from the British School at Athens (BSA). Telling Herbert about his work [on Egyptian finds in Greece], exploring Athens with Hilda White, a dance at the [British] Legation that he went to with Bob [Dixon], and plans for trips to Salamis [Salamís] (to see the Cave of Euripides) and Crete. John and Hilda had been exploring the Dipylon [Gate], Roman remains, the Sacred Way and the Pnyx in Athens, and the Tatoi Palace (with a taxi driver was an ex-colonel in the White Army of Russia). At the same time Bob [Dixon] had been to Olympia and Delphi. John describes seeing the Turkish Minister (Djavid Bey) and Madame Kapodistrias do a Turkish dance, and a Russian Prince dance the waltz, at the Legation. Also asks Herbert to send John’s notes on vases, coins and Prehistoric Greece (Seltman); thanks him for sending other notes; mentions that he and Hilda were doing a course on vases and coins; tells him that [Winifred] Lamb had sent him information on a bronze vase and [Charles] Seltman had organised an introduction for John to Arvanitopoulos [the curator at Vólos museum], and that he was going to write to the [British Museum] and Jock [?] [for his work]. John additionally tells Herbert that he had given the part of a Minyan bowl which he and Hilda found at Aegina to the BSA collection of sherds, that he had good photographs [of his last trip to the Argolid] and Athens, and that it was good he was reading Latin and Greek as he was in danger of “adopting the modern pronunciation”. Includes a story about a member of the BSA misusing a Greek phrase. |
