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Sent from Hotel Minos, Candia [Iráklion]. Telling Herbert that he had arrived in Crete after a rough sea journey, giving his first impressions of Knossos and [Arthur] Evans’ restorations, and outlining plans for an expedition in Eastern Crete, doing work in the museum at [Iráklion] and trips to sites close to Iráklion. During the expedition to Eastern Crete they [John, Hilda White, Vivien Whitfield and Margaret Rodger] planned to visit Neapolis [Neápolis], Hagios Nikolaos [Áyios Nikólaos], Pachyammos [Pacheía Ámmos] (staying at [Richard] Seager’s house), Gournia [Gourniá], Vasiliki [Vasilikí], Hierapetra [Ierápetra], Sitia [Sitía], Palaikastro, Petsula and Zakro. John also planned to visit sites [near Iráklion] including Tylissos [Tilíssos] and Nirou Chani, and Phaestos [Faistós] and Hagia Triadha [Agía Triáda]. John mentions that as well as [his own work on Egyptian finds in Greece] he would be photographing and organising the publication of some vases for [Richard] Dawkins [former Director of BSA] from an excavation at Plati [in the Lasithi Plain]; and that he had discovered scarabs in the numismatic museum which had been the property of [Heinrich Schliemann]. Also sending a photograph (not present) of [Walter] Heurtley at the cave of Euripides on Salamis [Salamís] entitled “the end of a Stone Age Feud” [see PEN 2/2/1/181]. John additionally writes that he had received ‘The Unity of Homer’ [by John Adams Scott] but not an invitation to Isabels’ [?] wedding. John labelled the letter as written on “Sunday 12th”, and it is annotated by [a later hand] as February. |
