Letter to “Daddy” [Herbert Pendlebury] from John [Pendlebury]

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/6/3
Level Item
Dates 1 Jul [1928]
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Asking if he and Hilda [White] could come to visit tomorrow for Herbert and Dickie to meet Hilda, and telling Herbert about their plans to get married in March [1929] and to spend their honeymoon looking at possibly excavation sites in the South of Crete; discussing athletics and how he felt old in comparison to young high jumpers, but that he was very happy; asking if any post had arrived from Greece; discussing his work on [‘Aegyptiaca’]; telling Herbert he had a nice letter from [Walter] Heurtley who was concerned about David Robinson who was excavating at Olynthos, and [Sylvia] Benton and Radford who had gone to the Mountains of Epiros.