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Sent from Hotel Majestic, Salonika [Thessaloníki]. About work with sherds [from the excavation in Chalkidiki, Mar-Apr 1928], that they had driven to see a mound that [Walter] Heurtley wanted to excavate in the Spring, and telling Herbert that he had received his letter and [answering questions] by informing him that: he and Hilda were returning to Athens on the 20th [of Oct]; they had been readmitted [to the BSA] but not made life members; and Hilda is from Lancashire with Irish ancestry. Also asks about books he had given to a binder, for Herbert to send [‘Travels and Researches in Crete’] by Spratt to Athens, and jokes in response to Herbert writing that a tough man in a 15 year old Rolls Royce full of bloodcurdling stories of Kenya had turned up (jokes that it would be cheaper than petrol). Additionally recounting a letter of complaint John had written to the Haymarket [Hotel, London] who had repaired his watch, and telling Herbert about his photos of Arcadia and that Hilda had a cold. |
