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Written in Piraeus whilst John was waiting for [Stephen] Glanville, with a note added at the end that Glanville and [Alan] Shorter were 4 hours late, they had lunch and then John took them to the Acropolis. Giving news of people connected to the BSA and telling Herbert that he and Hilda were doing work, Hilda had begun working on a catalogue of Aegean [archaeological finds] in Crete, they were travelling to Egypt on the Khedivial Mail [steam ship] and would be staying at the Windsor Hotel in Cairo, the weather was cool in Athens and the BSA was “a very pleasant place”, and that [Stephanos] Xanthoudides (Director of the Candia museum) had died so John didn’t think he would get the photographs he had asked for. Of people connected to the BSA John states: [Winifred] Lamb had gone to Mitylene [Lésvos, to excavate] “in a great fuss”, [George Francis] Hill [Keeper of Coins and Medals department, British Museum] was staying at the school, [Bernard] Ashmole [from the British School at Rome] was staying at the [American School of Classical Studies], and [Walter] Heurtley was arriving back from Salonica [Thessaloníki]. Also thanking Herbert for his letter and [‘Travels and Researches in Crete’] by Spratt, asks Herbert to get [‘Troy and its remains’] by [Heinrich] Schliemann, and says that he and Hilda got a book of plates illustrating Aegean decorative art which they were annotating. |
