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Sent from Hotel Windsor, Cairo. Mainly about John and Hilda [Pendlebury’s] plans in Egypt, and their activities since they arrived. They had been to dinner with Kathleen [Hargreaves, John’s cousin] and her husband (Lionel) and were planning to go to Saqqara [Ṣaqqâra] the next day by camel from the Pyramids of Giza. They were to travel to Luxor on the 14th [of Nov], then around the 21st [Nov] John would go to Armant (to the Egyptian Exploration Society excavation) and Hilda would return to Cairo. Hilda was going to live very close to Kathleen [Hargreaves]. Reporting that Hilda was better from having a fever, that Hilda was having difficulty with getting a card to access the museums as she was not a member of the archaeological excavation, that John thought the Cairo was “a dreadful place…life is one long demand for money” and that the museum was “magnificent but far too full of the wrong things”, and they were both homesick for Greece John also mentions that [Alan] Shorter [who was travelling to the Armant excavation with John] had recovered, and asks Herbert to let him know the results of Intervarsity contests [athletics]. Undated, annotated in a later hand as “1928, on arrival from Greece, November?” |
