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[Sent from Armant excavation, Egypt]. Thanking Herbert for [a book by James Henry] Breasted; discussing a job prospect with the British Museum which [Hans] Frankfort thought John should accept it as he could walk away at any time, but that John had doubts about as he would have to work so hard at the language [Arabic or Ancient Egyptian?] that he wouldn’t be able to work in Greece, so was planning to use the offer [from Stephen Glanville] as a lever to secure a job in Greece with Arthur Evans; mentioning that he hoped Herbert had seen a report in the Telegraph [about the excavation at Armant] on 3 Jan which he had taken the photographs for using Uncle Stanley’s camera; telling Herbert about plans for the Perrins [Mr Dyson and family] to visit [Armant] that day and for he and Hilda to have dinner with them, his and Hilda’s plans to go to Kosseir and on to Amarna (where work would start on the 1st of Feb), and their plans for travelling back to Athens in Apr to meet Herbert and Dickie and then for them all to go to Crete, some islands and the mainland. Also mentioning that hockey sticks had been sent to the camp, that he wanted to know if Herbert had a list of illustrations that John wanted from [Arthur] Evans [for use in ‘Aegyptiaca’], and he wanted his typescript [of ‘Aegyptiaca’ back from S. C. [Roberts] in order to make corrections. Annotated in a later hand: “Jan. before knee trouble which prevented the Kosseir trip and kept John in bed at Savoy Hotel for a week or more”. |
