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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/8/11
Level Item
Dates Undated [Jan 1929]
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content [Sent from Savoy Hotel, Luxor]. Telling Herbert about his damaged knee, that they hoped to get back to Greece by the middle of April and were looking forward to seeing Herbert and Dickie [in Greece], and saying he had heard from Charles Seltman who was trying to discourage John from working with the [British Museum]. John writes that he was using [the job offer from Stephen Glanville to work for the British Museum] as a lever [to get other job offers], which he thought would work. Annotated in a later hand as “Luxor, Savoy Hotel, January”.