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Written from the Savoy Hotel, Luxor [where John was recuperating from a knee injury after the end of the Armant excavation]. Telling Herbert that he and Hilda [Pendlebury] planned to travel to Amarna in a week; about [Stephen Glanville’s encouragement for John to work for the British Museum] being useful leverage for securing archaeological jobs [in Greece]; that he had written to [Arthur] Cook about the Walston studentship [from Cambridge University]; and about [Arthur] Woodward leaving Athens [and his Directorship of the BSA] so there could be more opportunities (“there may possibly be a stop to the discouragement of the young”). Also mentions that he and Hilda were planning on travelling to Rhodes on the 9th of Apr [1929] and then to Athens; they had written to Jim [?] and got no reply; that Seth Smith [John’s doctor] wished to be remembered to Herbert; and that he was glad about Robin’s [John’s step-brother] certificate and asks Herbert to congratulate him and “hit him over the head for me! also Derek”. Undated, annotated in a later hand as “Jan 1929”. |
