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Written from Aswan, where Hilda and John were staying before travelling to Amarna. About staying at the Hotel Cataract, having visited Elephantine island [Jazїrat] and been sailing, and plans to visit Philae, the [Aswan Low] Dam and quarries [of Aswan]. Also telling Herbert: that his knee was nearly better; that [Stephen] Glanville had written to [Hans] Frankfort about hieroglyphics [found at Armant] which named the Roman Emperor Diocletian, and asking if Diocletian had another name like Nero; that he thought his “bluff” of pretending he may accept a job at the [British Museum] would have worked in soliciting job offers from [Stephen] Glanville and [Arthur] Evans to continue working in Egypt and Crete; that learning Egyptian was going well; about the weather having been cold all winter; and that he was pleased that Robin [his step brother] had been made a prefect [at school]. Undated, annotated in a later hand as “Feb? 1929”. |
