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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/8/18
Level Item
Dates Undated [Mar 1929]
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Sent from Amarna, Egypt. Telling Herbert about the excavation and that it seemed he and Hilda wouldn’t [be sent to look for the tomb of Smenkara, as had been mentioned before], a statuette they had found, that Hall had promised to write the preface [to ‘Aegyptiaca’], about an inscription that [Alan] Shorter had found turning out to read “you big stiff”, and asking Herbert to get Scripta Minoa and other books on sites in Crete or Greece and on Aeges Egyptian connections. Annotated in a later hand as “March”.