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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/8/19
Level Item
Dates [Mar 1929]
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Written from Amarna [Egyptian Exploration Society excavation] and the end of the excavation season. About John’s application for the Macmillan studentship at the BSA and plans to apply for the Hare prize [from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics]; asking Herbert to get an enclosed (not present) manuscript [of John’s ‘Aegyptiaca’] typed and sent to [Henry] Hall at the British Museum, and to get books for John. Also details plans for travelling from Egypt to Greece, and tells Herbert he has written to Will [?] about Chiltern. Undated, annotated in a later hand as “March 1929”.