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Sent from Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo. Mainly about the end of the excavation at Amarna, and a wall painting that John and Hilda had found in the Eastern Village (excavated 1922), Hilda had traced and would be probably be in an exhibition in July. Also telling Herbert they had arrived safely from Amarna and were leaving for Greece the next day; that Lionel and Kathleen [Hargreaves, John’s cousin] were going to have dinner with them that evening; that they had a nice send off from [Hans and Jettie] Frankfort; that they had been to see new finds from Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Cairo museum; and that John hoped the MSS [manuscript of ‘Aegyptiaca’] had arrived. |
