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Sent from Knossos. Telling Herbert about organising the house [Villa Ariadne], grounds and palace [of Minos], learning Greek business vocabulary and discouraging people from allowing their animals to go into the palace; also about a 3-day trip to Eastern Crete [with Humfry Payne and Miss Hartley]. Also telling Herbert that he had a “very mild” letter from [Henry] Hall [about John’s article ‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’] and suspected [Thomas] Peet had written to Hall; asking if a bill had arrived from [Cambridge University Press]; reminding Herbert to send a cutting from ‘The Morning Post’ newspaper and asking if he finds anyone with spare copies of archaeological, topographical or classical books to get them to send them for the Knossos library; and mentioning that the weather was hot and [Arthur] Evans was to arrive on the 10th [of April]. |
