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

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/3/1/10/20
Level Item
Dates Sunday, May 11, 1930
Donor/Creator Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
Scope and Content Sent from Knossos. About progress on excavations, and telling Herbert that Kosti [Chronakis] had been ill, Arthur [Evans] had been buying a lot of furnishings for the Taverna, and that [Spyridon Marinatos, Director of the Candia Museum] had resigned after a stern letter from the Ministry of Archaeology in Athens (related to accusing the BSA of trying to buy vases). Also mentioning offprints from the [Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, of his article ‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’], and that he would be back in the United Kingdom from the beginning or middle of July.