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Sent from Knossos. Telling Herbert about progress on the excavation and finds including a flight of crimson steps; that he was busy at Knossos as [Piet] de Jong had just left so John was doing his work too, as well as supervising reconstruction and running the excavation, so he didn’t have time to continue sorting and housing pottery that year. Also thanking Herbert for information about service flats in London and saying they would get one [in the summer]; apologising for the “tone” of a telegram he had sent to Herbert; discussing United Kingdom income tax; asking Herbert not to send [books by] Wilamowitz and Myres as he would read them when he was home; complaining about new procedures by the Greek post office which would slow-down delivery times; and thanking Herbert for sending out [copies of ‘Aegyptiaca’ to others] and wondering why Keynes Smith had not received his copy (as he was on a list John had given [Cambridge University Press]). |
