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Show 13 \ % IZ3 September 1977 Dear s,3 eoA\trejx^ MJJUUMJK.. \v, Yv"u_~ ^w&^7' I*JA*-. Forgive this Xerox. At this time, there seems no other way of expressing my interest in relatives and friends. Among my important tasks still to be accomplished is the editing of Myron's incomplete manuscript, including the arrangement of explanatory diagrams and drawings, made under the direction of his Turkish friend, Professor Dugan Kuban. The final step, of course, will be finding the publisher. The Freer Gallery of Art has prepared a place for Myron's Islamic Archives next to the papers of Ernst Herzfelt, the great historian, whose work was largely devoted to the ancient and pre-Islamic periods of the Near East. By the time you receive this letter the actual move of The Archives to the Freer will have been completed. I have offered to give Myron's books on the Near East to the Freer. Those which the Freer already possesses will go the Middle East Institute. The Institute sent a young librarian here, to type a list of appropriate volumes and reprints so that the Institute Directors might make their selection. He was told the stint might take a couple of hours but it turned out to be a three days' task. This list is now being checked against the Institute's holdings. Recently I wrote to Bill Sands, Editor of the Middle East Journal (published by the Institute) to find out if the institute would like to have 12 small, charming pastels by an Egyptian artist which Myron bought in Cairo in the late sixties. They could be sold for the benefit of the Institute. Bill is coming to see them. Finding a suitable place for Myron's ashes and arranging for a memorial service are also on the agenda. My first thought was to scatter the ashes in the courtyard of the Masjid-Juma (Friday Mosque in Isfahan) where Myron spent so much time during the four years when, on a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, he was studying Persia's Islamic Architecture. In regard to the memorial service, as I recall, Edwin Wright promised to officiate, but throught indolence, timidity and not knowing just how to go about the arrangements, this service has been inexcusably delayed. |
