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Show T H E JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE 18, MARYLAND ORIENTAL SEMINARY November 3, i960 Professor Aziz S. Atiya Center for Intercultural Studies University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Professor Atiya: Many thanks for your kind letter of October 19, which arrived while I was in the middle of a lecture trip in Georgia and Virginia, from which I returned a week ago. Unfortunately, my score of lectures in a dozen institutions rather tired me so I have been slow in attending to my correspondence. I am naturally delighted at the prospect of being able to see you again if you happen to be in Utah at the time. I do hope, however, that your plans can be carried out since you must have a tremendous number of accumulated obligations in the Middle East. I should like to congratulate you with enthusiasm on your publication record, which is far superior to mine during the past few years. In fact, I am inclined to think that you may have been able to do more publication than if you had been in Egypt during this period since there are so many pressing calls on you there. I am hoping only that I shall be able to get through the next two years without too much strain so that I can settle down quietly to writing. I am far behind in my publication schedule. I am writing to Professor Read giving him my suggestions for titles for my course and the public lectures which he requested. I went up to New York to attend the last meeting there of Wendell's Foundation, but the train was two hours late and I arrived just after the meeting had broken up. I spent the evening and next morning with Wendell and with Bill and Gladys Terry^ so was brought up to date on his activities. Incidentally, if you do not have his new office address, here it is: 2ii00 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii. Everything, including his secretary, has been moved from New York to Hawaii from where he plans to direct his future activities both in business and in scholarship. I gather that he is now worth several million dollars, but I am also quite certain that between taxes and his constantly increasing activities he is rather oil poor. Bill and Gladys have now thrown in their lot with him; Bill is proving to be a great success in business organization and his aid and advice are invaluable to Wendell. But the scholar's life is far preferable to the "alarums and excursions" which a career like Wendell's entails^ z%\$l% A |