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Show PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON NEW JERSEY Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures c February $, 19$1 Dr. Aziz S. Atiya The Library of Congress Washington 2$, D. C. Dear Dr. Atiya: Here is the program for your visit subject to your approval• .'. Take the 8 a.m. train from Washington Wednesday, February 28th, to Princeton Junction, changing at Trenton, New Jersey, 11:06. My wife will meet you at Princeton Junction at 11:22 and bring you to the Princeton Inn, where we have reserved room for you and Mrs. Atiya. Professor Henry Savage, who is interested in the Crusades, extends an invitation to you for lunch Wednesday at 1 p.m. My wife will take care of Mrs. Atiya. Wednesday at $ p.m. your first lecture will be given in the Social Science Lounge of the 1 ires tone Library on "The Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai." xhat evening the first lecture on "The Crusades: Old Conceptions and New Ideas" will be given in the same room under the chairmanship of Professor Joseph Strayer, head of the Department of History. Thursday you will be free to visit our collection of manuscripts and any classes you wish. At noon Wednesday we shall have a little lunch together in the Faculty Lunch Room. Thursday evening at 8 p.m. you will give your second lecture on the Crusades in the same room. If you need any maps or boards, let us know. We are all looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to seeing you and hearing you. Cordially yours, Philip K. Hitti PKH:mjd |