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Show January 16, 1951 Professor Philip K. Hitti Princeton University Princeton, M M Jersey Dear Professor Hitti: I have not written to you before now to announce our safe arrive! in your great country at the beginning of this month as I happened to know that you were one of our guests of honor in the Cairo University celebrations. I hope ray information in this respect is correct. I should have liked to be there to welcome you personally in Egypt, but ay wife and I had left in the early deys of December 19£0 and spent a couple of weeks in Europe on the way to U.S.A. We sre hsppily settled in Washington and I have starred the tremendous *ork ahead of me In the microfilms of Mt. Sinai. This is scheduled to take about three months which means very herd, but interesting, work. When I have the privilege and pleasure of meeting you at Princeton, I should like to teke your advic© on many aspects of the editing of these microfilms. As to my three lectures at Princeton, I shall be at your disposal during the second half of February, and I shall wait upon your instructions in this connection. With my cordial good wishes, lours very sincerely, Aziz S. Atiya |