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Show 2-3 f C*/^ Ik Sharia Wadi el-Hll, Maadi - Cairo, Esyrrt, March 26, 1953. My dear Wendellt Thank you so much for your very gratifying letter of March 16 and •for the beautiful Album of the Yemenite Expedition which I shall be glad to circulate amongst friends interested in your work and in the achievements of your Foundation. Now, to save your time, I shall tabulate the items under review in the following, 1. Please send me a mere short letter from Commander Wendell Phillips Dodge addressed to the Secretary General of the Royal Geographical Society asking for enrolment as a member and I shall take care of both the election and the subscription, I am also prepared to furnish him with a similar certificate, should you like me to do so. Tnere is'no special application forms and all I need is a letter. 2# Fakhry has not yet sent the Yemen publications, dru^urther enquiry, I am made to understand that they cinsist of three monumental volumes published by the Department of Antiquities and are pretty costly. Fakhry is responsible for only one of these volumes. Perhaps all these circumstances may help to explain his protracted silence. Now I have a suggestion to make which may procure for us these volumes free of charge| otherwise I shall buy them myself and send them. Could you write to Mustapha Amer as Director General of the Depaitment of Antiquities in the Egyptian Museum (Cairo) and ask him on behalf of the Foundation to let you have these volumes in exchange with your forthcoming publications? in the meantime sending him a couple of the Albums for himself and the Antiquities Library? If this works, all well and good. If it does not, Ij^shall of course pay the price of the requested publications and. have^cfespatched. Meanwhile," I hope to see Amer and try to fix this matter with him. 3, Many thanks for attending to the Medieval Academy subscription on my behalf. As you have kindly suggested, I shall not hesitate in making further requests for items which I cannot procure on account of currency difficulties, and 1 shall begin at once to avail myself of your hospitality. I badly and rather urgently need the two bocks whose particulars I have typed out on the enclosed slip. Perhaps you could ask Eileen to order them for me and have them sent as nrinted material under registered cover to avoid losing them on the way tc my address. Many thanks in anticipation. J] h* I was quite interested in your deliberations with Mr. Verner Clapp and I shall 'look forward to knowing what he has ir mind. Personally speaking, I believe I can do mere for the Library of Congress than anybody else in these parts; and, as you may have already remarked, I like rendering services to scholarly organizations. The only thing objectionable to my temperament is to offer myself which does not appear compatible with my standing. ' But once I receive an offer, it will be my pleasure to give it serious consideration. When you see Dr. Bvans, please convey to him and also to Mr. Clapp my personal regards. m?im.n XiT t-he el yd apotset poofn etdr ifeo rM idicfrfoifciullmt yp rteos geentt aatlilo nt hcee rtoepm opneyo pilse sati olnle iannd ef |