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Show • 4 Telephone: District 3395 Cable Address: ACOLS American Council of Learned Societies MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ACADEMIES 1219 SIXTEENTH STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON 6, D. C. September 20, 195>0 Mr. Aziz S. Atiya 13 Sharia Mariette Pasha Cairo, Egypt Dear Dr. Atiyat Needless to say we are all highly delighted at the prospects held out in your letter of June 2k - which of course, I should have answered long ago. I have been in Washington but little this past year; my work has kept me on the road much of the time and my correspondence, excepting that which necessitated some immediate decisions, has fallen much behind. I have not seen Albright since his treturn, but from other sources, I have heard much of your extraordinary findings. I am sure that as soon as you get here you will be overwhelmed with social attentions of all sorts. We hope that you will not be too occupied to permit us to pay you some slight attentions. Abd es-Salaam and I had one lovely day here together as he passed through on his way to the Mayo Clinic; I took him to the three major monuments of one of our major architects, Paul Cret, all built at about fifteen years' intervals in his career and exhibiting his development,- or his retrogression whichever you care to call it. He seemed to enjoy the day very much, thou^i I suppose he was worried. We had arranged that he way to stay at my home on his return in October. Of course, his death, - of which I did not hear until sometime after it had happened - was a great shock to all of us. Cordially yours, Mortimer Gravej Administrative Secretary !G:pe American Philosophical Society, 1727; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780; American Antiquarian Society, 1812; American Oriental Society, 7842; American Numismatic Society, i8j8; American Philological Association, i86g; Archaeological Institute of America, iSfg; Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1880; Modern Language Association of America, 188J; American Historical Association, 1884; American Economic Association, l88j; American Folklore Society, 1888; American Philosophical Association, igoo; American Anthropological Association, igo2; American Political Science Association, igoj; Bibliographical Society of America, ig04; Association of American Geographers, ig04; American Sociological Society, 190J; American Society of International Laiu, igo6; College Art Association of America, igilj History of Science Society, 1924; Linguistic Society of America, 1924; Mediae-val Academy of America, 1925; American Society for Aesthetics, 1942. |