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Show Hareh 2% 1951 rrofessor U&llaa. fhospeon* Bead of the Oepturtatst of Oriental Languages* Harvard University Oaahridge* McuMaerusett8 J$r dear Professor Tfronptom May 1 thank you cordially for your gratifying letter of Metrah 23.* 1 was partieularly pleased to have itf and I should like tfl> say that ny visit to Harvard is aartalnly a great lainV BBXk in ay eareeri sina® It 1ms given the splendid opporto&ty of raaklng the personal aaquaintanaa of euoh an esatasnt seholar as yourself* 1 would have willingly travelled across the whole Continent In order to realise this one hope* On the other hand, I wxet say that the audience at ay lecture was perfectly satisfactory, sine© it consisted of intelligent and interested persons who war© ©agar to laam something* I trust that 1 have been able to give then sose wholesome food fay thought* Rykl hag wrlttto. so a vary idea letter, and 1 agree that the Moorish a spaa t of th# Crusade should get sore attention from crusading scholars. I will examine his contributions In this fiaM and giva hia due reference • in future* I hav© written to Fuad Abase Pasha, the President of the Royal Agricultural Society, to lat you have a copy of ny ibn Masmti even though the sale of the book is classed* 1 pointed out the iaaportanee of the fdfojeet in view both for the fook and for the Society* Ken-* ever, if the hook 1© completely and raaHy out of print, 1 shall not fall to sand you one of my own few copies left at ham, though this ^111 have to be late in the Autusan* . I aentloned our meeting to Professor Slbb and 1 have already* heard from hia* Ha is inviting me to a lecture at Oxford towards the beginning of. the next academic ®eeei©»» 1 hope to oosibi.no this with a lecture tour to Liverpool* Manchester and Leeds, for which 1 have already received farther invitations* By the nay, 1 have spofeen to our Ambassador about your prefect of developing Hear Eastern Studio© at Harvard, and I shall repeat with Dr* faha Hussein on w$ homeward return* The subjeat is arousing a |