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Show ih, Sharia V/adi.el-I!il, ]raadi (""ear Cairo) • Drtypt, Ky dear Dr. Shelni&itte, -•We continued to follow your news • and movements, through our 'mutual friends at Tacoma until your welcome letter arrived at long last from Puerto Rico, We have looked up some of our illustrated, travel literature in order to visualize this romantic sounding country. . Both of us however appear to.be still convinced. that Tacoma'and Koimt .Bainier by far take ths lea4, and 1 idsh you a happy return to your charming'.old quarters. -::;i 1 agree:with you that lots of water has run over the das. 'it Is difficult to .know' where to begin and what to say*. Perhaps the most pleasant tiling that happened since our departure frrpi pour admirable country was Our reunion with our- children"'in Switzerland where, as you probably remember* I was Visiting Professor at Zurich tlr-ivorsity an-the Swiss Institute of International Studies for the Sworner Semester. After fulfilling-my obligations| we drove with them through four-or five countries in western Europe to show, them .round before sailing back home. In Egypt, 1 began very badly, but all's well th t -pis well. I ..survived, a series1 of operations and was finallv able to resume my literary activities','. Hitherto I have finished seven manors of which you will read one. in the Transactions of the American" Philosophical Society and another smaller item in the Speculum, In a tew days, too, I shall send-a volume, on the lit. Sinai Arabic I'ierofilms for publication by the Library-of Congress. The "greater Catalogue Iteisonne'lii.about a thousand pages will, it is hoped be completed this summer for the Corpus Christianorum Orlentalium in Lonvain* I have- before me about six other volumes of varying dimensions as good as ready, one of" thorn be pan as early as 1929- apft$ another in 1930, all awaiting their turns in the coming year or years. -We; are 'planning to spend the sumner in. Cyoriu. whore I can retire to-a mountain pealt 'to pursue my work uninterruptedly while-my wife and E.ie children go pic Clicking in the rlchCypriot forests.. You probably wonder -diethor- I have left .Alexandria, 'The answer is yes and no, I am still keeping my job irr Alexandria where t pc for my weekly lectures,"Uut we have decided to ... ttle down here in ..his beautiful suburb of Cairo partly for, the children.who are happier here and partly for me to reach more libraries in Cairo, isi have built a -"Use with a fair size garden for -the cliildren UP" ellctb_d c Idp room •with an annex for my own.library wMal. consists mainly of 3,000" npppcripts with numerous jewels,; Tn&ne have been accumulating over manv vears'of • hard search, seleetiorPand spending. This collection is perhaps the . biggest remaining in private hands. It is becoming a white: -lephant and sooner or later I shall have, to find a Suitable homo for it" other than my own where.a batallion of scholars will find food for many years of hard toll* - -....' The political-'situation here, t'-'o*^_i under control nt presents is still nefarious.on all sides, thanks to the ineenulty of politicians in mucking up world affairs, Ihose history makers are not the best folks. BkCionmddm ?iys osuiS ohmnee af rot riom efth ,ea3. 3w:n0re iIwt irOnehgcee siovefeo d t honefe fwtsseh coohofnti mccyaal le lanedcd t 'itCohunel t iuInrn ataleb rHsiensnattoiiaroy na asolf Man |