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Show 23 '<r//3 '•O™ November 6, 1959 My dear Kurt: We were of course very haopy with the receipt of your good letter of October 29 which has kept us up-to-date with your news. It is needless to say how much you and Josepha have been in our thought, although the harassing circumstances of adjusting to a new environment and a new position with all manner of implications has forced us to slow down in correspondence with our friends. At last, I can say that we are straightening up with a suitable house where I hope one day we shall receive you, while the children are happily settled in their new schools, and I am making tangible progress with the new Center. OB the whole, we are being met here with considerable support and enthusiasm. Even the physical climate has been quite clement t cooler than the east in the summer and hitherto rather sunny with only one short-lived snowfall this winter. I am glad to know that you had a successful lecture season at Northwestern and I shall look forward to the publication of the series which will be a herald to the Nonumenta Sinaitica. It was also fine to be able to confer with George at .Ann Arbor on the schedule of the next season, September to the end of November is a good period and I am certain that your stay there will be both agreeable and profitable. Afterwards it is bound to become bitterly cold at times, and stove heating and warm clothing become a dire necessity. It will indeed be fine to hear from George in due course. 1 trust that his morale is now much better, although I presume that he must be facing another source of anxiety of a public character In connection with the financial difficulties of the whole State. Regarding the specific problem you have mentioned, however, I can tell you at once that the donation to the Archbishop of $1000 should be quite acceptable, providing that you will - I am sure - not forget the Monastery fathers with some gifts such as those of last year. If you would like me to relieve you from the unpleasantness of the business of writing yourselves on this rather delicate point, I shall be happy to write him myself announcing the forthcoming season of your Expedition and inform him that you have agreed to repeat the same subsidy as before. I leave this to your judgment, and I can only offer my services as an intimate friend of both parties. Do send your instructions at your convenience after consulting with George and 1 shall comply with them. Our chances of corning east are as great as yours of corning west at the present time. However, if ever amy unforeseen circumstances bring us to the east at any time, we shall never forego the pleasure of visiting We are rumi naPtriinngc etaobnou tj ustthe t osu hmamveer an gdl ihmopisneg ofth aytou itan dwi lJlos ebpeh ap.os sible |