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Show 7 3'. I &/ , 19 February 1951 DREW UNIVERSITY Dear Dr. Atiya: I was delighted to receive your letter of January 29 -- more pleased than the tardiness of my reply would indicate. My delay in answering was in part the result of an unsuccessful effort on my part to arrange for an invitation to be issued to you to give an address here at Drew. When you wrote, the Dean was on a lecture tour in the Southwest. On his return, to my dismay, I found that the schedule of speakers for student convocations is already filled up into May. If I had known a month earlier that you were in the U.S., the invitation would most certainly have been issued. It is possible, however, that your schedule is already so full that it could not have been arranged. In any case, I am keenly disappointed, since I should have liked for the students here to have an opportunity to hear such a competent scholar from one of the renascent nations of the Near East, and particularly from one who is a member of one of the very oldest Christian communions. In regard to the color pictures of Sinai, I have many and would be happy to have them used. Not many magazines other than the National Geographic are able to reproduce engravings from 35mm. film, but perhaps *itcould be worked out. I have shots of the monastery, of the chapel on Gebel Musa, of the Wady-ed-Deir, of the Gebeliyeh, of you leaning against one of the trucks with the mountains as a backdrop. There are other views of the bell tower, of the entrance, and of the route from Suez, ^ou |
