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Show March 8* 1951 Prof. Iyle S, Shels&dine Chm, Dept, of History Collage of Fuget Sound Tacena 6, Washington Dsar Professor Shelmidiim Let ma thank you for your letter of March 5. With regard t© back ausfeers of our Quarterly, I d© not knew ©f say eo^Oste sat thai is available for purchase, it ©igfri be feat an advertisement for a complete set placed in the magazine would bring an offer to yon. We have on hand about seventy different issues that ws could supply, some of fees foisting complete voltes. Those issued before l$bO are sold at 2&1 each plus postage, and those from 19W on at $0$ each postpaid. If your library wishes to receive them, I would recommend an early order because some of the issues are quite short la supply and we are receiving requests for them frecently. The saine mail feat breu^it your letter also brought a similar request for back nmfcers. Our school has the privilege today to hear a lecture fro® Prof. A. S# *??? ®l Faro*& I University at Alexandria, Egypt, He is, as you tow, one of the foremost historians of the Crusades, m has, daring the last year, been examining fee archives of St. Catherine's Monastery at Kt. Sinai. His expedition discovered nearly a itiiiian folios of exceedingly valuable material both historical and scriptural in the archives of the maaastary and made microfilms of his finds. He is now working at the Library of Congress for the identification of the folios. Amongst the materials are pali^sests that n±U make imperative new traaslaticiis of portions of the Bible, repeating, it appears to me, in ispsrtance, the work of Ticbendbrf. Prof , Atiya is rather expecting to go out to the Pacific coast in April and May and would be available for addresses in case your college would be interested* f^irhaps a group of institutions in your area would like to cooperate in securing M B for lectures. He say be addressed at the Library of eoagress ia msMngton, %ai your letter should mention the lectures I gave at Princeton so long ago is imry flattering. life best wishes, I am Tours sincerely, BK^p Sds&n S, Calverley EDITOB |
