Title |
Correspondences dated 1949-1950 regarding Mount Sinai manuscript project commencement |
Alternative Title |
0480_023_005_Library_Of_Congress_Stapled_Set_03 |
Creator |
Phillips, Wendell, 1921-; Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, 1926-1968; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981; Clapp, Verner W. (Verner Warren), 1901-1972; Draguet, René |
Contributor |
Phillips, Wendell, 1921-; Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981; Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1950-01-03; 1949-08-27; 1949-11-04; 1949-11-21; 1949-08-23; 1949-11-30 |
Temporal Coverage |
1949; 1950 |
Spatial Coverage |
Washington (D.C.); Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium); Alexandria (Egypt) |
Subject |
Phillips, Wendell, 1921-; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981--Correspondence; Louvain. Université; Phillips, Wendell, 1921-; Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, 1926-1968; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981; Clapp, Verner W. (Verner Warren), 1901-1972; Draguet, René; Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971; Preservation; Funding; Monastery of Saint Catherine (Mount Sinai); Manuscripts; Archbishops; Library of Congress; Expeditions & surveys--1940-1950; Public relations |
Description |
Correspondences dated 1949-1950 regarding Mount Sinai Project commencement. Six documents, eight pages total. Correspondences are mainly between Dr. Atiya, Wendell Phillips, Archbishop Porphyrios III, and several other colleagues. Documents contain instructions for manuscripts, negotiations for the project's realization and funding, and letters of goodwill and thanks. The first document is written in French |
Table of Contents |
Correspondences dated 1949-1950 regarding Mount Sinai Project commencement. Six documents, eight pages total. Document one: Letter dated 3 Jan. 1950 from Prof. R. Draguet of the University of Louvain to William Albright containing news of other colleagues as well as instructions for manuscripts that are in Syriac, Georgian, Greek, and Arabic. Written in French. Document 2: Letter dated 27 Aug. 1949 from Wendell Phillips to Dr. Luther Evans concerning negotiations made between Dr. Atiya and Archbishop Porphyrios III for the realization of the Mount Sinai manuscript project. Document 3: Letter dated 4 Nov. 1949 from Dr. Evans to Dr. Atiya thanking him for his work and expressing hope to acquire the required monetary donation to the monastery. Document 4: Letter dated 21 Nov. 1949 from Dr. Atiya to Dr. Evans thanking him for his reply and for the chance to commence on the project. Document 5: Letter dated 23 Aug. 1949 at Cairo, from Archbishop Porphyrios III to Dr. Evans with the terms and conditions upon which the archbishop will allow the project to commence. Document 6: Letter dated 30 Nov. 1949 from Verner W. Clapp, Acting Librarian of Congress, to Dr. Atiya with news that final arrangements have been completed and the Mount Sinai manuscript photograph project will commence as planned |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
Correspondence |
Format |
application/pdf |
Collection Name |
0480_023_005 |
Collection Number and Name |
0480_023_005 Aziz Suryal Atiya Papers |
Language |
eng; fra |
Rights |
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Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99560 |
Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm |
Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya |
File Name |
0480_023_005_Library_Of_Congress_Stapled_Set_03.pdf |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6rn41kf |
Setname |
uum_asap |
ID |
780925 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn41kf |
Title |
Page 4 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show all of the necessary arrangements with regards to Customs, entrance of film etc. with the Egyptian Government. If you feel that it is possible to go ahead with this project, I would like to make the following suggestions : that you write an immediate letter to the Zrchbishop in reply to this letter of August 23rd thanking him for granting permission to photgraph all the manuscripts, then point out that the Library of Congress is a Government agency and operates on a strictly limited budget of Government Funds and something to the effect that your entire micrO-film budget does not come to the tremendous sum of L.10,000 however that it might be possible to make available through some means or other the sum of $10,000 to the Monastery. Further point out the fact that it costs many thousands of dollars to provide anyonewith xx a free copy of the photographs and that if it is necessary to give the Monastery copies of all the photographs when they have the originals themselves it will be in all probability necessary to drop the entire project, and please point out the fact that there are many other large expenses involved in this project. It is necessary to pay salaries to specialised personel, to transport men and equipment from America to Egypt, to bring moto* transportation and mechanics to keep it in operation, large quantities of motor fuel and supplies will be necessary as well as the great expenses involved for food, film generators and other miscellaneous expenses. Of course it is understood that many of the above expenses will be taken care of by myself through the American foudation for the study of Man. However it is still part of the project and although I have brought all this to the notice of the Archbishop it will mean much more coming from you written in French. I would appreciate it also if you would be good enough to reply KXKX directly to Professor Atiya in answer to his kind letter to you of August 24-th. Although I am certain that you are familiar with Professor Atiya' s published works as he is one of the world's foremost authorities on Medieval History, I am enclosing a little information with regard to fiis contributions. I am leaving Cairo for the States immediately on the first available transportation, going by way of the pacific so that I can stop off for a few days with my mother in California before coming East to report to you. The additional expenses involved over my direct return passage from Cairo to Washington will of course not be an expense to the Library of 6ongress. Please send me your immediate reactions to all of this to my home address in California where I should be in the next two weeks. Box 503, Route 3, CONCORD, California, U.S.A. Sincerely lours, Wendell Phillips. |
Setname |
uum_asap |
ID |
780920 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn41kf/780920 |