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Show Baltimore, 22nd June,•1950 Professor A.S. Atiya, Cairo, Egypt. Dear Friend, Yours of the 28th Lay was received, and I was delighted to know that you will now be able to come to this country. The news about the progress of work at the Monastery and the increasing importance of the Arabic collection is very encouraging indeed. I am certainly glad that there is a new atmosphere there since Clark left and that, all is smooth now. I, too, found Clark "hard to take," but there can be no denying his mechanical efficiency, which haa^made it possible - thanks to your'invaluable aid - to get an astonishing amount of microfilming done for the Library of Congress,.both in Sinai and in Jerusalem. Without your continued assistance Clark would naturally have been undble to get anything done, but with it his own terrific drive came into play. I am happy to .know that the work is virtually finished without blowing up in the middle, as I had feared. : As I -rote you in Mity, I have written to various scholars about your availability for lectures - notably to Kraeling in Chicago and Hitti in Princeton. Since then I have had a long talk with Carl Kraeling during a recent visit to Chicago, and I have discussed the Sinai situation with him at great length. He has already been in touch with the history people/there and expects to come up with one or more lectures for you. I shall be here all summer, Deo volente, except for ten days to two weeks between the 25th July and the 10th August. Thsseo of my sons graduated from various institutions earlier this month: Paul got his B.A. from ueorgetownUniversity in Washington, where he had attended the Foreign Service School since discharge from the amy, following five years of service; Hugh received another B.A. from the Catholic University in Washington, graduating at the head of the class, summa cum laude (he is the Christian Mother); David graduated from Calvert Hall (Catholic high school) and begins four years studying agricultu] at Cornell University in the autumn. One other boy, Stephen, who has a year more of college, will probably be in Baltimore through the summer. I heard again from Sjahle a few days ago| he is going to attend j some of the European meetings, and anniversaries this summer. He shows as much energy as ever, and now that his scope for politics is so reduced the quality of his scholarly work has risen. I should have^liked to attei some'of these meetings and toj have accepted various invitations for lec-tur s on the Continent, but I. have been away from my desk altogether too much during the past two ;and a half years. Looking forward to .hearing soon about your plans and to having you and Mine. Atiya as our guests before, long, I am, Cordially, |
