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Show 5" '. 2, i I 9"* PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON NEW JERSEY Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures >Wh^V^- r «r . " -A. x» Jll^ Princeton University Princeton, Hew Jersey June £, 1951 Mr. Daniel Macmillan Macmillan and Company, Ltd. St* Martin's Street London W$ C. 2, England Dear Mr* Maemillani I have received a request fro® Dr* A* S. Atiya, Professor of Medieval History and head of the Department of History in Farouk University, for a copy of my History of Syria to be reviewed by M a in the Journal of the Hoyal His^EorlcaT" Society of Egypt* The editor of the' Journal has already asked him to make an extensive review of this book* Professor Atiya studied and lectured in England and Germany and is the author of two standard works dealing with the later crusades. I should be grateful if you would send him a review copy to this address i Professor A, 3. Atiya, 13 Sharia Mariette Pasha, Cairo, Egypt. A very gratifying review appeared in the lew York Herald Tribune of last Sunday, covering a large part of a page and reproducing two illustrations. It w;* written by Professor Samuel Chew of Bryn i»S% I am assuming that you re» ceived a copy from your Hew York company* Otherwise, please let me know and I will see that you get one. I am still working on the index of the fifth edition o f t h a History of the Arabs. Proofs have been coming very slowly. I may go W 1 M H B this summer and would very much like to dear the Index before I leave. Sincerely yours* PKHtHH Philip I* Hitti cc - Professor A* S* Atiya |