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Show 13, Sharia Mariette Pasha, Cairo (Sgypt), July 28, 1950. Dear Professor Hitti, . Thank you for your kind and gratifying letter of July 12. I do indeed look forward to my forthcoming visit to America and in particular to meeting you in person. It is needless for me to say how high I hold your great works in esteem and I consider it a pleasure and a privilege to fee enabled to give some lectures in your Institute. Your suggestions as to the subject it my lectures are very appropriate. I-am actua^^^^eparing a course of three lectures entitled: ~ "THS CRUSAEKSi oHJ CONCEPTIONS AND NEW IMSAS". This will embody my experience and my work during the last quarter of a century. I trust that the students of Arabic and of History will fee able to reap some benefit from these lectures/- In regard to the public lecture, I am of course" open to ®ny suggestion! but 1 feel that a lecture on tha Monastery of {ft. Catherine, its Library and my latest discoveries in its Manuscript Gollecti#»» with lantern slide illustrations would be of general interest. As these discoveries were made- mniier American auspices, it seems natural that Americana should fee informed about them. At any rate, I am at your disposal and I shall fee only too glad to fall in with your instructions on this matter. I wish you a rery restful holiday. I myself intend to take « few weeks in the mountains of Cyprus and probably the Lebanon for recuperation from the exceptionally toilsome mcnthn in lit. Sinai, . With my best respects and warmest salaams. Believe ma, . v®ry sincerely yours,,-" Aziz S. Atiya Professor-Philip K. Hitti, Princeton University, Princeton, Bew Jersey, |