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Show r • * / 24 lH Sharia Wadi el-~il. Kaadi (Hear Cairo}* Egypt, March 20, 1952. My dear Profe^or Hitti, This is to thank you cordially for both your letters of last February. I will of course let you have a copy of my .arable review of the History of Syria and shall send another directly to !facialilanfs in London, It may? however* be some time before the next number of the Bulletin of our Royal Historical Society appears. As to your kind invitation to me to send any remarks on this Magnum Opus, believe me I have nothing but appreciation and admiration for this grand achievement which only Hitti could undertake with such mastery. I do not wish to pay you any compliments, but 1 mean to make a genuine statement of my impression. I look forward to receiving your lectures at Sao Paolo which I shall circulate among some of my colleagues before niacin? them on the shelves of the University Library. The prospectus of the Hear mt*% Atlas has reached me with its covering letter, and I am very happy to collaborate with you on the Advisory Committee in which yon were good enough to include my name. This is a very fine aroject and it will undoubtedly fill a lacuna in our literature. Could you please convey my acceptance to the persons concern©*^ Z shall try to contact Hassan Awad of the Royal Geographical Society for joint service and advice. My wife, who never stops talking about America and Princeton, joins me in sending you and all yours our most cordial salaams. Yours most sincerelyf Asis S. Atiya |