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Show 6'.*/8 January 13, 1951 L > i a- a . /1 • nMrJ Alan Bowe, lecturer is the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts ii$.verslty of ianehester Manchester, England i • ' ' • - ' • > • ' - •• liear Eowei / foa will see by this my whereabouts daring the present //academic session, ffy time is divided between a Qonsultantship , to til© Library of Congress and a Tisiilng Professorship in Some American universities. A couple of days ago, 1 was on visit of Professor W. F, j Albright in Baltimore, and your name case up in the course of | conversation as you know I shall never forget you. So, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that he followed the develop-aents in your career and he told me of your appointment as archaeology lecturer in Manchester, lothing in the world has pleased me as isnch as this, and I am writing at once to congratulate you from the bottom of my Heart, I have no doubt that your services will be highly appreciated there. I do not know whether you have been informed about my Mt. Sinai Expedition jointly with the Library of Congress during last year. the aim of the Expedition was to microfilm the manuscripts of the Library of the Monastery of St. Catherine. This we nave done, and almost a million folios of manuscripts in twelve languages have been microfilmed, I am now editing the Arable collection for the Congress Library. In addition to this work, I have made several first class discoveries of which it is not easy to speak here. The subject is far to© extensive for a single letter. However, the world press has said enough about them, and I am actually writing several pamphlets and volumes on my work. I have had a deluge of invitations to lecture on these discoveries from universities in 8.3,A., Canada, England, Switzerland, etc. From England, I have been invited by Oxford, Liverpool and Leeds. It is possible that I could give these lectures at the beginning of the |