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Show January 16, 195>3 $/.?:]/(r0 .pMjessor A. S. Atiya /k". lJ*'Jlnaria>'i$adi el-Nil -R . >•!• Ma^i:-(neaf fcairo), Egypt/" ">" Dear,Professor Atiya: The reprints you kindly sent me are here and I have read them with a great deal of interest. I did not know much about the rise of monasticism in Egypt. Thank you very much indeed. We*are" now .getting ready for the final exams. We have had recently two gifts for our Program,- one of which is a bequest from the estate of John Garrett, former Ambassador to Italy, in-the amount of $200,000 for establishing a chair in foreign affairs5 and another in the amount of 1^0,000 from the Dodge Foundation. Warm salams to you and to your good wife and to all friends. /" A/Aj'yj Sincerely yours, -2? Philip K. Hitti PKH:jtp |