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Show '''• r p *.-/-'. p '" **'" iff **- Correipohding fember to the Cofraai^sion. I believe that they want to issue a monumental work which may be fnstrumental in creating an intellectual rapprochement among the nations ..of--.-the worId, I hope that they will not ask me to write one of its volumes and that my services will begin and epd with advice and criticism, My hands are so very full for some two years at least. I trust that you are continuing with the final stages of your magnum opus on Hear Eastern History* I have mentioned it on cover al occasions in several circles inside and outside Bgypt. I am sorry the Fullbright people did not have the sense to choose you auoiagst their emissaries to the Fear Bast, When you feel like an exchange for a. yoar^ .however, thld I can perhaps arrange with someone in Egypt, Perhaps poll may prefer Turkey, but I should'like to have you for 3gypt. In Alexandria, wo have tiis year'a modern-historian from Michigan State University "by the "name of Austin Moore#. From the other Michigan University, we have had the pleasure of meeting and. entertaining sen eminent ...Greco-Roman .historian by the name of Professor Arthur Boak ^ %-Tho srpent a few months here with, Ids wife. My wife and I try to do W whatever we can to, make the stay of our American friends in Egypt a pleasant eite. , Ifefertunately we have not had the.chance to do any tiling for your friend Krs, Sarah FraJQ|B Day* ¥e have not heard from her and we do not .know whether she has yet been through Bgypt, I wish we coUld "meet'her*'"';k . p /•-.:'. .:./'\ .; •.'•••."_._-.'' pppkM. •?•.- Ity wife and I have never stopped talking about America and our America?! friends .across the Atlantic and- faore: especially on the shores of the Pacific. We are living in the hope' of seeing America again and •for. a. longer period,- this time with our. children, whom, we -want to In-"' itiate there one of these days* America which corresponded to the end -of the world, in our Imagination is no more a remote and inaccessible w&rld for our present- frame -of mind, -it has become such part and parcel of our everyday life and thought. I could not have envisaged ' these developments two or three yr. ?rs ago* I .expect I have said enough for-the nonce in this; rather; turgid " .... epistle, 1/e sincerely hope that you will.-have the time and inclination to write even longer letters In future. On my part, I-shall not f a l l " in mailing up for lost time as I have done now* M *. ; fly wife joins me in sending.you,our kindest remembrances and our very best wishes. ', . • * - ' " * - Very Sincerely Yours, - •• Aziz-: BA - Atiya. |