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Show As from 2A Bruce Avenue, p.. Prestwick, Scotland. 51st July, 1951 My clear Dr Atiya, Very many thanks for your letter. Weare sorry and disappoint ed that you are not able to come and lecture to us this autumn. I think your Farouk University has been a little unkind to our British Universities, but as you mention that you have been recalled on urgent business by your Education Minister, JM we shall have to acquiesce. However, I hope, as you say, that the visit is only postponed. . . . _ . , , I am very glad to hear that your work is to be published in the 0.S.G.O. I look forward very much to seeing it in print. Is there any hope at all of my getting some more photographs of the old Peshitta palimpsest to decipher} I have been asked to Rive a communication on a Syriac theme to the Conference on Patristic Studies meeting in Oxford in late September. I have meantime given as a subject'Codex Phillipps 1388 and the - Peshitta* (Codex Phillipps is our oldest Peshitta text up-to-da^e). I should have been very pleased,however,if I could have said something at thesame time on the Peshitta text in Codex Arabicus. All I need is about 20-30 decipherable photographs, and I should he able without difficulty to tell whether it is on internal evidence as old as its ductus suggests. I hope we shall keen in touch and that all goes well with you and that you have a good' holiday in Switzerland. Please note that our address in Leeds after Sept. 1st will be: 44 Headingley Mount, Leeds, 6. With all kind regards, Yours sincerely, fy^j^^i^ |