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Show T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I NA CHAPEL HILL DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION April U, 1951 Dr. Aziz S. Atiya Library of Congress Washington 25, D. C. My dear Atiya: Many thanks indeed for your letter and the enclosures, we have engaged a room for you at the Carolina Inn. When you arrive in Chapel Hill, ask anyone where "the Inn" is and you will be directed to it. I shall be at a meeting on Sunday night from 8 o'clock onwards. If you arrive before that time, would you please phone my home (F-3292). If you have not phoned by the time that I leave home to go to the loeeting, I will give you a ring at the Inn abbut 10 ofclock. I can then arrange to have breakfast with you the next morning and tell you more about the program that I have arranged for you. The lecture is at 7:30 Monday evening and it will be a very popular audience. The professor of medieval history in this University, Loren MacKinney, would like you to speak to his undergraduate class on medieval history. It meets at 10 o'clock, and he has suggested as a possible topic "The Influence of Islam on Europe" or "The Significance of the Crusades." The History Department will take charge of you from the end of that class onwards, and a group of its faculty members will have lunch with you. At 3 o'clock Dr. MacKinney meets his graduate seminar, and if you would care to visit that or to speak to it, he would welcome your presence. It consists of about eight students, and at the present moment the seminary Is concerned with the growth of the towns. Dr. MacKinney suggests that, if you should wish to talk to the group, you might take some subject like the influence of the Crusades on the trend towards urbanization . My wife (who is delighted to hear that you are bringing your wife with you) and I will be having dinner with you before your lecture, and we intend to ask a few of my colleagues to meet you at our home after it. Every good wish, and looking forward to meeting you again, Sincerely yours, OIA^^CJL >e, /L-<*ti Arnold S. Mash " ASNrsjb dictated but not personally signed owing to absence |