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Show I UNIVERSITY OF M I C H I G A N • D E P A R T M E N T OF FINE A R TS ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN April 9, 1958 Professor Aziz S. Atiya Rosedale Road Princeton, New Jersey Dear Aziz, Many thanks for your most helpful letter of April 4. You quite persuaded me that I should arrive in Cairo a few days before Fred reaches Alexandria with the truck and part of the photographic equipment. If the customs officers were not forewarned from Cairo, they would certainly be perplexed as to how to handle the situation. Therefore, I requested an earlier plane reservation on Monday, and obtained it yesterday. I am now due to arrive in Cairo at 2:30 a.m., April 18. Fred is due to dock on Wednesday, April 23. The main bulk of the equipment, which is being shipped by freighter, should arrive at Suez toward the end of the month. It was consigned to a freight broker, Fabius and Company, New York City. As soon as I had obtained my new plane reservation, I tried to reach you by phone in order to acknowledge your letter, but I learned you were in New York. I shall phone again this afternoon, but meanwhile I had better get this letter off to you in case I miss you. You have shown your usual kindness in furnishing Kurt with a bundle of letters of introduction to the Monastery and to the official authorities. These will be of enormous help to us - a true sine qua non. As to the visas for Professor Berry and for Lt. John Alley, I thought I might writeA\ntroductory letters' about them both, addressed to the Egyptian Consul General in New York .and to tho Egyptian Embassy in Washington. In thofe letters', I thought I might refer to you, suggesting that the recipient? might appeal to you if $hef had any guest ions about the credentials and purposes of the two applicants. I coufq send copies of my letters' to Berry and Alley and also to you, if you do not mind Ct*w,tu^w^tfij\ having fchSn for the record. If Berry and Alley should have difficulties, , WJeL. tL*.1U^*< perhaps they could appeal to you for help, but I would urge them not to *>* *L^%t »D««u4' do so unless they met a real impasse. When I call on Mr. Hashem in Cairo, *^"-A +^AuruXL I can tell him that Berry and Alley will come directly to him upon arrival "Vpfc. wtL/t."*«8r*W. and request his assistance with the Frontier Department in order to obtain y\J*Ti"tr tx^Lflif tne'r Sinai permits. Does this general procedure seem all right to you? t^. ^ ^\ As to the customs, I am following your advice precisely. Fred and I have, between us, multiple copies of the lists of scientific material we wish to import - some twelve copies in all. Then, I shall have with me official statements that we are a scientific expedition. President Hatcher is giving me a beautiful one with a gold seal and |