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Show JNIVfTRSlTY OF MICHIGAN SENT FOR INFORMATION OF ***'.*/)*» Mov»;iber .11, 1959 His Beatitude Porphyrias ill Archbishop of KSSftlt Sinai Couvent is Salnte-Catherlne IS Hi dan al~Gaber Cairo, Unitud hrab Republic your itatitsstai Often my thouqhts have turned to the HWtStsry of St. Catherine curing the difficult year i Have oassed since the death of sy wife. I reca with deep aretituee the kind letter of consolation you s^nt to ioe. ;ieews*Ht)a I m* that you yourself are welt and that the kind fathers of the Monastery, who were also so good to us, are likewise flourishing. * have begun to discuss possible plans for another visit to tha Monastery, aarhaps a-^it a y-ar from now. .ucentiy a meting of the Hount Stnai ,;uvi-sory Gessstttaa v«s held hare in Ann Arbor to consider the prospects, tfe « r e joined by a new .acmber, Professor Car! H. Kraellng, who H Qiraeioi ,,j the Oriental Institute of the university of Chicago. He Is a valuable addition bt . - > ht has had long experience of •rafcwate*itel research I \ tear Eastern lands, Heal year he would not ba able to visit the mmmUmrjf. but his general advice Mil! be very helpful to us. Also, Professor ^Itmmnn and Professor tee mm® from Princeton. Unfortunately, the distant* was too great for our colleagues at Alexandria University, «tt© am lobars of tae tsassfttaa4 to be praeenft* tea of our first considerations «as the question of funds for another expedition. The expedition of 1958 cost ft!7,*00.u0 (not including i^oftssor Weitzmann's personal a^ndlturet). Ml of that a«ount «as s u p p " * * * * *? University of Hlchigan. For the next expedition, the University of Hich gta would again supply approximately the s«.ie awount. Princeton -Jnivarsity is trying to raise additional funds so that we could bring another photographer and otnerwtsa iatraata our activities, atft they do not yet fcno* wether their effort will be successful. The division of personal responsibilities aould be the mm as in »JM ^ould mm* be field airector of tho «.v**iition. Earlier this year, after the loss of my wife, i wm too upset to be active In the Hount Sinti Inject, and the editors af Tine mtgezine, trtiich published the alf article about the •astery, even assul^d that I had dropped out of the project. This is ctrtainly until*. Mow that I a« regaining courage to continue my work, the Monastery attSIt even more to urn than it did before. i l * all «y heart 1 look forward to returning there. COPY Form 6130 5-58 200-rma S 53700 |