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Show Z?:Y/13 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART TAPPAN HALL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN July 28, 1960 Professor Aziz S, Atiya Center for Intercultural Studies University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Aziz: I do hope you will forgive my tardiness in replying to your letters of June 27 and July 18, I believe ilene has a better record than I have, having acknowledged your very beautiful letter of felicitation on our marriage. She is most eager to meet you and your family, but [ suppose she will first become acquainted with Fuad and Lily. Ilene has departed already, in order to pick up in Germany some scholarly material she needs for a seminar she will give at Columbia next winter. Anderegg and I will leave here in our truck on August 6, driving to Princeton. From August 8 until August 10 we could be reached in care of the Department of Art and Archaeology, McCormick Hall, Princeton University. We sail August 11 on the Cristoforo Colombo. We pick up Ilene and Kurt in Naples and continue to Alexandria, being due there August 24. Unfortunately, Carl Kraeling has suffered a coronary attack so that our two weeks trip as guests of the Oriental Institute, during early September, has been cancelled. We plan, therefore, to advance the date of our trip to Mount Sinai by two weeks, if our freight arrives in good time. 1 hope we may be off for the Monastery soon after the beginning of September. Ilene would, of course, like to accompany me, and I am glad to learn that you think there will be no difficulty in arranging for her to do so. As a Mediaevalist with a Ph.D. in Art from Columbia, she is eager to see this El Dorado of her subject and to be helpful in any way she can. The spare parts for Mr. Abdallah Ragab arrived in good time and were shipped three days ago as part of our consignment of equipment to Alexandria. This time we have no less than sixty large crates and boxes, weighing well over four tons. I shall personally see to it that the bundle is placed in Mr, Abdallah Ragab's hands. It will be a pleasure to render to him this slight service after the courtesy showed us in 1958. |