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Show Z$'-1-130 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART TAPPAN HALL A N N ARBOR, MICHIGAN Hay 20, 1960 Professor Aziz S. Atiya Center for Intercultural Studies University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Aziz: Your good letter of May 16 has just arrived, and I hasten to answer it. It was a great pleasure for me to have dinner with you at the Cosmos Club. I only wish that we might foregather more often. In this connection, you may recall that I asked whether you might be interested in joining the Cosmos Club. Since you seemed somewhat receptive to the idea, I have taken the liberty of consulting our mutual friends, Archibald G. Wenley, Director of the Freer Gallery in Washington, and Richard Ettinghausen, Curator of Near Eastern Art in the same museum. They agree with me in thinking it would be a splendid idea to have you as a brother member, should you be interested in joining the Club. A few years ago Wenley was its President. If the idea appeals to you, the first thing to do would be to provide your sponsors, namely ourselves, with the names of Club members whom you know so that they could provide us with supporting letters. If you will let me know your pleasure in the matter, I can have a list of Club members sent to you. I note that your letter is very discreet in not mentioning my engagement, which I mentioned to you and which I asked you to keep in confidence until I should have the chance to tell Hope about it. I am delighted to report that she is very pleased and that there is no longer any cause for secrecy. Indeed, you and Lola will soon be receiving an invitation to the wedding, on June 4 in Saint Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York, at eleven a.m. If, by any lucky chance, you both were to be in the vicinity at that time, it would give us the greatest pleasure to have you as guests as our wedding. The lady's name is Miss Ilene Haering and, as I probably mentioned, she is an instructor in the Columbia Art Department. Turning now to your kind concern for the Mount Sinai expedition, I am deeply grateful to you for writing on our behalf to Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mohammad, Vice-Rector of Alexandria University. He was extremely courteous to us in 1958 and was of enormous practical assistance, especially in solving our problems of the Customs. I am following your advice and am writing him forthwith, mentioning discussions between you and me. |
