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Show 2 3 ^ May 16, 1960 Dr. George Forsyth, Chairman Dept. of Fine Arts University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan My dear George! It was a great occasion, that which brought us again together in Washington last week. Again thank you for your hospitality at the Cosmos Club. I enjoyed every minute of your company and it was really fine to compare notes on developments in the new phase of your important Expedition to Sinai. I have no doubt that you will score many more achievements, and that the accumulated harvest will prove to be a record in the field of expeditionary humanities* In accordance with our agreement, I have written personally to Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mohammad, Vice-Recter of Alexandria University, reminiscing over our former mutualities and ending with a survey of the position of your joint expedition, urging him to take the Alexandrian side under his personal surveillance and offer all the needed assistance and collaboration in bringing it to a successful issue in every possible manner* You «&$*•, if you wish, refer to our Washington meeting and my enthusiasm for the involvement of Alexandria in your activities, an involvement which you welcome for the glory of service to science and the arts. Let me digress to another matter in which you graciously acceded to my suggestion for using your Sinai exhibits at Utah. I have spoken to my colleagues here about this prospect and all were most enchanted with the idea. Could you, whenever your time permits, let me know the practical de* tails of the conditions of the loan and use of these exhibits at this end? We should like to put this material on show in the autumn and to accompany it with public relevant lectures in which I shall of course be happy to participate, myself, as your unchartered ambassador. Another question to which I trust you will give me your candid answer! You remember of course Abdallah Ragab of the Finances and Customs in Cairo mm a man who may again serve in fascilitating some aspects of the expedition entry. He wrote to ask me for two or three spare parts for his refrigerator which cannot be acquired in Egypt. I shall naturally be happy to get them for him and it has been my intention to ship them to him by parcel post. But since items of this kind cannot be insured in the mail and probably will be lost on the way, Lola has suggested that I may approach you and Fred to see whether, without imposition or encumbrance, you can |