Title |
Letters from 1953 and 1960 between Aziz S. Atiya, Luther H. Evans, William F. Albright, and Sterling M. McMurrin, |
Alternative Title |
0480_023_005_Library_Congress_Stapled_Set_08 |
Creator |
Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; McMurrin, Sterling M. |
Contributor |
Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981; Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1953-07-18; 1960-09-27; 1960-09-28; 1960-10-19 |
Spatial Coverage |
Cairo (Egypt); Baltimore (Md.) |
Subject |
McMurrin, Sterling M. - Correspondence; Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 - Correspondence; Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 -- Correspondence; Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981 - Correspondence |
Description |
1. One-page typewritten letter dated 18 July 1953 to Dr. Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress, from Dr. Aziz S. Atiya. 2. First page of two-page typewritten letter dated 27 September 1960 to William F. Albright, from Sterling M. McMurrin. 3. Second page of two-page typewritten letter dated 27 September 1960 to William F. Albright, from Sterling M. McMurrin. 4. Memorandum dated 28 September 1960 to Aziz S. Atiya. 5. First page of two-page typewritten letter dated 19 October 1960 to William F. Albright from Dr. Aziz S. Atiya. 6. Second page of two-page typewritten letter dated 19 October 1960 to William F. Albright from Dr. Aziz S. Atiya |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
Correspondence |
Format |
application/pdf |
Collection Name |
0480_023_005 |
Collection Number and Name |
0480_023_005 Aziz Suryal Atiya Papers |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
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Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99560 |
Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm |
Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya |
File Name |
0480_023_005_Library_Congress_Stapled_Set_08.pdf |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6wd4s9s |
Setname |
uum_asap |
ID |
780916 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd4s9s |
Title |
Page 5 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show 2'3iSf<t3 October 19, 1960 Professor W. F. Albright The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland My dear Professor Albright What a great personal pleasure it was for me to hear your name glowing on our Campus lately. Of course 1 have participated in the enthusiastic chorus , and my wife and I are more than gratified at the prospect of a reunion in the summer* I m assuming that you know of my joining the faculty of this very beautiful campus in order to help in setting »*p this new Center. Starting with one course in Arabic and another in History, we have expanded to a fuller Middle Eac-im Irogram with Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Modern Hebrew - both language and area studies. We are meeting with unanimous support from both Faculty and student body. President Olpin, to whose imagination we owe the Program, is at one with Vice-President McMurrin in giving us every encouragement. The members of ray family, too, are quite happy in this congenial and picturesque area. My wife works part-time with the university Museum, my daughter studies a pre-medical course at this school, and my son is pursuing a local high school. As regards myself, in spite of multiple activities and a teaching load, I have been able to attend to some of my writing. This year 1 ha~?e published a new volume 0* the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria and just finished another volume based on the Patten Lectures which I delivered at Indiana in 1937 on "Crusade Commerce and Culture: Chapters in the Relations between the Kiddle East and the West." This volume will be published simultaneously at Indiana and Oxford. I have now time to resume my '111story of Eastern Christianity" of which I have about 400 pages already written. This volume goes to Harpers. I am also hoping that I shall be spared the time to take up the Sinai arrears long overdue. Let me just say this about the Summer Institute. For the whole of the last year, the University has been working on a |
Setname |
uum_asap |
ID |
780914 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd4s9s/780914 |