Letters from 1950 and 1951 between Aziz S. Atiya, William F. Albright, Mrs. James MacMillan, Luther H. Evans, Verner W. Clapp, and Sue Sullivan

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13 Sharia Mariette Pasha, Cairo (Egypt), July 16. 1950. My dear Dr. Albright, I am always happy to see your handwriting and I was particul­arly pleased to receive your last letter of June 27. Your generous appreciation of my latest discorery in Mt Sinai is my best test­imonial, coming from you. Wendell, who has witnessed the discorery and the commotion it did in the Monastery on that memorable day, is now on his way to the USA and he will soon be able to provide you with plentiful first hand details about it, I took Wendell to meet Taha Hussein and he had a good interview with him. On the whole, I think that the Expedition has achieved -wwjfcpaore than has seen expected of it and I am Tery gratified to think that I have seen instrumental in this great achievement. Thank you for taking so much trouble on my behalf with several great American Universities. I certainly appresciate the possibil­ity of giving some lectures at Princeton and Michigan. If my visit to America is going to se a success, it is thanks to you. Mr. Clapp has already written to me about the tmporary loan of the Codex Arabicus for finer photographic treatment in the Lib- *wrv of Congress. Of course no one in the world could be more en­thusiastic about thUfaJfetn I. And, barring all modesty, I think I can curb more difficulties in this regard than most people. But owing to some circumstances of which Wendell is aware and which I cannot detail in a letter, there are other difficulties which I am presently unable to surmount. Nevertheless I hold some hopes of success if we hit on the right procedure. I am writing by the same mail to Mr. Clapp proposing that he should confer with you on the Wording of a letter of high appreciation of the new dis­covery to Dr. Taha Hussein as Minister of Education and then ex­plain 'to him that the subjection of the Palimpsest to the higher and finer and more recent technique in the Library of Congress is anecessary complement to do justice to this great discovery. If wfe'i 'stu cicse ead reianl cpolnevaisnucrieng thoi mk,n owI ctahnat d|^|J£g^fef fNrre nsotw. feeling much bettST. I myself am worn out after the long days of relentless £oil? in Mt Sinai. My wife and the children have already gone to •the mountains of Cyprus and I hope to be able to join them £#$a» few "restful weeks. But I must linger here in this sweltering heat for a little time until the Expedition is finally closed dowii. I realise that someone might need my assistance and I must play ray part even at my own cost. With my kindest remembrances, Yours ever sincerely,