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Show £3 / \p j % ameRican foundation foR the study of man, inc. 142 WEST 49th STREET, NEW YORK CITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT CIRCLE 5-5686 October 6th 1952 Prof. Aziz S. Atiya 14 Sharia Wadi el Nil Maadi (Near Cairo) Egypt. My dear Professor Atiya: Please forgive the delay in replying to your kind letter of Sept. 20th. However I was out in California when your letter arrived, in that I premiered our new feature movie entitled "Exploring Queen of Sheba Land" in Hollywood, for Walt Disney, Walter Wanger, and other leaders of the Motion Picture Industry. I might add that the picture has been very well received all over America, and when I was in Egypt last Professor Mitwally wanted me to show it at the Fouad Desert Institute, and I am sure that something like that could be arranged when next I arrive in Egypt, and that and many other things we must discuss. I was just talking to Dr. Luther Evans and I understand that the microfilms have been sent to the State Department in Washington and that the State Department in Washington has now despatched them to Ambassador Jefferson Caffery in Cairo. I am writing immediately to Ambassador Caffery so that the Directors of the American Foundation can have a hand in the presentation of these microfilms to Alexandria University. It is very possible that I will attempt to visit Egypt at this time in the very near future to take part in the presentation ceremony and of course you and I will have to coordinate our joint efforts in all of this. Please write me immediately your plans for the presentation of these microfilms, for I think it should be made in a manner of good will between our two countries. I have another major new microfilm project in mind which I will discuss with you when I see you, and this will also involve the Library of Congress and the American Foundation for the Study of Man. I will wait until I see you however to discuss it further with you. I have been working hard to write a suitable foreward to your excellent volume on the Arabic manuscripts and I hope to have everything in the hands of Professor W.F. Albright and Professor Casper J. Kraemer |
