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Show 2%: Q /(p^ ameRican foundation fOR the study of man, inc. 142 WEST 49th STREET, NEW YORK CITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT My Dear Professor Atiya: I have just received your kind letter of November the 15th, and am hurrying a reply off to you, although I hope to be leaving the country in the next week or two myself, and will stop off for a couple of days in Cairo to visit with you and I also hope to see Professor Mitwally and several of my other friends. I know nothing further with regard to the arrival of the microfilms except that they left here some time ago, and were to be sent as I understand it, to Jefferson Caffery, the American Ambassador. I will however be talking to Verner Clapp or Dr. Evans within the next few days, and I will enquire if they know anything further. Both Professor W.F. Albright and Professor Casper J. Kraemer have been working very hard to get your book into publication, and by the time I see you all of this should be well under way. I am enclosing for your interest one of several possible proofs for the book. By the way when the final book appears, the name of the University will be changed to Alexandria University. Also the one that I'm enclosing in this letter was just one of several possibilities. We are attempting to make this book as conservative and as scholarly looking as possible, and be-live me when our friend Kenneth Clark sees it, he will be a very unhappy man. I have one problem here which I want to speak to you about, and that is this - when the Library of Congress was going to do your book, it would have come out just as a paper covered pamphlet, similar to Kenneth Clark's and would have only been another handlist, of which they put out many, throughout a year's time. I am insisting that your volume come out as a beautifully bound and engraved book, with the plates carefully done etc. The quality of this book of yours is dependent solely on how much money I can get together to meet the publishing cost. I have already secured approximately $3,000 and am continuing to work very hard to secure the rest of the money required. Possibly your University,Alexandria University, might feel that this is a worthy undertaking and might wish to further Egyptian-American relations by contributing to the actual publication cost of this manuscript. If so, of course, full credit will be given in an appropriate place to this financial assistance from your University. Now I am not suggesting that this is absolutely necessary, but I am trying to make this as fine a volume as possible, and if Alexandria University could make a contribution to be used exclusively to help in the publication cost (in Egyptian Pounds) it would help me very much. I was not going to mention this CIRCLE 5-5686 December 1, 1952 (dictated Nov.27) |
