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Show %z; *t 528 Marriott Library , August 11, 1970 Dr. Wendell Phillips Suite 1409, Bank of Hawaii Waikiki Building 2222 Kalakaua Avenue Honolulu, Hawaii 96815 My dear Wendell: At long last, our world tour is beginning to take shape via Hawaii. ^dJ 0 *Vv\We plan to leave on September 15 and resume our next hop to Japan on September 21. My wife and I are wondering whether perchance you might be there during that week. It will be a pleasure if our paths will cross either on the islands or perhaps in India where we shall spend the months of November and December before we turn back to Australia for speaking at the International Orientalist Congress meeting at Canberra on January 3-13, 1971. You attended the last one at Ann Arbor and delivered your r~flfamous account of the Yemenite Expedition. It was the best received function in the Congress, and believe me, we can witness it many more times. If you are not at Honolulu during our sojourn, is there hope of our converging on Canberra for the Congress? I have written to an old pupil of mine who is currently Chairman of the Humanites in the Church College at Laie asking him to book accommo-ations for us at Honolulu. I do not have an address to give you, but I shal) telephone your office after our arrival. We intend to spend a few weeks in Japan and, after a brief stay in Hong Kong, we shall visit a few sites in northern India before heading for Hyderabad, where our address will be Secunderabad Club. The explanation of our prolonged stay there is that I shall supervise the publication of my third volume (about 600 pages) of a work of which the Osmania University had already published the first two volumes for me. There are still more vo3umes to come of that book (a fourteenth century Arabic manuscript seeing the light for the first time), and this will mean more visits to Hyderabad in future. By the way, you will be pleased to know that my first of three volumes of the complete Catalogue Raisonne of the Mt. Sinai Arabic Manuscripts has just been published in Alexandria in 620 pages. I have not seen it and probably shall not see it until I reach Egypt in February. Though I do not !\ |