OCR Text |
Show • • / THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SALT LAKE CITY 84112 November 27, 1972 MIDDLE EAST CENTER TELEPHONE: AREA CODE 801 BUILDING 413 581-6181 My dear Wendell: The administration of the rising billions must be a tremendous, though pleasant, burden to you. It has certainly been a deterrent to me from frequently writing to you, since I do not know where you may be globe trotting or whether you have the amenities to respond. However, it is always good to try and keep the flame of old friendships glowing, We often reminisce over your last brief visit to these parts and trust*that it can be repeated in a more leisurely frame. Shortly I am going to send you a copy of the Festschrift by surface sail. It is a handsome volume published by Brill in Leiden comtaining brilliant contributions in six languages from seven countries by eminent scholars. Its appearance was a pleasant surorise to me and I thought you would enjoy it. At any rate, you will be pleased to know that I am still where last you left me - teaching, researching and publishing, :<fy remaining aspiration is to see siy children established in a permanent career. My son, whom you must have seen as a child in Maadi, is now well on the way for a doctorate in the Philosophy of Science and appears to be doing great. Nayra my daughter whom you surely remember is teaching French language and literature at North Central College at Naperville outside Chicago for the fourth year. With her husband, Paul S. Walker, on the brink of obtaining his PH.D. in Middle eastern Studies from Chicago, she will most probably quit at the end of the year and a seek a new similar post where her husband may find an academic position elsewhere. His "background comprises History, Culture and both the Arabic and Persian Languages together with a few published articles in learned organs. Since, in our last meeting, you sounded encouraging for me to write you in time about gsyra and her husband in case of a dual opening where their services may be needed in any institution where the weight oi: your Influence may carry, I thought to bring the matter to your kind notice. On the other hand, I am refraining from sending their Curriculum Vitae until I have word from you in these times of academic stringency. Lola and I plan to go to the -fiddle 3ast after Christmas which we shall spend with children and grandchildren right here. After a few weeks in Sgypt, we shall go to Washington for April and probably /lay 1973 in connection with work in the Library of Congress. But it is always safer to write us at home (1335 Perry Avenue, Salt Lake City-Utah 8*103)• since my son vail handle our correspondence and forward letters of particular importance. Whenever I go to.India to supervise vols. 71 and VII of my Indian Arabic naauscripjs, I shall sake a point of halting in Hawaii in the hope that our paths may cross. Naturally I shall write you in good time. With our advance most cordial and personal Christmas greetings to you. As Always, Aziz 3. Atiya |