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Show I 2V,fr//<^ Kingdom\§^bf Oman and Dependencies WENDELL PHILLIPS, Economic Advisor and Representative for His Majesty SULTAN SAID bin TAIMUR Honolulu Address; Suite 1409,Bank of Hawaii Kmg of Oman Waikiki Building.2222 Kalakaua Avenue,Honolulu Hawaii 96815. Cables: Foundstudy,Honolulu- London Ad dress47a Trent Gardens, London N.14 Tel:01-449 4963. Cables.FoundstudyXondon N.14 May 2 0 , 1 9 69 Professor Aziz S. Atiya The University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 My dear Aziz: Thank you for your gracious letter of May 14th. I returned to Honolulu Friday after six weeks in Europe, bidding in the Trucial States at Ummalqawain for off-shore oil concessions and bidding in Indonesia where I developed a wonderful friendship with President Suharto, truly a great leader. I returned to deliver the commencement addresses in California, Georgia and the University of Miami for honorary degrees and then I'm returning immediately to Europe to pick up my Ph.D. (about time) for a thesis I've written on the archaeology of Dhofar. I am certainly sorry to have missed seeing you, but hope we can get together soon, either at the University of Utah, or better yet here in Hawaii where I would love to entertain you. Do, however, contact my secretary Helen, to make sure that I am going to be here, in that I have a heavy schedule and that I am working hard to finish my major volume on the life of Jesus; and I am also doing another volume on the history of Dhofar. Congratulations on your magnificent new volume. You always continue to amaze me at the amount that you produce for which I sincerely congratulate you. I don't know if I told you, but I received recently an appointed full professor of archaeology at the University of Wyoming, so we are next door neighbors. And as I only have to give a lecture or two a year, why, it's a lovely appointment. I believe I told you that Shirley became quite ill and it |