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Show Ik Sharia ¥ac?x el~HiI, 2-3 > ty 10} aa 1 - Cairo, Egypt, March 2S 1953. My dear Wendell: Let me first offer yon an apology for inability to write earlier, as 1 fell ill for a while after yon had left Cairo* Your visit, though very short this time, was a source of pleasure to me and 1 am glad that we have been able to achieve SO I in so United a period. I thought a great feal of you when flying over Europe at a time when the Continent was surging with high seas and"strong winds. I trust that you did not have any trouble in the route. As there are too many items with which this letter will deal. 1 shall tabulate them to avoid confusion and oversightand in order to enable you to tick each item when you have finished with it. 1 - I am sending you herewith two prints of the picture taken with General - oha ined Nagulb as you will surely want to have one of them on the Foundation walls* This visit ! ^ral's welcome of course aroused animosity in certain circles which need hardly be detailed and the result was some publicity which* though 1 managed to nip in the bud, left traces which only you can erase in your next visit. 2 - I am also enclosing your Geographical Society .Membership card together with the requested testimonial which 1 vrfcte myself with Hassan Awad as * icint of signalling recognition to you as a leader of numerous expeditions and as an explorer," Eileen will no doubt put it into English for you, I trust that you will li'ce its tens** 3 - Concerning Commander Wendell Phillips Dodge, it is necessary that he should send a signed application r v [ vil-1 initiate with another mmfoBTt Taen this is done, it is agreed tha" will be elected at once in the next meeting* Hassan Awad -nd I could not find any documents in the Society from him, and if vou send e t'"> t >aper I shall attend to the rest with great pleasure. h - I have paid your subscription to the Society for the two past years since your election, and I slj "ay the third year with my present subscription for 1953* 1 shall do the same with Comma r.c>r Wendell P. Dodge's subscription. In the meantime, 1 am sending you herewith the Medieval Academy card requesting my subscription of ft7«50*for 19?3 together with their addressed envelope in the hope that yon will be good enough to settle t .. ant on my behalf, I will not fail to let you know when I am in neod of anything further from America, f m A new idea is being conceived about the foundation of an Institute of Mediterranean Studies in the Alexandria University under my directorship as a counterfoil to the Cairo Institute of Charters and Librari-anshlp and thus persuade me to stajr in Alexandria and continue that microfilm business in the new f\ fci©3 « Personally I do not mind anything which will enable us to carry on the good work so auspicior. ~ • begun. When I see you next, we can discuss details, The Microfilms may be entrusted to that new Institute, ar; Mediterranean nature of its scope will give us a free hand to act outside the frontiers, beogfin nAimnhgar iIc h moaptee rwiatlh iAbny sts inia,T- O 1HT ea-mn-a Hdo *: S„ 3 t gire a-t deal |
