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Show 7Z \ t/Ho December 9, 1969 Professor Kurt Weitzmann Dept. of Art and Archaeology Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Dear Kurt: Your good letter of last August must have arrived here after my departure for a Palermo meeting of the International Council on Philosophy and Humane Sciences where I was scheduled for a lecture. Afterwards I spent the Fall travelling in Europe and the Middle East. I am therefore seizing the first possible opportunity to write these few lines in haste to you at Princeton where I am hopeful that you have safely returned in order to enquire about your health. Though I regret so much that you had to stay for a period in a Swiss Kurhaus, I must say that I am gratified to know that you took a compulsory vacation for recuperation and I trust that this has helped in returning you to full strength. I was interested to learn of your multiple activities in spite of your Kurhaus intermission. 1 shall look forward to seeing the first Sinaitic volume in print and I am sure that you will include a few lines on the Microfilming Expedition of 1950, not only because of its magnitude for making available the Sinai manuscript heritage, but also on account of the fact that it led the way to the realization of your Second Sinai Expedition. When in Egypt 1 saw Fr. Gregorios during his preparation to go to Jerusalem for his investiture as Archbishop in succession to Porphyrios III, and we spoke about all manner of things. I trust that you will have successful dealings with him. Our own news are legion and I must save them until a forthcoming reunion. Since last I saw you, I have twice been abroad. The first trip was centered mainly in India where I have published the first two volumes of a ten-volume 14th Century Arabic manuscript. I do not know whether you will be interested in m y sending you copies of this work. But surely I should like to know whether you received m y History of Eastern Christianity published simultaneously by Methuen in London and Notre Dame University Press in America during 1968. If inadvertently you did not have a presentation copy, please let me know at once to send you one. |