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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., 
January 9th, 1908.

Mr. Ibrahim Aly , Dragoman,
Care, Abbat Hotel, 
Alexandria, Egypt.

My dear Sir:-

You will doubtless remember that during my stay in Cairo last year. I brought some biblical manuscripts from Arabi of Guizeh. You will also remember that I agreed to give a watch to the son of Arabi if after expert examination, it was determined that the Manuscripts were genuine.

I am now pleased to tell you that a partial examination by experts of the University of Michigan has been made, and the experts assure me that the Manuscripts are genuine. Under these conditions, I am now ready to send a watch to the son of the old man Arabi. And I am wondering in whose care I had better send it. I wish you would write me and tell me to whom to consign the watch that it will safely reach young Arabi. I would also like to know as much concerning the Manuscripts as you can learn from old Arabi. When you have time, I wish you would see him and ask him to tell you all that he knows about the Manuscripts.

Please learn from old Arabi if he dug up the Manuscripts himself, and if so, in what part of Egypt he dug them up. If he bought the Manuscripts, I would like to know from whom he obtained them, and I am particularly