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493 254 #33 Ferry Avenue, East, Detroit, Michigan. January 5th, 1910. Dear Professor Sanders:- I regret very much that a pressure of many things, including a house full of guests, has prevented earlier reply to your good letter of December 31st. Let me thank you for the information you have given me concerning the manuscripts [[c?ered?]] by the photographs contained in the album sent by Ali Arabi. I feel quite as you do concerning this lot of manuscripts. They are not of sufficient importance to our group [[of]] manuscripts to warrant us in purchasing them. Should Professor Goodspeed care for them or a part thereof, he could doubtless secure them by communicating directly with Ali Arabi, whose address is Cheik Abd-Cl-Haye El-Arabi, Merchant of Antiquities, Guizeh Post-Office, Near Cairo, Egypt. When Ali Arabi first showed me the whole lot, he asked [[15(0?]]. Sterling for them, but at the time of my departure from [[obscured]] airo, he reduced his price to £ 750. Sterling, intimating that he might be induced to accept a lower offer, should I, after my return home, care to consider the matter more definitely. Since that time I have written him, acknowledging the receipt of the
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