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#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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