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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 31, 1931
Dear Glueck:
I have signed and mailed all the drafts you sent me except the one for Moon’s expenses, which I have signed but am returning herewith for you to do with as you see fit. The “%” at the bottom must be a typographical slip for “5” I am quite sure, and it seems to me it should be corrected before being sent to the bank, but I did not venture to do this over your signature. I should be quite willing to have you do it, and since no alteration in the amount to be paid is involved, I don’t see why there should be any objection to an erasure and correction. Of course the 100% correct procedure would be to have the whole thing copied and signed, but it doesn’t seem to me necessary.
1933
BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
May 2, 1933,
Dear Glueck,
Thank you for attending to the matter of my P.O.S. subscription and doctor’s bill. I am sending the amounts to Dr. Canaan directly and hope he receives my letter all right.
Your mention of sites where work is just closing down and others where it is just beginning (or was when you wrote) makes me more homesick than ever for Palestine. I hope I can somehow and somewhere get a chance after you come back to hear all about what has been found this past year.
Dr. Albright, at the A.O.S. meeting a couple of weeks ago, showed me your account of last summer’s trip and the photographs of your extraordinary rock-drawings of animals. They will make a fine report for the Annual, I should think. From all I have heard and read, you have been having a find year. A few snags, of course, have to be expected, but you have apparently negotiated them successfully.
With best regards to you and the school staff and any of my friends who may be around,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
1934
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 5, 1934,
Dear Glueck:
Not knowing just when you plan to leave Cincinnati, I am sending this in care of Mr. Moon and asking him to see that you receive it.
I am very sorry that it does not seem feasible to come down to New York for the dinner in honor of you and Albright. It would be a very great pleasure, and I should enjoy meeting the other people there as well as contributing my share to the honor shown you.
You know, however, how deeply interested I am in your work. I am still hoping to get across next summer and see you in operation. In any case, I heartily hope that your success may continue to correspond to the meaning of your name.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn,
September 18, 1934,
Dear Glueck:
I am glad to hear that you are back, and I am eager to hear all about the things you mention in your letter. If you come to Philadelphia soon, perhaps I can manage to run down there so that we can have a general confab all around. If I have to wait until December to see you, I wish you could take a day off and write me a ten-volume letter. As for the date when you take over the office of Treasurer, I should think you and Professor Barton had better arrange that between you.
Your disposal of the trust was doubtless the best thing to do under the circumstances, and you were lucky to come out as well as you did. The transfer of the amount to the Jerusalem School you can doubtless adjust without trouble at this end.
The matter of Fisher’s retirement I should like to discuss with you in person (or by correspondence, if necessary) as soon as possible. I heard yesterday that Fisher was sailing to Palestine this week, so I presume there is nothing to be done for the present.
There are many matters connected with our financial needs that I should like to discuss with you, too. We’ve got to get busy, and that right early. Mr. Moon is doing a lot of foundation work, but I don’t think we can afford to wait much longer before going out for funds more aggressively. You have ideas about that, I know.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Oct. 17, 1934
Dear Burrows:
I hope that the preliminary sketch of the expedition’s trip, which I published in Bulletin 55 will take the place, for the present, of the ten-volume letter you asked for. I have already commenced working on the larger report, which I am afraid will almost look like a ten volume work by the time I am through with it. We examined 285 places during the six months. I shall try to have the report on Edom ready for the Annual XV, together with a report on all of the Moab pottery of last year, and the Edom pottery of this year. Speiser has just sent me the proofs of the first part of the Moab report. I should say that the Edom report plus the pottery of both seasons will require about twice as much space. One of the conclusions which I did not incorporate in the article in Bulletin 55 is that the Kenites are smiths, having lived in the copper mining area, and that in their wanderings through Judah and Israel, they were practicing their trade as itinerant smiths; cf. also Gen. 4,22 and Ezek. 27,13. I can also show now that Umm el-Biyarah in the Petra area is to be identified with Sela. The pottery from Umm el-Biyarah is Edomite.
Dr. Barton insists that I take over the duties of treasurer immediately, which I have done, and has sent me all of the material which he has. In the letter, dated June 19, 1934 to the Provident Trust Co., which you countersigned, there is no mention of a sum of $250, which I thought was to be sent to Stinespring for expenses involved while carrying on in Jerusalem as acting-director. When I left Jerusalem recently both Stinespring and Albright assumed that the matter had been approved by the trustees of the school. I find no mention of it in the budget for this year. Will you please look into the matter, and let me know about it?
In a recent letter Albright reminds me that a check for $500 for excavations is coming to him from the School this autumn some time. That sum also is not listed in the above mentioned letter to the Provident Bank, although I see that it is provided for in the budget. I do not yet know just how payments are made, except that voucher must be signed by the President and the Treasurer of the American Schools. I have written to Barton for the necessary information about the method of procedure, but have as yet received no reply from him. In as much as Albright requests that the money should be sent as soon as possible, I should like to have the check sent to him soon.
Moon writes me that one of my tasks is to prepare the budget for next year. Will you please let me know what items you would like to have entered on the budget? When all suggestions have been received, I shall list them, and send them on to you after I have prepared a preliminary budget.
I do not think that I shall come east till the December meeting. I hope to read a paper then on the expedition in Edom. Who is arranging the program?
Cordially yours,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 24, 1934
Dear Glueck:
I owe you two apologies, one for leaving your letter unanswered a week and the other for doing what has kept me too busy to answer it more promptly. Without the explanation I want to make you would undoubtedly and rightly be surprised to see the forthcoming annual appear with an article by me in it, after I told you we were short of space and couldn’t give you as much as you wanted. What happened in this: in some way, which I don’t yet understand, we miscalculate dthe size of the volume, and when I returned from abroad Speiser wrote to me that we needed another article. It was too late to go back to you or to the men whose offerings we had rejected altogether, so I undertook to fill in with a paper I prepared for the A.O.S. last spring. But I found it still needed more work than I thought, and that’s why my correspondence has been neglected.
Your report in Bulletin 55 is most interesting. Torrey has spoken enthusiastically about it and expressed the intention of writing to you about it. You have had marvelous success, and you deserved it, because you knew what you wanted to do and went about it scientifically.
The appropriation of $250 for Stinespring and $250 for Kraeling is recorded on p. 2 of the minutes of the Executive Committee for the meeting of April 5, 1934. The minute does not state from what item in the budget this appropriation is to be taken; my recollection is that it was a sum of $500 left over from the preceding year. Albright’s recommendation was that the amount be taken from the contingent fund of $1000 of the Jerusalem School, but whether that was the action actually taken I cannot say. We must see to it in the future that the record of such appropriations always states definitely where they are to come from. Perhaps President Morgenstern can clear up the matter; if not I’ll have to refer you to Barton and Moon.
With regard to payments provided for in the budget, the procedure has been to make out a bill for them, add a request to the bank to pay this and charge it to such and such an account, and have this signed by the treasurer and president. Barton always had a form typed out, signed it, and sent it to me with a stamped envelope addressed to the Provident Trust Co. I simply countersigned it and mailed it.
With regard to the budget, I should think you would certainly have to consult Barton. Last year’s budget (as finally amended) would serve as a general model, and so far as possible the officers and committee chairmen who administer the various items should be asked about their needs for the coming year. The Provident Trust Company, I presume, would have to estimate the income.
By the way, I see that I have noted on my copy of the budget for this year that Kraeling’s $250, Stinespring’s $250, and the $250 for Dr. Fisher’s traveling expenses were all to be taken from a sum of $1000 transferred from the Harvard-Nuzi volume to the Jerusalem School, according to the action recorded on p. 3 of the minutes of the Executive Committee’s meeting on December 27, 1933. I guess that settles that, and you can make out the order accordingly and send it to me to be countersigned, though of course my note isn’t an official record.
As regards the program of the SBL, the usual practice has been that the secretary sends out in November a preliminary notice of the meeting and asks that titles of papers be sent to him before December 10. We have a new secretary now, but I presume he will follow the same procedure.
With best regards,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Oct. 28, 1934
Dear Burrows:
I am glad that you are going to have an article in this issue of the Annual. It is splendid that you have been able to supply the material necessary to complete the volume. I have begun to work on the report on Edom, and I think that it will require a minimum of two hundred pages, particularly if I include the rest of the Moabite pottery. However, I guess we can discuss that some other time.
I am enclosing drafts for you to approve, made out to the order of Albright, Stinespring, and the Expense Account with Moon. I have not yet made out drafts for the $250 each for traveling expenses noted in your letter of Oct. 24, 1934 for Kraeling and Fisher, because I wanted to be sure that drafts had not previously been made out. I have written to Barton for information. Dr. Barton has been extremely helpful, and I hope soon to have the details of this office so in hand as not to have to bother him any more with requests for more information.
With regard to the Expense account with Lewis C. Moon, there is one item at the bottom of the page marked “to Expenses of the Trustees”, which I do not understand, and about which also I have written to Barton. It seems to me the sum of $5.00 should have been entered there. However, I have signed the Expense Account anyway for your approval.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours,
Glueck
P.S. I am also enclosing a copy of the ASOR transactions for Sept. 1934.
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Nov. 15, 1934
Dear Burrows:
The enclosures, which I should like to have returned so that I may keep them in my files, speak for themselves. Will you write to Mr. Patten, please?
I have written to, and received checks for $100 each from Mssrs. Loomis Burrell, Henry J. Patten, and James R. Jewett, as Patrons of the Schools.
Cordially yours,
Glueck
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Dec. 18, 1934
Dear Burrows:
Thanks for the care taken with my article and the excellent manner in which it was published. I am reading your article with great interest and profit. I hope that I shall be able to have considerably more space in the next Annual. The report on Edom is growing rapidly, and at the present moment I shall need a minimum of two hundred pages. I suggest that the surplus of my funds which will be left over after the necessary plates and plans and maps have been payed for, be applied to the extra cost of a larger Annual next year, in which I shall be able to include all the remaining Moabite and all of the new Edom materials. After all bills have been payed, there will be a surplus of about $700, remaining from the sale of the truck.
I have been working on the budget, but there are so many items I have not yet received information about from Dr. Barton, that I am not sure that I shall be able to present the budget to you till we meet in New York. I have written to Dr. Barton about a number of items, and expect his reply any day now. I shall probably no understand all the items of our finances, until I have been able to go over every one of them with Barton.
I have recently received the budget recommendation from Albright and Speiser, with which you also are undoubtedly familiar. Albright suggests that the appropriation for the Jerusalem School be cut from $3000 to $2500; that the appropriation for the Assistant Director be made from the funds of the Jerusalem School at the disposal of the Director, not to exceed, however, L.P. 100. He recommends that the Tayer Fellowship be made from between $1200 to $1500, depending upon the calibre of the appointee. I do not approve of the suggestion, because it think it should remain a fixed sum. It might well, however, be reduced to $1400 or $1300, and the difference applied to the Nies Scholarship, which I think is insufficient. Albright also recommends the appropriation of $1500 for the publication of the Bethel materials either in an additional volume of the Annual, or in a separate volume with the Annual format. This sum would take the place of the $1500 devoted to the Bethel excavations this year. In addition, Albright requests the usual $500 for excavations by the Director.
Speiser’s recommendations for the Baghdad School deal mostly with plans for the year after next, so that the 1936 budget will include the usual items for the Field-Director, the Fellow and the Ward Library. I shall put the usual $1000 in the budget for the Ward Library, but in view of the needs of the Baghdad School for the year after next, I think it might be well to cut that amount to $500 of less. Will you please let me know what your wishes with regard to the budget?
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely,
Glueck
1935
Jan. 2, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Happy New Year:
Returning from New York, I found the letter you had written on Dec. 21. I assume it was held up by the rush of holiday mail. We were able anyway to settle all the points in our New York meetings, which I think were very successful.
I have been working over the budget again since my return home. During the heat of the battle of retrenchment, I forgot to add into the budget the sum of $400, which Dr. Barton said he remembered being left over from previous appropriations. As a matter of fact neither this sum nor that of the $82 unexpended letter of credit appear anywhere in any financial statements I have. I am writing to Dr. Barton to find out if he can trace these items in previous financial statements. I had already included the $82 in the budget, so I’m going to leave it there. If Dr. Barton can definitely locate the $400 he spoke of, I should like to suggest that it be assigned to Dr. Albright for excavations. Or should we leave the budget as it now is? Even if Barton locates the $400 surplus of some previous year, it is now in our general funds. What is your thought in the matter?
It may be a bit early to think of it now, but in view of the decrease of our income during the 1936-37 year, it will be impossible to appropriate anything for the Baghdad School except a small sum for the library, and the $2000(?) necessary for the Annual Professor. May I suggest that the subject of the Annual Professors and their salaries be put on the agenda for the next meeting? If possible, it might be wise to dispense with the Baghdad Annual Professor altogether for a couple of years, if that is possible, or at least to cut the salaries of both Jerusalem and Baghdad Annual Professors at least $500 each, and preferably $1000 each. Speaking from a budgetary point of view, it will be necessary to put Fisher on a retirement salary during 1936-7. The retrenchment during that year will have to be much more severe than this year.
With best greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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February 11, 1935
Dr. Millar Burrows, President,
409 Prospect St.,
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Burrows:
Just a line to inform you of some recent activities. I have been hopping around the country at a great pace lecturing on Archaeology and presenting the result of the work done by the Schools of Oriental American Research. Thus recently, I have addressed St. Louis Archaeological Society, Temple Israel, St. Louis, State Teachers’ College, Milwaukee, Temple Israel, Milwaukee, the teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and group of two hundred and fifty ministers in Cleveland. I am to address the Cincinnati Archaeological Society in a few weeks.
I want to ask you about the advisability of requesting the office of the executive secretary to render me a monthly financial report as the Provident Bank does. There is no immediate hurry and perhaps we had best discuss it in full at the next meeting.
I have received a very excited letter from Fisher. He is somewhat upset about his future status and is, I am afraid, looking for trouble unnecessarily. He certainly has nothing to worry about for at least a year, and after that in all probability his status will have to be re-considered. I only hope that nothing will prevent him from devoting his full attention and all his energy to his present work.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 14, 1935
Dear Glueck:
It certainly won’t be your fault if nobody knows anything about the ASOR! I am glad to hear bout all your “hopping around.”
Your idea of having a monthly financial report from the Executive Secretary’s office is a very good one, and I see no reason why you should wait for the next meeting. It is a matter of good business and quite within your power to request such reports, it seems to me.
Our efforts to keep poor Dr. Fisher’s morale up by keeping up his salary didn’t succeed very well, did they? I had a letter from him on the subject of his future relation to the schools a while ago. I wonder whether he had received my answer when he wrote to you. I assured him that we appreciated his services and had his interests at heart, but of course I could make no definite promises beyond this year.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 4, 1935
Dear Glueck:
As Treasurer you are a member of the Endowment Committee. The Committee did not meet last year, and I do not want to call unnecessary meetings, but your counsel is needed. It may be possible to accomplish our purpose by correspondence, with perhaps a brief meeting at the time of the Executive Committee’s meeting.
There are two things on which I want to consult you just now. President Angell has strongly recommended to me that we seriously consider the use of a money-raising firm to help us raise our endowment, provided (a) that they will do it on a percentage basis and (b) that we make the actual contacts with prospects ourselves. He named the two firms of Jones and Tamblyn as possibilities. I understand that the idea was considered and rejected formerly; would you advise looking into it again?
The other question has to do with designated gifts. In consultation with Albright I have noted the following possibilities:
Excavation funds – expeditions to be named after the donors of funds which supply one third or more of the expenses,
Publication funds – to be named on the title pages of publications issued by their assistance,
Literary funds – e.g. gifts for books in special fields, to be marked with appropriate book-plates,
Fellowships and Scholarships in both schools,
Chairs in the Schools, including the Director’s.
Any of these might be memorials. What would you think of printing a list of such projects with the amounts required for them in the April Bulletin and giving copies to prospective donors? If you like the idea, can you make any specific suggestions?
While I am writing I want to report that I have been corresponding with the heads of our supporting institutions and their representatives on our corporation with regard to people whom we might interest and who might make fairly large gifts. While most of the institutions are having troubles of their own, the responses show an encouraging spirit of cooperation, and we have received a fair number of names.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 8, 1935
TO THE TRUSTEES AND THE MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Gentlemen:
While it is, of course, impossible to find a time or a place equally convenient for all of us, the replies to my recent letter indicate that the day which suits the largest number is the 28th. Notice is therefore given hereby that the Executive Committee will meet at 11 A.M. and the Board of Trustees at 2:30 P.M. on Thursday, March 28, at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (Room 104-A), for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the meeting. The agenda will be mailed to you shortly.
The most important question to be considered by the Trustees is the amendment of our By-laws in the interest of the simpler form of organization. A copy of our constitution and a statement of the changes proposed by the special committee at our December meeting were sent to you in January; if you did not receive them or have mislaid them, please notify Mr. Moon. In case you have any alternative or supplementary amendment to propose, please send it to Mr. Moon immediately, as our By-laws require that ten days’ notice be given before any amendment can be adopted.
Millar Burrows
President
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March 9, 1935
Dr. Millar Burrows,
President of American Schools of Oriental Research,
409 Prospect Street,
New Haven, Connecticut
Dear Burrows:
I suggest that we discuss again very seriously the question of raising our endowment at the next Board Meeting. I am not at all certain that a money-raising firm would be of much help to us. Any scheme necessitates making the actual contacts of the prospects ourselves and I am not sure that we would do more than we seem to be doing new. We really engaged Moon for the very purpose of helping to raise our endowment. Because of the nature of events it has proved impossible to do practically anything. If I am not mistaken the reason that the idea of a money-raising firm has been rejected formerly by the American Schools is because such firms always demanded too high a percentage.
With regard to the other suggestion of printing a list of various projects with the amounts required for them in the next bulletin, — I think it is an excellent idea. At the moment I have no suggestions to make more specific than those listed in your letter of March the fourth.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting,
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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March 29, 1935
Dear Burrows:
We had a nice meeting yesterday, and I am just finishing up a number of matters in connection our Schools’ business. I have written to Dr. Barton to find out when our list of investments was last reviewed by Patten and Warburg because I am anxious to have them inspected again. Nothing was done about the suggestion to approach Mr. Warburg for a contribution. What is your thought.
I just thought this evening that it might be advisable to take action with regard to reducing the salary of the 1936-7 Annual Professor to $1000. If you think it advisable, perhaps by letter to the members of the Board of Trustees the matter could be decided on. I remember that we discussed it briefly at the Christmas meeting, but do not think that any action was taken.
On think the matter over, I feel that it is enough for the Schools to pay on half of my actual train fare to the meetings, so I am sending you a voucher for $20.
I also take this occasion to acknowledge with many thanks for purposes of record you gift of $50 to the Endowment Fund, which I have just forwarded to the bank with the proper memorandum.
With best greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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April 18, 1935
Dear Burrows:
In as much as Albright, Speiser, and Morgenstern, who has been out of town recently, will all be in Ann Arbor next week. I shall discuss with them the matter of cutting the Annual Professors’ salaries for 1936-7. In as much as Olmstead will also be at Ann Arbor, perhaps I shall sound him out, or have Albright do it. I shall wait before writing any letters to any one else until I have returned from Ann Arbor, and can communicate with you again.
I think a committee of four to call on Mr. Warburg is a bit unwieldy, – but that can be decided upon later. I was not planning to come east this spring, but if necessary, in order to assist with the endowment fund by being a member of a committee to interview Mr. Warburg, I shall come on and charge my expenses to the Endowment Fund. I have written Mr. Warburg for an opinion about some bonds of ours, and am waiting for his answer. I then desire to submit our entire list to him.
I shall discuss the possibility of going to see Mr. Patten with those of our trustees who will be in Ann Arbor. Perhaps Olmstead will go with me to see Mr. Patten, or can suggest some one. In all events, I shall communicate with you first, and then be glad to try to see Mr. Patten, if it is found desirable.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 20, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Herewith I am returning the correspondence regarding the $4.30 belonging to American Speech.
I have your letter of the 19th also and shall await the result of your conversations at Ann Arbor. Sorry I can’t be there with you.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 22, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have received a long, rather warm letter from Prof. Olmstead to the effect that by not having our Board meeting at Ann Arbor we have produced an unfortunate impression of indifference to our friends in the Middle West and have missed a fine opportunity to make new friends. Unfortunately I’m afraid there is a good deal in what he says. I have written to Albright about it, and I should be glad if you would exert yourself in any possible way to correct any such impression as Olmstead thinks we have made. You might talk it over with him if you can, and also with Albright and Speiser and any other of our group who are there. We want all these folks at Michigan and the other places to feel that we belong to them and that they are an important and appreciated part of our organization.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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April 29, 1935
Dear Burrows:
The meeting at Ann Arbor was a very interesting one, although I was disappointed that Albright was unable to come.
I had a long talk with Olmstead. He felt that we had passed up an opportunity, and we may have. We shall have to watch ourselves in the future. It might be well for you as President of the Schools to attend such meetings. Next year you won’t have far to go. Olmstead said that if you had been present he would have seen to it that you sat next to Mr. Schoch, a wealthy friend of the AOS, who gave the AOS a luncheon, and that you could then have talked about the Schools to him. Of course, he might have made such an arrangement for one of us. I also talked to Olmstead about approaching Patten, or rather what would be the best way. He suggests that the simplest way would be for you to write to him directly, lay our situation before him, and ask for another contribution. About two weeks ago I wrote a long letter to Patten, and sent him a copy of all our investments, and asked him to review them for us. His secretary answered that he was out of town, but would turn over the material to him as soon as he returned.
Albright, in a letter, reacts negatively to the suggestion to reduce the salaries of the Annual Professors, and in view of the natural sensitivity of Chicago, I am afraid that we shall have to drop the matter. I talked the matter over with Morgenstern, Speiser, and Meek, and they also feel that it would not be wise to make this particular cut. What do you think?
Sincerely,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 2, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I am inclined to agree with Albright that we ought not to reduce our Annual Professors’ salaries if we can at all avoid it. Miss Hussey, I remember, considered it quite an outrage that there was such a difference between her salary and mine, as it was! We may have to take in slack on the Director’s salary, and that way be possible if Albright retires after next year, as he now says he intends to do. Of course what we now pay for half of his year would hardly be enough for the full time of an experienced man with an established reputation, such as we should like to have at Jerusalem, but if we appoint a young man like Stinespring it might be that something like $3500 would be enough to start on. I don’t know what salary Stinespring is to have at Smith next year, but he will be only an Assistant Professor.
While I am on that subject, I may say that I have worked whether an Acting Director who might be able to get a year off on part salary would be a possibility to tide us over a year or two. I’d love to do that myself if it were possible, but having come here only this year I’m afraid I’d have to take leave of absence without salary if I got off at all. For one term something of the sort might be arranged, if not for a whole year. In that case it would be possible to count the school year from July 1 to January 1, or something like that, and to let the Annual Professor just be on hand the second part of the winter to guide individual research without giving any set courses. Or perhaps we might be able to save a bit by appointing Annual Professors for one semester only for one or two years. There are many ways in which we may retrench if necessary.
Another possibility, of course, is that we stop putting all our income from other sources into the Endowment Fund and use some of it to supplement the Rockefeller grant for running expenses, in case we don’t get an additional grant for that purpose. I think we ought to consider that possibility very seriously before we cut down our budget too much. To give no fellowship stipends for another year, for example, would be bad mistake, I feel, if we can manage in any way to give them.
Anyway, we might as well be thinking of all possible contingencies and procedures.
With regard to writing to Mr. Patten for a contribution, I think I’ll first consult Moon and the members at the Endowment Committee. His case is only one part of the big problem of what to do about possible donors in the Middle West and West, where it is doubtful whether the results would justify sending Moon out on a long transcontinental trip. If you have any ideas on that subject, I wish you’d send them to me.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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May 14, 1935
Dr. Millar Burrows, President
409 Prospect St.,
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Burrows:
Several weeks ago I sent Mr. Patten the list of our investments and asked him to review them for us. I received his answer yesterday. I am happy to report that almost every bond [?] is selling at more than we paid for it. A few of them are selling at approximately fifty dollars less than we paid for them and one of them at about one thousand dollars less. Mr. Patten advises, however, that we do not sell this bond and adds that he would retain all of our present holdings without any chat whatsoever. On the whole it is a remarkable record of wise investment. If you care to have a copy of the book value of the present market prices of our investments I shall be glad to have one made and sent on to you.
If Albright is determined to resign at the end of next year we might perhaps save something in the salary of a new director, if a young man like Stinespring is appointed. If it is necessary to tide us over for a year or two I think your suggestion of an acting-director who might be able to get a year of only part salary is an excellent one. It would be splendid if you could get a leave of absence to make some such arrangement. If for any reason Stinespring for some one else might not be immediately available we might carry on as we did in the interim between Albright’s first resignation from the School and his return to it. If there should be a period of two years nothing would delight me more than to share such a period with you as we did in the past. Almost any salary arrangement would be satisfactory. If you could return for a year or for a semester of a year and if it were then still needed perhaps I could return for the following year or for the part of the following year. I am sure that it would be better for the School if the permanent arrangement could be made instead, but if it can’t I think it would be wise for those who have already had experience at the School to undertake temporary appointments again if they are able to do so.
I think that perhaps the best way to solve our financial difficulties for the next few years in case we receive no further grant from the Rockefeller Foundation would be as you suggested, to use any necessary part of our ordinary income from our other sources to keep the School in normal running order, rather than to devote all of our income to endowment fund prepositions. I have a feeling from Mr. Patten’s last letter that if properly approached he will be willing to make another large contribution to our funds.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 22, 1935
Dear Glueck:
(Just to show you how economical I am, I’m using this defective sheet for a letter “in the family.”)
I am glad to have your letter of the 14th, with its good news regarding the state of our funds and its statement of agreement with ideas I had expressed. Another possibility regarding Albright’s successor has come up. I have written Albright about it, and he expresses no opposition to the idea; in fact he seems definitely to approve, though I can’t tell now enthusiastic he is. President Dodge of Beirut was here a few days ago, and we were talking about possibilities in the way of cooperation between AUB and the ASOR. I remarked that we should have to be looking for a successor for Albright before long, and he asked whether we should care to use Ingholt for half of his time. The Hama dig will probably sotp after next year, he said, and he suggested that if we could pay $2500 we might have Ingholt for the summer and the first semester, AUB to have him the rest of the year and pay the rest of his salary. It seems to me that for a year or two, at least, this might be a very good arrangement. The prestige of the school would be conserved in that way as well as by any appointment I can think of. The budget would not have too great a strain to it, and the school would have a director for as large a part of the year as it has at present. In fact, if Ingholt was at Beirut during the rest of the year he could keep in touch with the school’s affairs. Dodge said also, by the way; that if we wanted a branch office at Beirut he would let us have one at the university museum. The only objection to Ingholt that any of our folks might raise is that he is not an American citizen; his wife is, however, and he has a Princeton degree and has been a student at our school. What do you think of this possibility?
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
June 18, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Herewith I am sending what I think is my first expense account. Some of the items are over a year old; if you don’t think I’m entitled to such old things, strike them out. I’m still leaving out postage, though it begins to count up after a while. When Moon moves up here, I think I’ll let his office send out my mail, unless or until somebody lodges a complaint.
I expect to be here practically all summer, so you can send your Ms. for the Annual directly to me here, if you want to. Both Speiser and I will want to go through it. To make my inspection worth anything, however, I’ll have to have text and plates together.
Thank you for your reaction to the Ingholt preposition. I do not think there is much danger that the School would be considered an appendage of the A.U.B. Even if a few people did get such a notion, I don’t’ see that it would do us any particular harm.
After all the nectic time over the Albright visa, it came through all right. Kraeling saw Albright off at the boat and came up here the next day for a little while.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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June 22, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Will you please return the enclosed letter, which speaks for itself. I have answered saying that I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, but requested a continuation of the present arrangements till the Board of Trustees meets next December. If the Provident Trust Co. does not desire to wait till then, will you want to present the matter to the members of the Board by letter?
I am enclosing the account for May 1935.
I hope to be finished with the Edom report in about two weeks.
I am glad that Albright finally got permission to take his family to Palestine. That Palestinian red-tape is a frightful nuisance.
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
June 25, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I return herewith the letter of the Provident Trust Company. As you say, the preposition seems not unreasonable, but I do not see why we should make a change without regular action at a meeting of the Trustees, unless the bank simply refuses to carry one, which they have no right to do at short notice. If necessary, of course, I can consult the Trustees by mail, but at this time of year letters may have to be forwarded goodness knows where to them.
You might say to the bank that inasmuch as the Treasurer is no longer in Philadelphia and even the Executive Secretary’s office is being moved elsewhere it is possible that it may prove advisable for us to transfer our business to a bank in Cincinnati or New Haven. If any change in the present arrangement is to be made, therefore, it might pay us to see what charge other banks would make before deciding what we should do. This might induce them to consider a lower commission, though I think we should express our appreciation of the fact that they have carried our increasing business so long at the old charge.
If I am not mistaken, the proposed commission would amount to about $125 to $130 at the present state of our funds. This is not too formidable, but every additional expense takes that much from our budget.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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July 8, 1935
Dear Burrows:
I have just had a wire from Albright requesting me to send a special delivery to the Provident Trust Co, Philadelphia, with instructions to wire him $1500 care of the American Express Co., New York City. His wire says that some complication has arisen with regard to the necessary guarantee for the Palestine government authorities. The bank wrote me the other day that the Pennsylvania State laws no longer permits them to issue such guarantees, and that henceforth we shall have to deposit cash with the British Consulate, receiving a receipt, and the return of the money when the receipt is returned. We shall have to publish an item in the Bulletin warning all prospective visitors to the School about the necessity of complying with these regulations. We may not always have enough cash on hand to furnish this money even for our own officers at the last minute this way. Naturally, in Albright’s case is different, ad evidently he has been confronted with new demands from the British authorities every time he turns around. I have just wired you to send a special delivery letter to the bank confirming my own special delivery authorization to Albright $1500 immediately care of the American Express Co., New York City. I would have wired the to send the money by special delivery to New York City, but in as much as this is late Saturday afternoon, their letter would never get to New York in time.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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July 15, 1935
Dear Burrows:
The enclosed letter from the Provident Trust Co. is self-explanatory. Will you please return it to me? Will you please sign the enclosed form in duplicate, have it witnessed by a notary public, and send it with my enclosed letter to Mr. J. W. Van Meter, Provident Trust Co., Phil.?
I am also enclosing the June financial statement.
Glad you received my mss. Will you please add at the end of the text “Cincinnati, Ohio, July 9, 1935”. In this last article Aus der ‘Araba, II-IV, ZDPV 58, p. 1 ff., Alt makes a number of statements, which would not have been made had he read the [?] mss.
With best greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
July 18, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter of the 15th with enclosures. I have not yet had a chance to get a notary but will try to do so in the morning. Since you have no signed the form yourself, I shall have to send it back to you instead of on to the bank.
I have added the note of “date when finished” at the end of your Ms. That is a very good practice, I believe, and we might well make a precedent of it. At the same time you might also, if you wish, add a brief footnote with reference to Alt’s statements.
Having gone through your Ms. once pretty carefully, I have a number of points to raise with you, mostly as queries. Minor points of which I am quite sure need not be mentioned; you can catch them in the proofs if I do anything wrong. I believe it will save time if I write out these things by hand instead of typing and then inserting diacritical marks and the like, so I’ll enclose a separate sheet for them.
The tube with map and pottery plates came C.K. with the other package.
While I am about it, let me say that even with the editorial drudgery thrown in I enjoyed immensely reading your Ms. You have done a great piece of work, and your record of it will be a standard work of reference for a long time to come.
Sincerely,
Burrows
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July 24, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Many thanks for all the trouble you have taken and are taking with my Ms. I have retyped p. 38, and am returning the answers to your queries, together with your page of queries. I am delighted that you enjoyed reading the Ms. If there will be space, I should like to prepare an index after I have received page proofs. The index should cover both Parts I and II. I shall add a note to the proofs mentioning Alt’s statement. It will take me some time to check up his references. There will not be much to add, and I do not want to hold up the Ms. now.
I received your letter with the signed form.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
July 26, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter and will follow out the directions you give. The consideration of uniformity in your Parts I and II seems to me to overweigh my preferences for [?] and the like, especially as our committee has not had time to discuss the matter adequately. I realized that names like Madhkur could hardly be changed on the plates, and that was another thing that made me hesitate. I think what we ought to do is to adopt a system, have a key printed, and send it all our contributors who are preparing manuscripts.
Enclosed herewith you will find a couple of bills that have come in, with my approval indicated.
By the way, do you happen to have a spare copy of your “Das Wort besed im Alten Textament”? I think I have told you I am working on the book of Ruth, in which the word is rather important. Of course your study of it is in the university library, and I can get it there if you have no extra copy of hand.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. an index covering Parts I and II would unquestionably add to the value of your work, and I think we should have it even though it will add several pages. But can’t you prepare the list of names and topics in advance, so that only the page numbers will have to be added after you get the page proof? Page number for Part I would go in the copy anyway.
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July 26, 1935
Dear Burrows:
In going over the rough drafts of the Annual Report which the bank has sent me, I find that Yale University and Crozer seminary contributed $100 each to the Jerusalem School. Comparing that with the Annual report of the preceding year, I notice that both institutions contributed $100 each both to the Jerusalem and to the Baghdad Schools. Can you ascertain from the records in the office why we received more from these institutions during the preceding fiscal year than we did during the one which just came to an end?
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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July 26, 1935
Dear Burrows:
I am enclosing several pages of addenda, dealing with Alt’s article. If it is desirable, perhaps you could have the additional notes on p. 159 included in the body of the article, being added to the page and note indicated in the column on the left side of the page. Otherwise, p. 159 can well retain its present place in the order of the pages of the Ms. I have also retyped p. 14 of the Ms. which I should like to have inserted in place of p. 14 in the copy of the Ms. you have, if it is possible.
With many thanks,
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
July 29, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I shouldn’t have any idea where to look in the office for the information regarding the contributions of Yale and Crozer. When Moon gets back he can probably put his hand on it at once, so I hope that will be time enough. I might make a hunt if there is any particular hurry, but I doubt if anything would be gained by it.
Your extra notes arrived in time for me to incorporate them before sending the Ms. on to Speiser. I added a few words to the first sentence of your new material to the effect that references to Alt’s article had been added to the footnotes. Since readers might want to know what the abbreviation stands for before they come to the Addendum, I inserted it in the list of abbreviations too.
I hope you won’t feel when you get the proofs that I have taken too many liberties with your English. It seemed to me in a number of places that it could be simplified a little and thus made more clear. The most common change I made was the omission of commas. Writers differ a great deal in punctuation, but I think you use altogether too many commas.
Herewith I am returning the five photographs you agreed to omit. I have renumbered the others accordingly and change the numbers in the text to fit them.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
I shall be away August 1-12. You can meet me in case of emergency at Lake Placid Club, Essex Co., N.Y.
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YALE UNIVERSITY
THE DIVINITY SCHOOL
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
July 30, 1935
Dear Glueck:
An idea has just struck me, and since it is right in your [?], I thought I’d write to you to see whether it had occurred to you or anybody else and what you think of it.
May there be some connection between the name of Kh. Balu’oh and that of Bil’an ben Be’or. That [?] should read [?] is well attracted and has been widely accepted. In that came the night continually be the Arnon, but I don’t find any modern place name in that vicinity which might correspond to [?]. Do you know of any? If there was a [?] thereabouts, a [?] or editor might early confine it with the [?] on the Euphrates. Of course the Bela’ ben Be’or of Gen. 36 was an Edomite – I don’t at the moment see any exploration of that, though it has been suggested that I regarded Balaan as an Ammonite, E as an Edomite. Anyway, the idea that struck me was the possibility of a (remote) connection with [?].
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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By the same post I take pleasure in sending you a copy of Das Wort hesed.
I am glad that there will be room for an index. I shall prepare it as soon as possible, and hope that it will not delay sending the rest of the Ms. to the printer.
My wife and I are leaving this Saturday for a two weeks at Blue Mountain House, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. From there we shall return directly to Cincinnati.
I trust you received the several pages of addenda I sent the other day, dealing with Alt’s new article on the ‘Arabah.
I have signed the bills and sent them on the bank for payment.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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August 13, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Many thanks for Das Wort hesed. I found it here when I returned this morning. This will reach you just about as you get back from Blue Mountain Lake, I imagine. I hope you had as good a time as we did at lake Placid.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. At Lake Placid I met Blegen, the Troy excavator, who spoke of you. Ethan Grant was there a couple of days, too.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
August 19, 1935
Dear Glueck:
A question for you:
The University Museum has decided that it wants to dig at Gawra next winter after all and has appropriated $12,000 for the purpose with the request that we contribute $5,500. You will remember that we included $7,500 in the budget for Gawra with the idea that we should simply lay it aside this year (not having the Museum’s help, as we then thought) and double it next year. Now since it is actually in this year’s budget, I see no reason why we should not go ahead and use from it the amount suggested. I shall of course ask whether you can see any difficulty in making the amount available this winter. It would be much better to make an actual contribution than to be merely nominal partners. The museum is willing to call it a joint dig even if we contribute nothing, since we have joint right with them in the site, but if we bear part of the expense we shall be in a better position to stand up for what we want in matters of staff, methods, publication, and the rest. Speiser, though not wholly pleased with the arrangement, favors going ahead. Incidentally, the Museum proposed to repeat the appropriation next year too.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Returning from my vacation trip, I found your letters of July 30 and Aug. 13. At the last moment, we decided to go to a small camp in the Great Smokies Mountains instead of Blue Mountain Lake, and we had a most enjoyable time riding, and walking, and swimming.
Your suggestion relating Bil’am ben Be’or – Bela’ ben Be’or to the name Balu’ah is a very interesting one, which had not occurred to me. It seems that Bela’ and Balu’ah can certainly be related. I came across no place which might be related to Pethor. I have just gotten out my maps and looked over the modern place names, and find none resembling Pethor. Balu’ah is on the south side of the Arnon in Moab. I can’t at the moment see any explanation which might satisfactorily identify the site of Balu’ah. I should imagine that Bela’ was a common name or part of a name of numerous individuals and places, being originally the name of a deity, as has been suggested. We did find an interesting figurine head at Balu-ah, as you will remember, apicture of which appears in Ann. XIV.
I should like to go back to T.J. sooner or later, to continue the archaeological exploration of Ammon and Midian, and to catch a lot of apparently important sites in Edom and Moab, which I could not visit during the previous trips. There is very much to be done, and I am anxious to finish what I have begun. Perhaps I shall go over early next summer, if the Schools will permit me to us whatever remains from the T.J. funds, after the extra costs of the Edom report have been paid for.
I have finished the indexing of the Moab report, and am now indexing the Edom report.
Sincerely, NG
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Aug. 23, 1935
Dear Burrows:
I see no objections to contributing $5,500 to a joint dig with the University Museum, particularly in as much as we have already budgeted $7,500 for the work at Gawra. We can use the difference very well for other purposes. More money is being spent on Gawra then in this coming campaign than we had forseen, and I am in favor of it, provided our rights are protected. I should like to know definitely as soon as possible, so that we can lay aside such a large amount of cash.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
August 26, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Thank you for your letter of the 23rd. Speiser has reached an agreement with Jayne by which we are to contribute only $3000 this year, the remainder of our $7500 appropriation being saved for next year’s campaign, as we originally planned. I have insisted that this arrangement is only tentative until our Trustees have ratified it, but in view of the fact that the amount is definitely set aside in the budget I cannot see why there should be any hitch. Jayne proposes to go ahead anyway, so I think I’ll wait until the college year gets started before trying to consult our Trustees.
I have your letter of the 21st also. Bela’ may very well have been originally a divine name, used in various place and personal names. The exact relation between it and the place Balu’ah may never be defined, not to mention Balaam.
The possibility of your continuing your survey next summer interests me. I am again playing with the idea of going back next summer, btu so many things may happen between now and then that I’m not banking on it at present.
I saw McCown in New York last week on his way over. He hopes to get to the meetings at Gottingen and Rome, if conditions don’t interfere too much with the latter meeting.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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I have finally completed the index. The few Biblical words have been given as they popularly used, and without diacritic marks. Thus Kadesh-Barnea and not Qadesh – …, and Kir-hareseth, and not Qir-haresheth. There are also a few names which I have enclosed in quotes, because they are taken directly from Frank’s Aus der ‘Araba, and transcribed in a manner different from ours. The index includes both parts, the pagination for the second part being omitted until I receive page proof.
In lieu of two additional maps, I have also included a special list of Bronze and Iron Age sites in Moab and Edom. It gives a clear picture of the extent of such sites, without the necessity of otherwise looking through both papers to determine their number.
When I receive the first proofs, I shall have to add the explanations of I and II to the List of Abbreviations. There are several other small changes and additions I shall have to include in the body of the text. Prof. Montgomery has sent me some most interesting quotations from Eusebius, which lend additional credence to the idea that the copper mines at Feinan were worked by slaves. The references from Eusebius deal with Christian martyrs in the Diocletianic persecution, who were condemned to the copper mines of Feinan.
Speiser wrote me some time ago that he had handed over the MS to the printer. I shall be glad to see the proofs.
I am hoping that it will be possible to include this Edom article in the Offprint Series as a companion to the Moab paper.
With cordial greetings,
As ever,
Nelson Glueck
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Sept. 27, 1935
Dear Burrows:
On Sept. 14 I sent you the Ms. of the index for parts I and II of the Moab and Edom articles. I hope you received it. Meanwhile I received the first proofs directly from Furst and Co. in Baltimore, and have gone over them very carefully. When I prepared plates 25-32, I thought that there would be two photographs put on one plate, and with the exception of pl. 30 numbered them accordingly, thus e.g. pl. 25:1-13 and 25:14-22. However, they have not been reduced and each photograph of pl. 25-32 has been given a full page. I am perfectly satisfied, but I am wondering whether the engraver did that on his own responsibility or not. Only pl. 30 is designated in the text as pl. 30a and pl. 30b. I have not added a and b to the plates 25-9.31-2 in the text, because that would have required a very large number of additions, and primarily because the sherds on each plate are numbered from 1-22 or from 1-23 as the case may be, and the reader would have no difficulty determining where say pl. 25:10 was to be found. If you feel that the text should contain the plate designations such as Pl. 25a and Pl. 25b please return pages 6.44-9 of the proof to me together with the plates, and I shall make the necessary additions. Another reason I did not make them now is because I am not certain whether or not you might instruct the engraver to do the plates over again, putting two photographs on one plate in order to save that now. However, that is for the editors to decide. I am very grateful for all the care the editors have taken with the Ms.
I did not receive proof of the map.
May I ask your unofficial, very candid opinion as to whether or not it would be perfectly proper to dedicate this article on Edom to the 60th anniversary of the Hebrew Union College, 1875-1935?
I am sending the corrected proofs by separate mail.
I propose to make up a tentative budget within the next week or so to send to you for your consideration. Will you please let me know if you desire any particular items entered. The Fisher pension will have to be determined. I have not gone over the figures yet, but I fear his present stipend will have to be radically reduced, perhaps to $1500, in accordance with Albright’s suggestion.
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 1, 1935
Dear Glueck:
The combination of registration week and moving has left me little time for correspondence. I see I have two letters of yours to answer.
You will notice that I made only one change in your index. Flinders Petrie is not a hyphenated name; I have therefore inserted Petrie under P, though I did not delete the item under F, as I really believe should be done. In the galley proof of the text I have also struck out the hyphen wherever you refer to Petrie, though I may have missed one of two instances. Somehow I failed to notice this matter in the manuscript.
With regard to the Offprint Series, Speiser points out that you probably don’t realize that you have the volume to yourself as things have worked out, and it will be a pretty fat volume at that. The whole bound volume sells for only $2.50, and the offprint would come to fully $2, so there really seems to be little point if any in having an offprint. If you feel strongly that the monograph should be included in the series to go with the Moab report, we might manage it, but the only advantage I can see would be to save a little on shipping costs for that many copies.
I’m sorry I didn’t catch the unfortunate mistake in the printing of the plates. We should have marked them more clearly, I’m afraid. Having two whole pages under the same number in several cases will look rather peculiar. Rather than have the plates made over I should think it would be better to remember them; if that is too big a job, the letters a and b ought to be added to the references in the text. I have sent the galleys back, but I think the additional letters could be supplied in correcting the page proof, though of course we shall have to pay for them as corrections.
The map was reduced too much and had to be done over. That is why your received no proof of it.
I shall be glad to see the tentative budget and study it. I have no preliminary suggestions. Fisher’s case distresses me, but I see no way out of making a cut in his salary or putting him on pension. If it can be managed we might cut his down part of the way this year and the rest of the way (i.e. to $1500) the following year, but that may not be practicable. I had thought of asking for a little subsidy for a trip to Palestine next summer myself, but I shan’t do it under the present circumstances, because it would have to be taken out of something else.
I almost forgot to speak of the matter of dedicating your article to the 60th anniversary of the Hebrew Union College. I see no objection whatever except the added expense of inserting new material after the matter is in type. It would be entirely appropriate and gracious, especially in view of the share the college had in your enterprise.
From one sentence in your last letter I infer that you have sent your corrected proofs to me. If so I shall insert the necessary letters myself in the references in Plates 25-32 on pp. 69.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. Not knowing yet whom we shall or can appoint as Albright’s successor, I don’t know how much we ought to appropriate for a director’s salary, but since we shall probably have to take a man of much less than Albright’s ability, experience, and standing, or else engage a director for half of the year only, I think we might say $3000 or (to be safe), $3500 instead of $4000. In case we have a half-year director, we might add something to the Annual Professor’s salary for service as Acting Director half of the year, if that wouldn’t be unfair to Kraeling and McCown (have we given them anything extra for this service?).
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 2, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Since writing you I have received your proofs and will make the corrections you mentioned.
I have received from a majority of the trustees letters approving the appropriation of three thousand dollars this year for Gawra and the payment of one thousand dollars as requested by Jayne by the fifteenth of this month. Can you manage to have one thousand dollars turned over to the University Museum in Philadelphia by that date? Please let me know at once if there is any difficulty about this.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Oct. 4, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I am sending you a voucher for your joint signature authorizing the payment of $1000 to the University of Pennsylvania Museum. By the same mail I am writing to the Provident Trust Co. asking them to postpone further investments until we shall have accumulated a $3000 reserve to be devoted to the joint Tepe Gawra expedition. I am informing the bank that a voucher is on its way from you authorizing the payment immediately of $1000, and have requested that I be informed if the necessary amount of money is not available at the present time.
Thanks very much for inserting the letters a and b wherever necessary in the proofs. I am sorry that you are having so much trouble. When I receive the galley proofs of the index there are several slips I shall be able to catch which became apparent from mistakes that I made in a few of the names in the text proper. I shall eliminate the reference to Flinderes Petrie under F. I am glad you caught the mistake.
I do not at all fell strongly about the inclusion of the Edom monograph in the Offprint Series to go with the Moab report. I should, however, like some extra copies of the Edom article for myself, 50 or 60 perhaps, (I shall be glad to pay for them), and I imagine that it will be cheaper to bind them in paper rather than in the hard cardboard covers of the regular Annual. Could you have five extra copies of the map struck off for me? They are for members of the Transjordan Government and Department of Antiquities.
I shall send you a tentative copy of the budget soon.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
P.S. If by any chance the galley proofs are still in your possession, will you please make the changes indicated on the enclosed p. 155 of the Ms., if I have not already made them? Otherwise I shall have to check them on the page proof. I think I may have excised the statement with regard to the Edomite influence on Nabataean pottery, and I should have included a concluding statement with regard to the date of Nabataen pottery, to conform with what I said about it in the text proper.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 11, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Herewith I am sending you the bill for Speiser’s Gawra volume with my signature. You can put in the authorization and your own signature.
Not having heard anything to the contrary I suppose the bank found the one thousand dollars for the Gawra excavation.
I did not receive your letter of the fourth in time to make the changes on the galley proofs for page 155 of the manuscript. As you said, you can make those changes in the page proof. I hope, however, that you will keep such changes down to a minimum because I am afraid you will have a rather high bill for author’s corrections. Perhaps a little list of agenda and corrigenda at the end would be better than too many changes in the proofs.
I note that your request about extra copies and will have them made for you, also the five extra copies of the map.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 14, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Herewith I am sending you the bill for the advertising of Speiser’s Gawra volume. There was an unfortunate misunderstand about the advertising arrangements which has left us holding the bag. Moon was in Philadelphia Saturday and discussed the matter with Speiser and the University Press. He found that Barton had signed a definite contract which makes us quite helpless. The amount of the bill has been explained in detail by Furst, and there is nothing we can do about that either.
I am inclosing also carbons of this bill and the one for the volume itself since I understand you wish to keep duplicates of such bills in your files.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Oct. 16, 1935
Dear Burrows:
It can’t be did. I can’t make a budget without money. If we regard as income available for budgetary purposes only the funds available from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Schofield , Jastrow, Nies and Peters Funds, we have a total of $12,500 plus about $250 to $275 from these smaller funds. If I am not misinformed, we receive from the Rockefeller Foundation during 1936 the sume of $25000. One half of that has already been included in the 1935-6 budget, amounting to $12500, which together with $15000 available for 1935, gave us the $27,500 available from the Rockefeller Foundation for 1936, with nothing promised for 1937. In working over the budget therefore, I find that I can only include $12,500 as available for our 1936-7 budget. You will realize that if we make the budget in the ordinary fashion, we shall not have enough money to run the Jerusalem School and pay for the items listed in the 1935-6 budget under Cerneral Expenses, not to speak of any kind of s salary for Fisher, or the planned additional appropriation of $7500 for Tepe Gawra. I have gone over the figures very carefully, and squeezed them till I got dry, but I could not find enough money for even a greatly reduced budget, unless we use other funds which are available.
There is one way out, and that is to include in our budget those funds which we have been setting aside for endowment purposes, and which have been doubled then by the Rockefeller Foundation at the end of the actual year. We have been setting aside thus each year our income from the Annual, Bulletin, contributing institutions and persons, and from investments. Last year this amount was $9,950.43, which was doubled by the Rockefeller Foundation. There will probably be a similar amount this year. Personally, I think it would be a mistake to adopt this procedure, because in effect it means that if we expend the approximately $10,000 which will have accumulated this year, we shall lose a like amount from the Rockefeller Foundation. We cannot afford to lost that much.
The only other way out of the difficulty which occurs to me is to dig into our endowment fund proper. I should think, however, that such a step ought to be approved first by the Rockefeller Foundation, and secondly it goes against my grain to touch our endowment funds. As it is our income from investments will be somewhat less this year than last, because a number of our holdings have been called in, and have had to be replaced with bonds yielding less interest.
We have reached our financial impasse. I think something ought to be done immediately. I suggest that the Rockefeller Foundation be approached at once, and also that you go to New York and have a conference with Mr. Warburg. If you get deem it necessary, I shall be glad to come east and attend such a conference, although I don’t know what I could add to the information you already possess.
Mr. Patten writes me that he expects to be in New York in December for the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of American and plans also to attend the Annual Meeting of our Schools. May I suggest that you write to him, and tell him that we shall be particularly gratified if he will attend the Schools’ meetings in view of our need for his advice with regard to our finances. I am afraid that our meetings will conflict with those of the Institute.
I am not sending an itemized budget, because under the circumstances it is useless. I am writing to Barton to be sure that I am correct about the amount available from the Rockefeller Foundation, but I think I am. Last year I reported at the December meeting that there would be only $12,500 available for this year.
Even if funds for a fairly normal budget somehow or other become available, I don’t think the Annual Professor should receive more than $2000, although it may be necessary for him also to carry on for half of each year as Acting Director. If we are to be able to continue paying an Annual Professor, I am afraid that we shall have to reduce the present signed.
So much for the budget. I have received page proof of the Edom article, and am working on the pagination of the index. Thanks very much for inserting the letters A and B after the plate numbers. I have rechecked them. The printers sent me a copy of the map, which seems to have been made from the very first plate of the map you wrote me about, and which is much too small for practical use. I am sending to you immediately by the same mail the proof of the first cover pages. Which I also checked while I was at it. I have writing in a dedication which I thought might be placed on a page similar to Albright’s dedication to Kyle, if the editors approve.
The payment of $1000 for the Gawra excavation was made, and the other two thousand have been ear-marked, and will be sent whenever the bank receives another voucher from us.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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Oct. 19, 1935
Dear Burrows:
I have the $157 bill for the advertising of Speiser’s Gawra volume, and sent it on the bank. The total cost of this volume now amounts to $2327.10, exceeding by $77.10 the $2250 provided for this volume in our budget.
I have also received the enclosed bill for 821 francs, which we shall have to pay although there is no provision for it in the budget. However, there is enough leeway in our budget to take care of both of these items.
Are you taking care of the bills which Moon used to send me, or is it just a temporary arrangement.
Will you show the enclosed letter to Moon, and then have it returned to me please? It will answer part of his letter to me of Oct. 1, 1935. I am writing to him also separately.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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WESTERN UNION
Oct 19, 1935
Professor Nelson Glueck
162 Glenmary Ave
Will see Warburg Tuesday meet me if possible at Adler’s office at three thirty
Burrows
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Oct. 29, 1935
Dear Burrows:
By separate mail I am sending you the corrected page proof. You were right with regard to what you said you had written me concerning the transcription of Shera. I have changed Medain to Medain. I am also sending the Ms. of the Index with all of the page numbers put in.
Dr. Morgenstern returned to town Saturday, and yesterday, Monday, was the first chance I had to talk to him, and then only for a few minutes, about our meeting with Warburg. We are going to talk about the matter again shortly. He was much more receptive of the idea of another leave-of-absence for me than I thought he might at first be. To be sure that does not mean that he may decide that is impossible to let me go away again. I shall keep you informed of the progress of our conversations.
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
P.S. I am sending on the Index Ms. to you although in a recent letter Speiser told me to send it directly to the printer. I thought it might all just as well go to the printer together.
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Oct. 30, 1935
Dear Burrows:
In the course of our conversations, Dr. Morgenstern has told met hat after all he has received no communication of any kind from the American Schools with regard to our conversations in New York. I explained, and he understood that I was presenting the matter both for myself, and for you also so far as the actual facts are concerning. Naturally, I have not ventured to say anything with regard to whatever your own reactions may be either personally or as President of the American Schools of Oriental Research. A large meeting of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College took place yesterday. Dr. Morgenstern gave me to understand that the matter of an extended leave of absence in case the directorship of the American Schools were eventually to be offered me came up for discussion between him and several of the most influential members of the Board of Governors. If I am not badly mistaken, the reaction of these members of our Board of Governors was not negative. I am wondering whether or not you might not now consider it advisable to write to Dr. Morgenstern yourself, and present to him your understanding of our conversations with Mr. Warburg and Dr. Adler in New York, and inquire, if you deem it advisable, as to whether or not it might be possible for me to secure a leave of absence from the HUC to accept the directorship if it were to be offered to me. I have told Dr. Morgenstern that in case such an offer eventualizes, I should like to secure a leave-of-absence for two, preferably three years.
With regard to another matter, that of the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of American which coincides with the meeting of the Schools in New York this coming December. It has occurred to me that it might be opportune for the Schools to take advantage of the opportunity thus offered, and at least let the membership of the Archaeological Institute become familiar with the natural of our Schools and the character of the work we do. This might partially be done, for instance, as it strikes me at the moment, by some of us, e.g. you, Kraeling, Speiser, myself, giving a symposium of talks, illustrated perhaps, on the recent activities of the Schools.
I sent off the corrected page proof and the Ms. of the Index to you yesterday. I assumed you have found the larger copy of the map which I returned to you together with the original map packed in a tube.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 1, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have received and then gone through your corrected page proofs and have sent them on to Speiser. I have also sent him the original map and the marked copy of it which I found with it. With regard to the two names which have caused us so much trouble, I think we are in agreement but I have changed the final spelling of each as you gave it in your corrected proof. In Shera’, since there is no accent on the final syllable, it is understood (according to our customary procedure) that the first syllable is accented. I have, therefore, omitted the acute accent. In Median, I do not understand why you have omitted the hamzeh. It certainly belongs there, and I have re-inserted it.
This morning your letter of the 30th came. I shall write to Dr. Morgenstern as you suggest.
Your suggestion regarding the meeting of the AIA agrees with what I have had in mind all along. The secretary assured me last spring that he would be glad to have a few representatives of the ASOR on the program and would try to see that they had good places. I had thought of you and Kraeling and Speiser as the men who would have most to say that was new and important. While you politely suggest that I, too, should speak, and while as President of the Schools I should like to do so, I have done nothing recently in the Archaeological line and, therefore, would have nothing in particular to say. Of course, I might report in a general way the progress of our work, but I am not sure that this would be suitable.
I am to see the Rockefeller Foundation people Monday afternoon. When we know how we stand with them, we can tell better what to do with regard to the Directorship and next year’s budget.
While I am writing, let me mention something I have had in mind for some time. Can you send us the negatives of some of the photographs used in your contributions to the Annual so that we may make slides of them for our lecture sets? We need more pictures for these sets and some of yours would be good for this purpose.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Nov. 13, 1935
Dear Burrows:
You certainly have taken great pains with my article, and I am ever so grateful to you. Two days ago I received the page proof of the index from the printer, with the request that I correct it and send it back at the earliest possible moment. I corrected it and returned it the same day, so that I guess the article ought now to be going through the final printing. I assume that the changes I had noted in the body of the corrected page proof proper were taken notice of by the printer. The spelling Medain in which you preferred is certainly acceptable to me. I had put it in the form of Medain finally to conform with the spelling of Medain as used in the index of Bulletin 50.
Thank you for writing to Dr. Morgenstern. He called me into his office the other day, and we talked the whole situation over again. As a result of our conversations, he told me finally that he is inclined to recommend another leave-of-absence for me for a period of three years, and that if a request comes from the American Schools in the form of invitation to the directorship of the Jerusalem School, he would recommend to the HUC Board of Governors that I be granted a leave-of-absence for three years. It is furthermore quite possible, I believe, that in that connection Dr. Morgenstern may recommend to the HUC Board of Governors that I be promoted from associate to full professor at the HUC.
In accordance with Moon’s letter received several days ago, I have written to Mr. Patten and to Dr. Sellers to secure an interview with Mr. Patten. If Mr. Patten consents to such an interview, I shall go up to Chicago and see him together with Sellers.
Dr. Morgenstern and I have an appointment to see a Mr. Warrington here in Cincinnati this Friday morning. He is the chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Cincinnati, is a very wealthy man, and is interested in Greek archaeology. If we can interest him in our cause, there are several others who I am sure can be interested also. There are a number of people here in town who have contributed liberally to Blegen’s excavations at Troy. They are all connected with the local branch of the Archaeological Society, and I told them last year about the work of our Schools in general and about Edom in particular when I lectured to a large group at Mr. Warrington’s house.
I shall be glad to make as many trips to as many places as may be deemed advisable to visit in order to assist in this endowment campaign.
With regard to the AIA meeting, is it your thought that some of us separately announce subjects for discussion, or would you as President care to suggest to the AIA a program of several successive talks by some of our men to present a connected picture to the AIA of the work the Schools.
Naturally all the pictures used in my contributions to the Annual are at your disposal for use in the lecture sets of the Schools. Have you an idea of which particular pictures your desire to use? I shall be glad to send you my negative books, which by now include imagine about 500 pictures connected with Palestinian and Transjordanian archaeology, and you can select whether you think desirable. Please let me know.
Sincerely yours,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 15, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Just a note to acknowledge your letter of the 13th. Congratulations on the possibility (I hope it is more than that) of promotion at the HUC.
I am glad to hear that you are taking steps toward an interview with Mr. Patten. I am also much interested in what you say about Mr. Warrington.
With regard to the AIA meetings, I had not thought of having several successive talks by our men but I think it is a good idea. Professor Ward writes that he wants the titles and brief abstracts of papers as soon as possible. If you can send me your title and abstract I will gladly send it to him with the others.
If your book of negatives is not too large and heavy I should like very much to see it and pick from it pictures which would be especially useful for our lecture sets. I imagine, however, that you could do the selecting as well as I could. It seems to me we have two things to keep in mind: (a) pictures which show things that are really important, and (b) pictures which will interest an audience.
I have signed the orders for payment and sent them to Mr. Foster.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Nov. 19, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Sellers and I saw Mr. Patten Saturday morning in Chicago. He was very friendly. I explained the situation of the Schools in detail to him. He then told us that he had many commitments, could not offer anything like the amount Warbug had suggested, but that he would give us $500. I thought his offer was a very generous one, and told him so. He has been on of the largest contributors to the Schools. He said, however, that he had exceeded his budget for this year, and could not give us a check immediately, but would have to wait till after Jan. 1.
With regard to the AIA meeting, there is nothing new that I can talk about. I might talk about the Copper Mines of King Solomon, and tell the AIA something about the work we did last time. The members of the AIA probably know little or nothing about that particular work. I shall enclose a brief statement. If you think that it is the kind of material to present, send it in to Prof. Ward. Otherwise I have no new archaeological work to report on.
Dr. Morgenstern and I had a long talk with Mr. Warrington last Friday. We did not ask him immediately for money, but suggested a meeting at the University, where Sellers would give an address and Morgenstern would tell the people about the Schools, and then we would approach individuals for money. That meeting will be arranged for some time this week. I imagine that Dr. Morgenstern will write you in more detail about the developments.
I shall select negatives for you, and send them on to you, and then bring the negative books with me east at Xmas time. Many of the negatives have not yet been placed in proper books.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 20, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter of the 19th. The title and abstract seem to me quite suitable.
Mr. Patten has already written to me about his gift.
I am glad to hear about the talk with Mr. Warrington and the plan for a public meeting. Here’s hoping there will be some good results.
At Philadelphia last Sunday we discussed among other things the question of your successor as Treasurer if you become Director of the Jerusalem School. Montgomery suggested that a friend of his, Mr. Ashton, whom we may be able to get as a Trustee, might make a good treasurer also. He is a retired business man of some prominence in Philadelphia and is interested in our work. Please let me know of any ideas you have on this subject.
If I hear affirmatively from the Trustees regarding your appointment as Director, as I expect to, I shall inform Mr. Warburg at once, and I hope he will make his gift in time for us to plan next year’s budget accordingly. We have several possibilities open now which were not in sight a month or so ago.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. At Philadelphia Sunday those of us who were there agreed that for next year we should put fisher on part time with a salary of $1500. This will not establish the precedent of giving a pension, and it will keep him under an obligation to do some work for us, if there is anything for him to do. We can explain to him both that we are short of funds and that we have no [?] for him to do, thus [?]. I expect to recommend this when we meet.
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Nov. 24, 1935
Dear Burrows:
If I am appointed Director and it becomes necessary then to appoint a new treasurer, I think that the suggestion to get Mr. Ashton both as treasurer and trustee is an excellent one. I had intended to suggest that Cadbury combine the office of secretary and treasurer, with the promise on my part that I should be glad to relieve him whenever I returned if it were deemed desirable. However, I think it would be an excellent move to secure the services of Mr. Ashton is possible. There is some advantage to have the treasurer reside in Philadelphia, particularly if we retain our connection with the Provident Trust Co, as I think we should, despite their request for a considerable increase in the amount of compensation allowed them for their services. I must say, however, that there has been absolutely no difficulty conducting business with the Provident Trust Co. by mail as I have been doing for the last two years.
It might indeed be well to consider the $1500 to be allowed Fisher a salary and not a pension, so that the Schools might retain some active claim upon his services. Albright has, as you know, suggested the sum of $1500 for him. Albright has furthermore suggested that from 1938-8 on the salary of the Annual Professor be reduce to $1500 or even $1000. I am not sure but that it might be wiser to dispense for a while with the Annual Professor in order to find funds for the Thayer and Nies Fellows. However, I think that both Annual Professor and Fellows are very important for the School, and both ought to be retained with some stipend even if other undertakings must suffer. I do not see at the present how we can possibly appropriate another $7500 for Tepe Gawra, as anxious as all of us are to complete the week there in the most excellent manner possible. It may be necessary to reduce that amount very radically, as reluctant as we may be to do so. Albright urges strongly in a recent letter that the stipends for the fellowships be restored. I suggest that we attempt to budget a minimum of $1000 for fellowships.
I note in your letter of Nov. 19 to the Trustees and the Executive Committee that the question of the salary I am to receive if I am appointed director is to be taken up at the December meeting. I hope that side from traveling expenses will be he same I previously received as Director. Even so I should be receiving $1400 less than I would have been receiving from the HUC next year, when my salary would have been $6400, not to speak of the $300 I receive from the University of Cincinnati.
Mr. Patten suggested that it might make a good impression upon the Rockefeller Foundation if all of the members of the Trustees of the American Schools would contribute some sum, however, small to the Endowment Fund. Much cannot be expected, because almost all of the trustees are professors with comparatively small salaries.
I am enclosing a voucher for your co-signature. Speiser has probably written you about the maps which young Montgomery made for me, and which I suggested to Speiser in reply to his telegraphic inquiry be inserted with the big map in the back of the Annual. One is a map of Bronze Age Moab and Edom, and the other a map of Iron Age Moab and Edom.
Sincerely,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 25, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I believe Moon has written to you about sending in your annual report for the December Bulletin. I am trying to save him time for the financial campaign by looking after some of the work on the Bulletin, so I am sending this reminder. The material should go to the printer very soon if the Bulletin is to be out on time.
When we met in Philadelphia, Montgomery suggested that we should communicate with the executor that we should communicate with the executor of the Nies estate and fine what is the present value of the estate. From my correspondence of last year I understand that Mr. Wise send you statements with regard to the estate. If you do not have full information, it might be well for you to write to him. In any case I think the matter should be handled by you rather than by me.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 27, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Some time ago Moon wrote me with regard to financial statement for the Bulletin. We have in the past published only the Condensed Cash Statement. I wrote him to get the statement from you. Some time ago I sent you the Annual Financial Statement and the Condensed Cash Statement for the fiscal year ending June 1935. If you haven’t them at hand please let me know, and I shall send you my copy. I have also sent Moon the letter from Wheeler, Crosbie and Co., Philadelphia, our Accountants. He has excerpted the pertinent paragraph and already returned the letter to me. So I think you already have the material necessary for the December Bulletin. Will you please, by the way, have the December 1934 issue of the Bulletin, and the Dec. 1935 issue sent to Mr. F. Ralph Wheeler, Wheeler, Crosbie and Co., Widener Bldg., Phil., Pa?
I am writing immediately to the City Bank Farmers Trust Co. to find out what is the present value of the Nies Estate. To judge from the one semi-annual check I have received, our income from that source has not changed when compared to last year’s income. The statements I have been receiving do not indicate the present value of the estate.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 27, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I am glad to know that you think it would be a good idea to get Mr. Ashton as treasurer if we can.
I note what you say about budgetary matters. No further comment seems necessary.
I intend to write a personal note to each of our Trustees asking for some contribution, however small, for the Endowment Fund.
With regard to the maps made by Montgomery’s son, I am signing the voucher and sending it to Mr. Foster. I must register a protest, however, against having such work done without the knowledge of either Speiser or me. Speiser writes that he has looked into the matter of having the maps engraved and put in a pocket in the cover of the volume, and the cost does not seem prohibitive. The volume is going to be somewhat expensive however.
Your salary, if you are appointed Director of the Jerusalem School, should certainly be what it was before. I have no idea that the Trustees would want it otherwise. The reason I put the matter as I did in my circular letter was that I thought it should not go entirely unmentioned, but I did not think it could be definitely disposed of apart from the adoption of the budget. I did not realize, I must say, that you would make such a sacrifice in salary by leaving HUC for a few years. Very few institutions, I imagine, can pay such salaries as you people get. I only hope you will feel the sacrifice is well worth while, because I hardly think we could afford in any case to pay a higher salary than we have paid in the past.
I have sent the title and abstract of your paper for the AIA to Professor Ward, along with one from Speiser. I am hoping that we may also have something on Jerash from Kraeling or Stinespring, but I am not sure if this will be feasible.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 29, 1935
Dear Glueck:
Enclosed you will find the checks which are now in hand in the office and which are made out to the Schools. They are as follows:
$100 from Loomis Burrell
$100 from James R. Jewett
$50 from E. A. Speiser
Sorry I did not understand about the financial report to be used in the Bulletin. I have the condensed cash statement which you sent sometime ago, and I am sending to Furst today.
The December 1934 Bulletin is being sent to Mr. Wheeler, and the December 1935 number will be sent to him when it comes out.
The question I raised about the Nies Estate had to do with the amount which would come to the Baghdad School eventually, rather than the income to be expected from the Estate next year. I should have made that more clear. The Rockefeller Foundation people raised the question when moon and I saw them with regard to an extension of time for raising our endowment.
The Annual has come and I am very pleased with it. The plates have come out beautifully. I must admit I am a bit sore about the extra maps, because I never saw them and had no opportunity to correct them, and I notice there are several mistakes in the place names. None the less, the volume does credit to us all, and most of all, of course, to you. With last year’s volume this will make a standard work of reference for many years to come, and it puts your reputation as a scholar on a very solid foundation. I congratulate you on the job.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 3, 1935
Dear Glueck:
A few days ago I wrote to Mr. Warburg informing him that I could definitely count eleven of our fifteen Trustees as in favor of your appointment to the Directorship of the Jerusalem School. The other four have not been heard from (one of the, of course, being Breasted, and Moulton being in Palestine). No adverse vote has been received. I asked Mr. Warburg whether he would consider this information sufficient to make his gift in time for an announcement in the December Bulletin. This morning I have received an answer stating that he is pleased at the news and expects to see Dr. Morgenstern on the 6th and that if the matter “goes through” he and Mrs. Warbug will continue $50,000.
Of course, there had to be one catch. Mr. Warburg says he will send $5,000 at once and $5,000 each year for the next nine years. He also says that the gift can be counted as part of our “permanent fund”. I take it that the last statement means that the conditions of the gift will not prevent having it doubled by the Rockefeller Foundation, but I do not know whether they will be willing to double a gift stretched out over such a long term. Furthermore, receiving only $5,000 each year will not simplify our budget problem for the immediate future as much as I had hoped. Perhaps you can talk this matter over with Dr. Morgenstern before he leaves for New York, though I do not know that Mr. Warburg would be willing to change the arrangement even if we all agree that we should like to have him. Anyway, I thought you had better have this information at once.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 4, 1935
Dear Glueck:
I have your two letters and your check, for which many thanks.
With regard to the maps, I think we are fortunate in being able to take them out of practically all of the volumes before they are shipped. The whole matter is one of misunderstanding all around, and I am sure we can profit by the experience and avoid such mix-ups in the future. I should think, while you do not say so definitely, that it would be well to take out the E. I. map as well as the B. A. one; unless I hear a protest from you or Speiser, I shall have this done with maps sent from this office. The expense you have undergone will then be the only unfortunate consequence.
I am returning herewith you letter to young Montgomery. It had never entered my head that the mistakes in the maps were due to any carelessness on your part. I do not have the original of your large map. I sent it either to Speiser or to Furst – to Speiser, I think. I have the negatives of your pottery plates, however, and will send them to you if you want them.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Dec. 8, 1935
Dear Burrows:
Dr. Morgenstern had already left for New York when your letter arrived concerning the details of Mr. Warburg’s offer. Perhaps Mr. Warburg extended the payment of his gift over ten years so as to make it possible for the Rockefeller Foundation to match it dollar for dollar. Mr. Warburg might change the details the arrangement perhaps if proper representations were made to him.
I am delighted to learn that all of the eleven trustees who have thus far been hear from are in favor of my appointment to the Directorship of the Jerusalem School.
I imagine that Dr. Morgenstern has already written you about the recent action of the trustees of the U. of the Cinti. who have accepted the invitation extended through Dr. Morgenstern for the U. of C. to become a corporation member of our Schools. We hope to be able to report other results later on in the year, after we have had Sellers down here. I am to address the members of the Taft Museum next month, which will enable me again to publicize the work of the Schools. I am sending copies of the Annual to several people whom I propose to solicit for money for the Schools later on.
I agree that it will be just as well to remove the EI map also. Will you please have the BA and EI maps put aside. Perhaps they can be corrected by hand and subsequently sent to some of the subscribers to the Annual.
There are a number of people, particularly in TJ to whom I should like to have the Annual sent in recognition of the assistance rendered the expedition. I believe that the names of most of them are on the mailing list of those to whom the Schools have been sending copies of the annual. Will you let me know please if the following names on that list: Col. Peake; Col. Cox; Major Kirkbride; Major Jarvis; Mr. Horsfield; Mr. Head; Dr. Magnes; Dr. Schloessinger; Dr. Canaan. Otherwise I shall want to send them copies which I have.
It is not necessary to send me the negatives of the pottery plates. I believe Moon likes to keep them on file.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 13, 1935
Dear Glueck:
In your letter of the 8th you named several men to whom you would like to have the Annual sent. Six of the names you give are on the mailing list here; those who are not are Major Kirkbirde, Major Jarvis and Dr. Canaan. I presume you will send copies to these three yourself.
I have not yet heard from Dr. Morgenstern concerning the interview he had with Mr. Warburg last week. When I do, it might be possible to discuss further the budget for next year. While we cannot make out anything like a final budget as yet, I think it would be well to formulate as definitely as we can the possibilities before us. Just now it seems to me that the best thing we can do is to give up the idea of counting Mr. Warburg’s gift toward the endowment, and instead use it for the Director’s salary for the next ten years. If we can get the Rockefeller Foundation to do as Mr. Appleget suggested, namely, to grant us for current expenses $50,000 out of the remaining $200,000 set aside, we can use $10,000 a year for the next five years. With Mr. Warburg’s $5000 and the $10000 regular income, this would make $25000 a year for the next five years. That would give us a budget not too much smaller than this year’s budget to be within the bounds of possibility. Of course, within those five years we should have to raise a good deal more money in order to continue beyond that time. Have you any better ideas?
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 9, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Enclosed you will find Mr. Warburg’s cheque for $5,000. I pass it on to you for deposit, but I am glad it was sent to me first, so that I might have the thrill of actually seeing and handling it.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 9, 1936
Dear Burrows:
The enclosed letter from the City Bank Farms Trust Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., furnishes the desired information with regard to the Nies Estate. Will you please return the letter to me when you have finished reading it, or having it copied for your files?
On p. 2 of your letter to me dated October 24, 1934 you write: “…I see that I have noted on my copy of the budget for this year that Kraeling’s $250, Stinespring’s $250, and the $250 for Dr. Fisher’s travelling expenses were all to be taken from a sum of $1000 transferred from the Harvard-Nuzi volume to the Jerusalem School, according to the action recorded on p. 3 of the minutes of the Executive Committee’s meeting on Dec. 27, 1933”. I assume that that is a different $1,000 than the like sum still carried on our budget as appropriated but yet unexpected for the Nuzi volume. Will you please clear up this point for me?
I have been going over the budget again, and in my next letter will send you a revised budget. I believe that I shall be able to show an estimated income for 1936-7 at least $1,000 larger than I was able to present at the December meeting.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 13, 1936
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter of the ninth with enclosures. The order on the bank is being forwarded, and I return herewith the letter regarding the Nies Estate, which I have had copied for my files.
The budget for 1934-35 as originally submitted included $2,500 for the Harvard-Nuzi volume. This was reduced (p. 3, Minutes of Executive Committee, Dec. 27th, 1933) to $1,500, the remaining $1,000. If this was done, the $1,000 still carried on our budget as appropriated for the Nuzi volume but still unexpended could not be this $1,000 but must be the balance left from the other $1,500. Whether or not that is actually the case depends upon how much has actually been paid to date for the Harvard -Nuzi volume. I am afraid that is all I can say to clear up the matter. The rest will have to be determined from your records.
I am glad the prospective income for 1936-7 looks larger than it did. Let’s hope it keeps on growing.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 17, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Miss Jane M. McHugh, Assistant Treasurer of the University Museum, has written asking that the balance of $2,000 for Tepe Gawra be paid at this time. Please have the payment made, if the money is available, or pay such portion as may be available and have the rest paid as soon as possible.
I have received today from Dr. Wilson of the Oriental Institute what sounds to me like a rather snippy reply to my inquiry regarding the honorarium for our Annual Professors next year. He says Graham and Olmstead accepted the appointments with the understanding that they would each receive $2,000, and he as much as says that we need not come begging to them to meet our obligations. I am sending him today a statement of the situation which I hope will be a sufficient reminder of the circumstances under which these appointment were made.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 22, 1936
Dear Burrows:
Enclosed please find for your co-signature a voucher for the $2,000 payment to the U. of P. Museum. I hope that the Museum will be equally prompt in meeting its commitment next year for Tepe Gawra. Will you please send the voucher to the designated address? I was out of town for a few days, and therefore the delay in answering your letter of Jan. 17.
I am not at all surprised at the apparent reaction of the Oriental Institute to your letter of inquiry regarding the honorarium for the Annual Professors next year. I had felt that difficulties might arise, but now that the die is cast, so to speak, believe that we ought to stick by our guns, or at least sherds. I discussed the matter with Dr. Morgenstern today, and he feels most emphatically that the decision to reduce the stipend for the Annual Professors in half was well advised.
Sincerely,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 24, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Enclosed is a bill for two items of my own expenses, which I am sending to you directly rather than having it included in Mr. Moon’s account, because neither item is really connected with his work.
My trip to New York this morning was made for a hurried consultation with Olmstead, who spoke last night at the dinner of the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology. He had written that he could not come up to New Haven and would be glad to talk things over with me if I could come down to New York, and I thought I had better go, because our relations with the Oriental Institute seem to be in a pretty bad snarl. I think the conference was worth the trip. The expenses were somewhat higher than usual for the trip to New York, because I usually drive down, and besides I had to take an extra fare, all Pullman train in order to get back in time for a class this afternoon.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
January 29, 1936
To the Executive Committee
Gentlemen:
At our recent meeting I was instructed to approach the Oriental Institute and inquire as to the possibility of their contributing $1,000 toward the renumeration of each of our Annual Professors for next year, in order that they might not suffer a 50% out in the compensation they had been expecting. I wrote accordingly to Mr. Charles Breasted, who referred my letter to Dr. Wilson, the Scientific Secretary (now the acting Director). Dr. Wilson replied in what seemed to me a distinctly unpleasant tone, to the effect that they had troubles of their own and that we need come to them for help in ours. While recognizing that this settled the matter, I wrote again attempting to explain and justify our position, and I have to reply to this letter which is formally friendly but hardly affectionate.
Meanwhile, our minutes went out, and it unfortunately did not occur to any of us that Professor Olmstead would receive them and learn in rather abrupt fashion of our action. I received a long letter from Professor Olmstead expressing his attitude on this and several other matters and inviting me to come down to New York for a talk with him while he was there to address the Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology. I went down, and while we had very little time and the interview was too hurried to be entirely satisfactory, I think it was worth while.
Both as a result of these experiences and on general principles I feel personally that we ought, by all means, to keep next year’s figure at $2,000 for each of these two men, if we can possibly do so. Since the Rockefeller appropriation carries over for half of our next fiscal year, and Mr. Patten made a gift of $500 specifically for next year’s budget, it seems to me that we ought to be able to avoid the out in the annual Professor’s stipend for another year. After that we can make it without embarrassment.
I should like to have your reactions on this matter. A meeting would be helpful, but I shall not try to call one immediately.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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Feb. 3, 1936
Dear Burrows:
You will recall that at the last meeting I was worried about the reaction of the Oriental Institute to the reduction in salaries of the Annual Professors next year. The “unpleasant tone” of Dr. Wilson’s answer to your letter confirms my fears. On the other hand it arouses in me a feeling of extreme regret and considerable annoyance that the Oriental Institute continues to conduct itself with regard to the ASOR in an unfriendly and inconsiderate manner.
My first reaction is that we ought to maintain our course now that we have taken the step we did. I am convinced that even if we restore the salary cut the Oriental Institute will not change its attitude towards us. However, considerations of a practical nature compel me to approve of your suggestion that we refrain from reducing the $2,000 stipend to be paid to each of the Annual Professors next year. I am concerned about the influence that might be brought to bear against the ASOR with the Rockefeller Foundation.
Has the Rockefeller foundation agreed definitely to grant the ASOR $10,000 a year for the next five years?
What has been the reply of the U. of Chicago to the suggestion that it pay also $100 annually to the Baghdad School.
How are your plans progressing for a visit to Palestine this summer? I hope that you can go into Midian with me. It would be grand if you and Butin could come along.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 5, 1936
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter of the 3rd. I am glad you agree with me about the stipend of our Annual Professors for next year, and the consideration you mention is an added argument. The same mail brought a letter from Professor Morgenstern expressing a strong feeling that we should make the reduction proposed at our meeting, or at most pay $1,500. Perhaps you can talk further with him about it and make clearer the reasons for our feeling.
The Rockefeller Foundation has not been approached as yet definitely with regard to the extension of time or the grant of $10,000 a year for current expenses. Mr. Stevens strongly advised us to raise all we could before presenting our request, and said it would not be necessary to apply formally until later in the year. We shall have to do so in time to get an answer before our April meeting, but I should like to wait as long as possible.
The University of Chicago has not been asked to contribute to the Baghdad School unless this has been done recently by Dr. Morgenstern’s new committee. Olmstead objected strongly, and I communicated his objections to Dr. Morgenstern.
My plans for next summer have not changed. I am still hoping to be able to go, and should certainly like to join you in exploring Midian. It will be great if Father Butin can go.
Moon is on the road practically all the time now, but I will have the stationery sent you.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrow
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 7, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Enclosed you will find a check for $250 just received from Dr. Moulton. He says it is the first installment toward a $1,000 which he hopes to raise. When he wrote, he had not yet heard from me, and apparently my cablegram was never delivered to him for he says nothing about the proposition that he become Treasurer.
Will you let me know just how next year’s budget stands in your mind at present? Should we approach the Foundation at once about the appropriation for current expenses, in order to plan definitely for next year’s budget?
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 17, 1936
Dear Glueck:
I have your letter of the 14th with your revised budget. Much obliged. One thing in the statement of estimated income puzzles me. You have put down $350 as Trustee’s gifts. You have also $480 attributed to “Moulton and additional gifts from others”. Moulton’s gift should be counted with the Trustees gifts, and perhaps there are other Trustee gifts included in the $480. According to my notes we have received here the following amounts from Trustees: Barton $100, Butin $50, Lord $10, Moulton $250, Torrey $10, Grant $100. I am under the impression that Dr. Morgenstern has given $50 to you directly, but I am not sure. Dr. Adler promised $25; I am not sure whether that has been received or not. Montgomery promised an undesignated amount, and Newell and Olmstead have not made gifts or pledges, so far as I know. Of course, the Warburg and Patten gifts are counted separately. Whenever they are counted, you doubtless have included all of these.
I shall try to get our application in to the Rockefeller Foundation soon. I have written to Mr. Stevens for an appointment to discuss the matter with him, and I am hoping that Albright will be able to go with me. If we are allowed to apply any of our appropriation to current expenses, we shall be able to restore the stipends for Fellowships. I certainly hope this will be possible.
The only application to the A C L S this year from any one conneted with the Schools, so far as I know, was Speiser’s. He asked, you remember, for money to make an archaeological survey in Persia preceding the Tepe Gawra campaign. I understand that the A C L S at its recent meeting found itself without any funds whatever for new projects, though I was told that something would probably be found somewhere for Speiser. I am afraid it would be too late anyway to make any application for aid for next year.
The statement of your plans for exploring Midian is most exciting. Your remark that some of the territory you want to visit is in Hejaz recalls to my mind the fact that in 1934 I had a communication from the Department of State to the effect that the Saudi government was not unfavorably disposed toward archaeological wor in its territory. If you have any idea of operating within the limits of Saudi Arabia, I think it would be a good idea for us to get in touch with the Department of State and see whether definite authorization and protect may be secured.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 19, 1936
Dear Glueck:
I have just received the following telegram from Moon:
“North Atlantic Conference advanced steamer rates effective after next Friday. Can save $200 by depositing $700 for Seminar tickets. Must make deposit anyway a month from now. Entire deposit returnable in 2 months or applicable to fare. Think advisable. Wire Glueck if you agree.”
If the amount is available I think we had better make the deposit now. I am enclosing, therefore, a note of authorization with my signature which you may sign if you see fit and sent to Moon at the old Philadelphia address. He can then present it himself at the bank.
I am to see Mr. Stevens soon, as I said in my last letter. Can you send me as ammunition for this interview a statement, in as impressive form as possible, of the gifts received thus far for Endowment? I should like to be able to show that we have not been entirely idle.
I have not yet managed to study thoroughly the suggested budget you sent me, but I am a little doubtful about the reduction of the Endowment Committee’s appropriation to $4,000. Moon is spending practically all his time now away from the office, and his expense accounts between now and June will undoubtedly be much larger than they have been in the past. We shall probably not have as much balance left this year as in former years. But, however, it is a matter to be determined later.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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WESTERN UNION
Dr. Nelson Glueck
Hebrew Union College
Moon can save two hundred dollars on seminar tickets by depositing seven hundred before Friday please if possible wire him this amount at Old Philadelphia address.
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 2, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Thank you for the fat envelope full of contributions which I received from you this morning. I have not yet had time to study it carefully, but it will be a great help in preparing for my interview with Mr. Stevens Friday.
I shall write to the Department of State with regard to the Midian expedition.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 9, 1936
Dear Glueck:
I have written to Mr. Murray of the Department of State about the matter of getting authorization and protection for your expedition from the Saudi Arabian government. He replays that, since our Government has no representative in Saudi Arabia, the best thing to do would be to write directly to the Arabian Minister in London. He offers to ask our Embassy there to mention the matter to the Arabian Minister, and says he thinks it would also be desirable to write to Mr. Twitchell, who is now in Arabia and has connections there which might be of assistance to us. Do you think we had better take these steps? I shall await your reply before answering Mr. Murray’s letter, which I have simply acknowledged.
Mr. Stevens was here Friday, and I presented to him our request. We discussed every aspect of it thoroughly. He was most sympathetic and seemed very pleased at the amount we had been able to raise in recent months. He was quite positive that the Foundation would not do what we want to ask, but suggested another arrangement which seems to me most liberal and altogether to our advantage. He is to write me a letter putting it in black and white. As soon as I receive that I will communicate with the Trustees and get their vote by mail, so that we can present the revised request and get it acted on before our April meeting. The general idea is that we should be given an extension of 2 ½ years, with $25,000 for current expenses, scaled down as before instead of being in equal installments, and that the remainder of the appropriation should be given us at the rate of $2.00 for every $1.00 we raise.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 24, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Herewith I am sending you Mr. Moon’s expense account for your signature.
I have been waiting for you reply to my letter of the ninth before doing anything more about securing authorization from the Saudi government for your Midian expedition. Whatever we do should be done soon. I hope the fact that I have not yet heard from you means that you are busy, and not that you are having any of the sickness which has been so widespread lately.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 31, 1936
Dear Glueck:
Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter which I am sending to the Arabian Minister in London. I am sending a copy to Mr. Murray of the Department of State also, and asking him to mention the matter to our Embassy in London and to write to Mr. Twitchell in Arabia, as he offered to do. Whether all this will go through in time to be of much use I do not know, but I believe it is worth while to make the gesture, at least.
I am sending on to Mr. Foster the voucher for the balance of the Transjordan Fund.
With regard to your travel allowance, the only action taken at our last meeting was to approve tentatively the budget than submitted, including this time. As I understand the statement in your letter, you propose that $550 be allowed instead of $600. Naturally, I have no objection any proposition which means saving money, even at your expense. We cannot make appropriations now for your return trip, but we might put on record a statement of our purpose to make such an appropriation when the time comes. Since, however, this will come out of next year’s budget, I do not see how we can draw the money until definitely authorized by the Trustees.
When Mr. Stevens was here I submitted to him a budget for next year which differed slightly from the one you sent me. The purpose of the changes I made was to make the estimated income and the estimated expenditures balance. You had included in estimated income some things which we could not use for current expenses and others which we should prefer not to. I am sending you herewith a copy of the budget which I submitted to Mr. Stevens, so that you may compare it with your own figures in working up the final budget to be submitted next month. If the Foundation allows us to use $10,000 in 1937, half of this will be available for our 1936-37 budget. We shall then have to use only $3,747 instead of $8,747 from “income hitherto devoted to endowment”. This figure, of course, will be modified by any changes in the amounts to be appropriated.
I have made my reservation for this summer’s trip by way of the Cunard line to France. Just what accommodations I shall have on the Mediterranean by this arrangement I do not know, but I hope they will not be too bad. I shall sail from New York June 11 and probably reach Jerusalem a few days before you do.
Moulton writes that he will do anything we ask him to, except that he does not want to bind himself to stay in this country all the time. We may have to make some temporary arrangement, especially as Moulton does not intend to leave Jerusalem until about the end of June.
My understanding of the proposed action by the Foundation is that all funds we put into endowment within the two and a half years period will be trebled. Mr. Stevens distinctly stated that we could continue to devote to endowment any funds available.
I, too, had a letter from Fisher, but it was written in a fine spirit and expressed the intention to go ahead. McCown writes that after being badly upset for a while, Fisher recovered his spirits, thanks largely to a good talk with Moulton.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 19, 1936
Dear Millar:
I got back to Cincinnati yesterday noon after successfully accomplishing what I stopped over in New York for. The American Export Line reversed the position it had take in two previous letter to me, and agreed that it would not be necessary for me to have the station-wagon which I am to take with me put into a special box. That would have cost at least $75 extra. I shall purchase the car this week.
I am enclosing two vouchers dealing with my expense account for your co-signature. Will you please forward them to Mr. Foster. As soon as I hear from Olmstead how and where he wants his checks for next year sent. I shall write out the instructions to the bank for all salaries for next year and send them on to you for your co-signature.
It was ice seeing you and being in your house and seeing Mrs. Burrows again. I enjoyed the stay in New Haven very much, and found most of the meeting to be very interesting and stimulating. Have you heard yet from the Rockefeller Foundation? Graham writes me now that all of the Grahams are going to be with us in Jerusalem, that means five of them all told. I am delighted naturally.
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 22, 1936
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of the 19th and have sent the vouchers on to Mr. Foster. Glad to hear that you can take the station wagon unboxed.
No word has come yet from the Rockefeller Foundation. I shall let you know as soon as I hear from them.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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April 24, 1936
Dear Millar:
Enclosed please find the revised budget, and the last financial statement. I am also sending my hand-written treasurer’s report (it need not be deposited among the most valuable incunabula) for Moon’s benefit. He asked me for it.
The chairman of the trustees of the University of Cincinnati has just sent Dr. Morgenstern a personal check for $100 for our Endowment Fund.
I have decided not to write to Mr. Patten to ask him for the $500 he promised. I think he will be reminded when a trustee he receives a copy of the minutes containing the budget as I have formulated it.
Did I tell you that all of the Grahams (five of them) are coming over to the School? It seems that the dormitory will be well occupied this fall.
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely
P.S. Do the donors to our Endowment fund who give above a certain amount, say $100 or more receive our publications? It seems to me that they ought to, and that their names should be put on a permanent list.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 27, 1936
Dear Nelson:
Thank you for your letter of the 24th enclosing the revised budget, treasurer’s report and the last financial statement.
I am glad to hear the good news of the personal gift from the chairman of the University of Cincinnati Trustees. With regard to Mr. Patten’s promised gift, it might be just as well to wait and see if he takes the hint when he sees the amount mentioned in the minutes. I should not wait too long, however, because that may not be enough to call the matter to his attention.
All donors to our Endowment Fund receive the Bulletin, and those who give a sufficient amount receive the Annual, also. We have not been sending special publications (like the Hatch and Speiser volumes) to donors. Many of them would have not real interest in such publications, and it would not take many years to use up the value of a gift in that way.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 30, 1936
To the Trustees
Gentlemen:
I have the pleasure of informing you that on April 15th, the Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation passed the following resolution:
RESOLVED that, conditioned upon the cancellation of the unpaid balance of RF 29134, the sum of One hundred eighty-five thousand dollars (185,000), or as much thereof as may be necessary, be, and it is hereby, appropriated to the American Schools of Oriental Research, of which not more than $150,000 shall be for endowment, payable at the rate of $2 for each $1 secured in cash from other contribution sources during the period ending December 31, 1939, and $35,000 for current expenses, to be paid in accordance with the following schedule:
1936 (balance due for 1936 under prior grant) $12,500
1937 10,000
1938 7,500
January 1 to June 30, 1939 5,000
This action is intended to supersede the former arrangement and will go into effect as soon as I have notified the Foundation that you agree to the cancellation of the previous appropriation, which would otherwise expire at the end of this year. I am enclosing cards for your votes on this proposition, in order that I may give due notice as soon as I have heard from you.
You will note that the total amount available for us for both current expenses and endowment under the new plan will be nearly $17,000 less than it is at present under the old plan. We still have coming to us from the 1929 appropriation $12,500 for current expenses and $189,418.86 for endowment, a total of $201,918.86. The new plan cancels the outstanding $12,500 for current expenses and appropriates $185,000 instead of $201,918.86. Since, however, we shall now have to raise only $75,000 instead of $150,000 to receive the $150,000 for endowment and shall have three years instead of eight months to raise it, beside having cash available to keep our program going in the meantime, the change is well worth the difference – especially as we have no chance of getting the larger amount. I am sure you will without hesitation and with joy vote for the cancellation of the old appropriation.
Two other matters call for your votes, and I Include them on the same card. Dr. Albright remains unwilling to withdraw his preferred resignation from our board and has sent me a definite letter of resignation. I recommend that it be accepted. Dr. Albright repeats his assurance that he will gladly continue to serve as chairman of the Jerusalem School committee (as our constitution permits) and as editor of the Bulletin.
To fill his unexpired term as Trustee he nominates Professor C. R. Morey of Princeton University. If you so vote on the enclosed card, I shall inform Professor Morey of his election.
Of course, you are free to write fully on any of these matters if you feel that they require further discussion. Votes taken by mail can be accepted as final only if we can be sure they will be formally approved at our next meeting.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 1, 1936
Dear Nelson:
I enclose herewith checks which Dr. Morgenstern sent as the result of the local campaign in Cincinnati. It is encouraging to have such help. I wish as much could be done in every community where we have a supporting institution.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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May 4, 1936
Dear Millar:
I am enclosing the order for the payments to be made for the fiscal year 1936-1937. Some of them will have to be made before the actual fiscal year begins, but we have always done that. Also at Graham’s and Olmstead’s requests I am, with your approval I hope, instructing the bank to pay one half of their salaries on July 1.
I am perturbed about the fifty dollar check sent by the U. of Chicago for their Annual Dues, and wrote to Moon about it. He was written to them.
I am delighted that the Rockefeller Foundation has approved of the new arrangements. I hope that includes the amount suggested for current expenses for the next five years.
This morning I received an extension on my Pal. visum to July 19.
The payments for the Tepe Gawra expedition have yet to be arranged for.
With cordial greetings,
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 4, 1936
Dear Nelson:
Thank you for the copy of part of Olmstead’s letter. What he is to do as Annual Professor, of course, is for Speiser to say, but in general we expect an Annual Professor have some freedom for carrying on research of his own, so that I can see no objection to Olmstead’s using some of his time at least for work on his history of New Testament times. As to his projected trip into Iran, I have to say. His idea of giving some lectures at Jerusalem seems to me all to the good, and I should think you would gladly accept it. After all, he is a man of considerable prominence in the world of scholarship and a few lectures give by him at the School would give us some additional prestige. I am glad to note, incidentally, that his family of five will spend some time at the School in Jerusalem before going to Baghdad.
I hope you will be able to get the matter of your visa straightened out. There is hardly time now for the Consul at Detroit to communicate with Jerusalem by mail, as the New York officer is doing for me. Perhaps you will have to cable.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Speiser so that he may know my reaction to Olmstead’s proposals.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 7, 1936
Dear Nelson:
I am forwarding to Mr. Foster the order for payments for the fiscal year 1936-37. I have showed this to Kraeling for his information. Presumably you will turn over your files to him when he assumes office; otherwise, he would like tohave a copy of this order.
Votes have been received from the Trustees enabling me to notify the Rockefeller Foundation that the new plan is accepted. I am enclosing herewith a copy of the letter send out to the Trustees, which quotes the resolution. The new plan goes into effect immediately and includes the appropriation for current explenses, which are to be paid in quarterly installments.
Glad to know you got your visa fixed up. I have not yet heard about mine.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 13, 1936
Dear Nelson:
I am sending on the letter to Mr. Foster with my signature.
I shall write also, as you request, to Mr. Sickles, thanking him in the name of the Schools for his kind services in connection with the purchase of the Dodge station wagon. I shall also send him a copy of the last two Annuals and have him put on the mailing list for the Bulletin, and we must see that when the results of your future explorations are published he receives a copy. It does not seem to me, however, that it would be advisable to make him a permanent honorary Associate Member or to send him the Annual regularly; at least, it seems to me, these questions should be considered further.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 14, 1936
Dear Millar:
I shall send my files to Kraeling before I leave, and also write him a detailed letter of instructions, which he can pass on to Moulton.
Have the minutes of the last meeting been sent out yet? If so, I haven’t received a copy. The particular reason that I ask is that I am waiting to write to Mr. Patten about his contribution.
I hope that you have obtained your visum.
I have written to Olmstead cordially inviting him to lecture at the School. It seems that the hostel will be quite full for a good part of next year anyway.
The Dodge station wagon is to be delivered to me within a few days. I think I told you that when I was in New York I was able to arrange for its being shipped unboxed, which means a considerable saving to us.
Moon has not yet returned to me the $700 I had advanced for him to pay for visa-deposits. If possible, I should like to return that money to the Provident Trust Co. before leaving, so that there will be one less detail for Kraeling or Moulton to attend to.
With best greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
1939
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
JERUSALEM AND BAGHDAD
March 14, 1939.
Dr. Nelson Glueck
Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dear Nelson:
Graham has written me at some length regarding a letter he received from Fisher, which makes him feel that Fisher is quite unhappy in his present situation. A large part of the trouble, Graham feels, is financial, but he thinks that perhaps something more could be done to make Fisher feel that he is appreciated and his services are valued. Graham speaks very highly of your own attitude to Fisher and the way you have treated him. He says, however, that Fisher complains of being brought in to straighten out difficulties at Khirbet et Tannur which might have been avoided if he had been consulted earlier. I repeat this frankly to you, because I think you will understand it. It seems to be symptomatic of a general feeling rather than significant with regard to the particular instance. You know Dr. Fisher as well as anybody else I know in getting along with him satisfactorily. You will be quite aware, therefore, that an attitude of appreciation and even deference toward his authority as an archaeologist may count for a great deal with him.
I am writing to Fisher about Graham’s letter, and taking the occasion to say that we appreciate how much he has done for the School and its students, and that we should have like to ask a great deal more of him if we had not been anxious to give him full opportunity to finish his Pottery Corpus. I should think it would not be wise for you to let him know that I have mentioned this matter to you at all, but I am writing in the hope that you may be able to find opportunities to make him feel that he is fully appreciated.
You don’t know what a comfort it is to have somebody at the helm with whom I feel free to be so frank as this about everything that comes up. Your fine spirit and your practical wisdom have been marvelous through all the extreme difficulties you have had to face. I really don’t know what we shall do without you when you have to come back to America.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Nov 1, 1939
Dear Nelson:
I am forwarding this letter from Dr. Morgenstern, because I think you ought to see it, especially if you talk over this matter with Albright, as you may have done already. Probably he has told you that I wrote to him about it.
I must say that while I am perfectly aware of the great advantage it would be for the School to keep you as Director. The commendations on the other side are looking bigger and bigger to me, and at most it looks to me as thought you would be much wiser to [?] to HUC. But I’m open minded on the matter.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Nov 6, 1939
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter from Baltmoie and want to write more fully about it later. I feel that your decision is [?], though I’m not sure the ground on which you made it are the right ones. Meanwhile you’ve been to Cincinnati and probably talked things over there. I hope you got the letter I sent on to you.
We’re getting glowing reports of your lecture, also some subscriptions to the Bulletin. Don’t [?] down under the [?]!
Sincerely,
Millar
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 8, 1939
Dear Nelson:
Your letter from Pittsburgh has arrived. I hope you had a good time with the ladies. Last night I lectured at the University of Vermont, so that they will now have a stone in the wall.
The particular point of writing just now is that Professor John W. Flight of Haverford College would like to have for the program of the SBL meeting the title of the illustrated lecture which we expect from you at the public session on the evening of Wednesday, December 27th. Will you please write to him directly and give him the title as it should be stated on the program?
I am glad to hear that you get good news from Jerusalem. I shall follow out your requests regarding Fisher’s and Glidden’s checks and the $1000 for the Jerusalem School. I shall also write to the State Department regarding your trip back.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
December 7, 1939
Dear Nelson:
I have your card and letter from New York. After reading of all you have been doing, it was no surprise to learn that you were tired. The same mail brought a letter from Albright strongly urging that you should cancel your engagement for the New York meeting. There is no doubt that you have been doing more than any normal man ought to do. None of us would want to be put in the position of a slave-driver – I am afraid it would be hard to make a slave out of you anyway!
As regards the New York meeting, our program would be seriously crippled if you could not be there. Perhaps after a few days rest at home you will have come back enough to feel equal to the trip. I am afraid it is already too late to change the printed program, which Flight must be about ready to send out. On the whole it seems best to me to leave the program as it is, with the understanding that if you are too tired to come to New York when the time comes, you just can’t do that. We shall then have to get along without you as best we can. I’ll hold Albright responsible to speak in your place.
You are doing a marvelous job. Echoes of it come in from all quarters, and they are all ringing with enthusiasm. In the meantime, take care of yourself. You’d better call a halt on accepting extra engagements. After all, you know, there is a limit to human endurance.
I enclose copies of the two letters received from the State Department.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 16, 1939
Dear Nelson:
I have just received your letter from Dallas. Apparently you are still going strong and still wining for us both fame and fortune. I note what you say about the various institutions you have visited. We shall of course be glad to get the checks you have received.
This morning a new complication has arisen. Engberg is writing to you about it but I want to say a word also. Olmstead wants you to give a lecture in Chicago on the 3rd or the 7th of January. Since the 7th is out of the question it remains to decide whether you can manage to go on the 3rd. we should not even think of it were it not that an opportunity is offered for a meeting with a man who may be of considerable help to us in the future if his interest can be won. Also this is the one positive thing that Olmstead has actually done for us and it would be too bad to take no advantage of it. One thing is clear. You certainly should not go to the New York meeting and also go to Chicago for this lecture. It does seem to us possible, however, that you might be able to get in a restful trip with your wife and still get back to Cincinnati in time to give this lecture on the 3rd before you sail. We fell that you must leave the matter to you, but we certainly do not want you to feel that you are on a spot or under any pressure whatever. If it would be just one thing too many, don’t hesitate to turn it down. Of the two things, if you feel that you can do either of them, I am inclined to think that the lecture in Chicago might be worth more to the cause than your coming to New York, much as I should like to have you there.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St. New Haven, Conn.
December 23, 1939
Dear Nelson,
Let me take up seriatim the items in your letter of the 21st, just received. Engberg and I agree that it is only fair to allow your wife’s expenses as well as yours for the Chicago trip, and there is no need to consult anybody else about it.
The Louisville check received and acknowledged hereby. (Don’t mind any eccentricities of typing in this letter, as I’m doing it myself on Engberg’s typewriter, with which I’m not familiar.) We are to receive $100 for the Cincinnati A.I.A lecture. What the Chicago fee will be we don’t know.
Expense account totaling $1090.75 noted. We have ordered $500 sent to you, and I will take to N.Y. for Moulton’s signature an order for $600 more, making a total of $1100. The final adjustment can be made when you know what the expenses of the Chicago trip will be. By the way, the remaining payments on your salary are all to be sent to Cincinnati according to present instructions. Let us know if you want any change in this arrangement.
Re Ezion-geber, the chances of aid from the Smithsonian seems good. If they drop out, there may be some other possibility, but any appropriation we’d be able to make ourselves would be quite inadequate for a campaign. Anyway, we’re all hoping.
Yesterday we forward to you a check sent by the Provident Trust Co., as per instructions, covering the budget appropriation for the Jerusalem School for Expenses, Library, and Archaeological Work for the fiscal year July 1, 1939, through June 30, 1940. In your letter you speak of “the check for last year’s budget” and also “that part of the check covering this year’s budget up till and of June 1940.” I do not understand this, unless you are confusing the calendar and fiscal years. Anyway, this check covers everything to the end of next June.
We’ll be glad to get a newsletter. We’re even more interested, however, in the manuscript for your book, which we have already announced to Associate Members as the choice for 1940. I hope you will just write down the lectures practically as you gave them, keeping the informal style and popular tone. To save time it may be necessary for you to allow us considerable freedom in editing and in selecting illustrations. The plan, you remember, is to use cuts we already have.
You have doubtless now received Engberg’s letter saying that the State Department says your passport is OK and need not be turned in again.
So much for the things in your letter — oh no, I almost forgot your inquiry regarding the total receipts and net gain from your lectures. Engberg says that, not counting the Chicago lecture, the figures are as follows: total receipts $2,855, which leaves, after deducting $1100 for expenses, a clear gain of $1755 for the endowment – not bad, we feel, in fact a pretty good profit even for such strenuous work as you have been doing, especially when you realize that there will be many indirect results of the lecture which will even exceed the direct gain.
There are two other things I want to bring up while I am writing. Please plan to arrange somehow for an official visit to Baghdad before the end of June, either by yourself or by somebody else like Glidden, to call on the Department of Antiquities, discuss the work and needs of our school there (including the care of the library), and in general convince them that the Baghdad School is going concern in spite of the fact that we have had no Annual Professor, Fellow, or expedition in the field this year. This is rather important from the legal point of view, as the Nies Estate matter is still in court.
The other thing is this: I should appreciate a telegram (night letter or day letter), addressed to me at Union Theological Seminary in time to reach me there Tuesday, stating confidentially your judgment regarding Engberg’s appointment as your successor and in particular any light you can throw on the probable effect of Guys’ attitude to him on the success of his work and his relations with the Department of Antiquities and other officials and archaeologists. This question will come up when the Board discusses his appointment. I wish you could be there to help us, but since you can’t I’d appreciate any message you can send. I’d be glad to quote you but will not do so if you say not. Incidentally, any diplomatic oil you can pour after you get back may help to make things easier for Engberg.
Hope I’ll be able to see you somehow and somewhere before you sail.
Best wishes to you both,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. – I can’t put in a letter which will be on record in the files what I should like to say about your decision in the matter we have discussed confidentially. I can only say here that I am convinced you will feel more and more as time goes by that you made the right decision, not simply to get us out of what might have proved an embarrassing situation in several directions, but also for your own ultimate good. Albright, by the way, convinced me of this, though I was already inclined to suspect it. Otherwise, I should have felt very unhappy over the way the matter is turning out.
Let me say again that I think you have done a perfectly tremendous job in your lectures. You have not only put the ASOR on the way in many quarter but also very substantially enhanced your own reputation. You are now widely known in this country as not only a distinguished scholar but also a very effective and interesting lecturer. We get many such statements as the one that same yesterday from a man in The Oriental Institute, “Some report the best lecture in seasons.” Speiser wrote this: “Nelson’s talks were beyond expectations. He gave a double-cheeker at the Oriental club, lasting nearly one hour and a half and could have kept me fascinated twice that long.”
So set a good and well earned rest and have a good time.
MB
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December 24, 1939
Professor Millar Burrows
American Schools of Oriental Research
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar:
The enclosed letter speaks for itself. I certainly think it is the limit. I received this letter by Special Delivery late yesterday afternoon. I confess that I think it somewhat irresponsible of Olmstead and of Rev. Virgin to have acted in this wise. First, an urgent telegram from Olmstead to you; then as a result of your letter to me which, to be sure, left the decision completely in my hands; my cancelling an announced New York lecture for this Chicago lecture; and then this very calm way of saying that they think January 3 to be an unsuitable date. I had made all sorts of dates in New York for Helen and myself which I cancelled when I decided to accept the Chicago engagement, broke other engagements in Cincinnati, in a word, changed my complete program in order to accommodate Olmstead and the North Short Baptist Church. I still have had no personal answer from Olstead with regard to the telegram that I sent him last Tuesday. I think it is a very unbusiness-like and irresponsible way for him and them to act. I am frankly, quite peeved.
Having now made another series of dates in Cincinnati I think, if you would not mind, I shall now stay in Cincinnati and not come to New York for December 27. Naturally, I should not refuse to come if you urged me to, but on the whole I should enjoy the rest at home.
Will you please convey to the members of the Board of Trustees and to the representatives of the Corporation my very best regards and cordial greetings. Will you furthermore please take some public opportunity of thanking them in my behalf for the very many courtesies and acts of hospitality with which they have showered me during this lecture trip.
I am delighted that Engberg is to be elected as Director of the Jerusalem school in my place. From what I have seen of him and of his wife, I am certain that our School is fortunate in having him and her available.
Some copies of the Annual came yesterday afternoon and I am delighted with the appearance of the book. Again my warmest thanks to you for all your trouble with the editing of this volume. I have written two chapters of the popular book but will not be able to complete the other two chapters before I leave. I shall write one or both of them on the boar or, in any event, promise to send two chapters more within a month after I shall have returned to Jerusalem. There is some conflict in my minds to whether or not it would be better, considered from all angles, if this popular book were to be published by the Schools or by some private publisher, say such as Revell who published Albright’s book.
By separate mail I am sending you a picture of my baby which I promised to send to Irene. Cordial greetings to both of you and to Edwin, I am as ever
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 30, 1939
Dear Nelson:
Your letters of the 24th and 26th were awaiting me when I returned to the office this morning. Engberg, who came back for a day during the meetings, had meanwhile told in great disgust of what happened to your Chicago engagement. It’s a shame, but I hope you got that much more rest at home.
Many people were badly disappointed at not seeing and hearing you in New York. Albright and I did the best we could to pinch-hit for you. Were you conscious of burning ears at about 9 o’clock Wednesday evening? The way Albright lauded your work and extolled the importance of your discoveries must have produced some warmth any psychic waves reached you.
We had a fine meeting of the Trustees and Corporation and an interesting, well attended luncheon of the alumni. I was especially glad that Mr. Warrington was able to get to the meeting of the Trustees. Dr. Moulton had the first full meeting of his Finance Committee that he has been able to get together. By the way, Mr. Warrington seems rather peeved that we did not retain you as Director at Jerusalem. He said, in effect, that it was a pity to have you teaching Hebrew and Bible in American when you could do such important work in Palestine. I tried to assur him that you had yourself withdrawn from any such appointment, that you were under obligations here in America, and that your return would not by any means prevent you from going back repeatedly as Albright has done to continue your work of exploration and excavation in Palestine. I am not sure he was satisfied, so I’d be glad if you would talk to him if you have a chance before you leave.
With regard to Kheleifeh, the Board authorized us to take what may be needed for a campaign this spring from any funds available (which would doubles mean the advance payment of Mr. Warburg’s gift), in case we are not able to raise enough money outside. We still hope to be able to do that.
The new Bulletin contains a note of appreciation to our hosts etc. for hospitality and courtesies during your lecture trip. We thought we would send marked copies to the individuals concerned.
I am glad you like the appearance of the Annual. I note that we shall have to wait for the last two chapters of your popular book until you get back to Jerusalem. Please make it as soon as possible, because we must get the book off the press early in the year for this year’s Associate Members. Our editorial committee feels quite definitely that it is best for us to publish the book ourselves.
Your night wire was received in due time. Many thanks. I am glad the matter of the $1000 for the Schools are now straightened out. I am returning Olmstead’s and Virgin’s letters.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
P.S. The picture of your youngster just arrived. It is a beauty, and I judge he is too. We are delighted to have it.
1940
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
March 29, 1940
Dear Nelson:
At the Spring Meeting of the Trustees in New York an approximation of a sum not to exceed $1000 was made from the Felix M. Warburg Fund for the completion of the excavation at Tell el-Kheleifeh. The budget which was submitted to the Smithsonian Institution called for $2000, of which they are furnishing $1500. We hope that this will be sufficient, but the Trustees felt that you should be allowed a little leeway.
The budget for 1940-41 was adopted also. This includes another appropriation of $500 from the Felix M. Warburg Fund for your archaeological survey of Transjordan during the coming summer. This was the amount you mentioned to me just before you sailed. I am glad we are able to appropriate the full amount.
The Trustees voted also to cancel any obligation on your part to pay the excess in the cost of Annual XVIII-XIX over our appropriation. This amounted to something like $900, but the bill has been paid, and fortunately we can get along now without the money, so we were unanimously agreed in releasing you from your generous promise to foot the bill.
Over against all this I have on piece of news which is note quite so favorable. Your request that the Schools pay your travelling expenses back to America was not granted. We can find no precedent for doing this. Out Directors hitherto have paid their own travel expenses to and from Jerusalem. It is true that we are making an appropriation of this sort for Engberg, but that is due to the fact that his salary will be considerably less than the Director has hitherto received. The Trustees felt sure that in view of the actions I have just reported to you, you would feel that it was only fair for us to expect you to pay your own expenses back to America.
Action was taken on several other matters, but you will soon be receiving the Minutes, so I need not go into these matters. In adopting the budget for next year we enjoyed to the full the fact that we no longer have to pinch and scrape to such an extent as has been necessary for the last several years.
Here’s hoping that conditions will continue to be as favorable for archeological work as they seem to be now, and that you will be able to finish your term as Director in a blaze of glory.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
May 15, 1940
Dear Nelson:
The international situation has been so uncertain and has been changing so rapidly that we have not known how to plan for the affairs of the Schools in Jerusalem for this summer. Dr. Engberg has his passport, but it has been quite impossible from day to day to tell whether or not he would be able to get to Palestine. The British Passport Control office tells him that he cannot be given a visa for Palestine without authorization from the Department of Immigration at Jerusalem. I am cabling you today to request that this authorization be given, but it is still impossible to say whether or not, or when, he will be able to use it.
Under these circumstances we take considerable comfort in the fact that you are there, and that you have been planning to stay for the summer anyway. It may be necessary to ask you to remain in charge of the School after the term of your appointment expires. I hereby request and authorize you to continue as Director until someone comes to take over the office. I hope it will be possible for you to carry out your Transjordan survey as planned. You had hoped, I know, to do this without being responsible for things in Jerusalem. In any case, I am sure you will manage everything in the best way possible in view of the situation.
Long before you get this letter you will doubles hear from Mr. Wadsworth regarding the control of our property in Jerusalem in case Palestine becomes directly involved in the war, and the continuance of our regular work becomes impossible. In view of the arrangements you made on a previous occasion, I am sure you will understand what lies back of this move and will know what course is best to take.
We are eagerly awaiting news of your excavation. Mail travels very slowly, and it tantalizing to have to wait so long. Jerusalem seems twice as far away as it did before.
Your book has gone to press. The job of printing it was given to Furst, and he promises proofs within a week. We have made one rather drastic shift in the order of your presentation, for the purpose of putting an especially interesting section at the beginning. Otherwise we have not made very great changes. We have not used all the pictures you indicated, but there will be about 130 illustrations in a volume of about 210 pages.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
September 2, 1940
Dear Nelson,
Before writing to Fisher regarding the payment of his extra $100 per month I must consult you again, because I find that my understand of what you said to me on the subject and Engberg’s understanding of what you said to him do not agree. I understand that at the end of five months we were to pay Fisher $500, but that in the meantime we were to write to him and ask whether he wished the money sent to him or deposited for him in this country. Engberg understood (if I understood him correctly) that the money was to be deposited in this country without further inquiry as to Fisher’s wishes, and that before paying anything we were to deduct the equivalent of a debt of a hundred pounds owed by Fisher to the School. Probably the circumstances of my conversation with you caused me to get the matter confused, but I should appreciate having the truth of it in black and white from you.
I have received a cablegram from Fisher saying that he plans to ship the photographs (and drawings? – I haven’t the message here) and the middle of this month.
By this time you have doubtless received from the bank the $306 for the expenses of shipping the Kheleifeh material.
Hoping you are getting a bit of rest and becoming acclimated and readjusted,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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WESTERN UNION
NELSON GLUECK
FISHER CABLES QUOTE CONSUL INSISTS INSTALLING MATSONS WIFE MANAGER WITH COMPLETE CONTROL HOSTEL FUNDS AND DISMISSING OUR HOUSEKEEPER BECAUSE GUESTS COMPLAIN MISMANAGEMENT HOSTEL AND I REQUESTED UNDESIRABLE NON-AMERICAN OLIVER FAMILY TO LEAVE STOP AM ANXIOUS PRESERVE SCHOOL FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. PLEASE CABLE SUPPORT MY PROTEST UNQUOTE PLEASE PHONE MY BETWEEN TWO AND FIVE
BURROWS
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
September 30, 1940
Dear Nelson:
I have just received from Wadsworth the following cablegram, which does not seem sufficiently urgent to relay to you by wire:
“Situation acute friction between guests apparently engendered chiefly by absence efficient hostel management and precipitated by peculiarities Lady Petrie and pranks ten children led Dr. Fisher September 14th give 48 hours notice Mrs. Thatcher four children and Dr. Kenneth Oliver Mother Aunt Wife three children refugees respectively from Alexandria and Syria. I learned situation morning 16th too late pacify Mrs. Thatcher who returned Egypt. Mrs. Matson engaged same day and Olivers except Mother Aunt remained pending departure Iraq today. Only present guests Petries and friend Mesdames Hae Wilson three children nurse from Cairo. Sitaution now tranquil Oliver appreciative Mrs. Matson pillar strength recommend keeping her writing.”
Apparently there is no more to be done at present unless I get some further appeal from Fisher. After my telephone conversation with you last Monday I wired Fisher:
“Your authority includes dismissing undesirable guests. No objection appointment Mrs. Matson housekeeper but retain other employees and hold funds pending further instructions. Harmony with consulate essential.”
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 28, 1940
Dear Nelson:
Thanks for your letter of the 24th. No wonder you are unhappy over the prospects for the Near East. The news by radio that Greece is being invaded makes the situation worse than ever, but I suppose we had that to expect sooner or later.
I am glad you are to take part in the AIA meeting. We should be represented at those meetings more often and more fully than we are. Perhaps, since you are to be there anyhow, I can get you to present my annual report for me.
Our meetings in New York will not begin until Sunday night, when the Trustees will meet. The Corporation will meet Monday morning.
The proposal to assist Hebrew University in the support of a Center for Prehistoric Studies is very interesting. Do you suppose they will actually be able to go ahead with such work now? If so, I see no reason why our Trustees should not be in favor of assisting the enterprise, at least for the present, since we have had to suspend all other work in the field. Doubtless the contribution would not be large, because we shall want to save up all we can for further work in Iraq, in view of the fact that the Pennsylvania museum has withdrawn from its partnership with us there.
Many thanks for the good work at Western Reserve. All such promotions helps in the long run, even though the prospect of getting that particular institution on our roll may not be bright.
Best regards,
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
November 21, 1940
Dear Nelson:
Flight has called our attention to the necessity of arranging the program for our regular evening meeting. He wants to have it by December 1st. The one thing which seems obviously called for is an illustrated lecture by you on the last campaign at Ezion-geber, with anything else you might care to include. Can you do this for us? The meeting will be on Tuesday evening, December 31st. If you can do it, we can give you the whole time except for Dr. Moulton’s annual report. I don’t think there would be anything from the Baghdad School, and Speiser will not be able to be there. While I realize that this will keep you away from home a long time, I very much hope that we can count on you.
I had a report from Fisher and a letter from Wadsworth. Both enclosed copies of their letters to each other. There was not really any new information, except that Fisher thinks Mrs. Vester is using Mrs. Matson to make out hostel practically an annex of the American Colony. I have written to Wadsworth saying quite frankly that we do not want to be tangled up in any way with the American Colony.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
P.S. If you would like to have slides made, we can have that done here, since we shall want them later for a regular stereopticon lecture on Ezion-geber, which, by the way, we hope you will be willing to prepare for us.
1941
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
January 7, 1941
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of the 4th, enclosing check for $291.65. Since we have no use in our local account for a credit for the Jerusalem School, I am forwarding the check to the Provident Trust Company, with appropriate instructions.
I shall take up with Carl Kraeling the question of the advance made to Dr. Polotsky.
Sorry I had to run out on you last Tuesday. Engberg tells me you had a very good meeting. I came home and went to bed with a pretty bad cold. I still feel miserable.
Hoping you are not the same,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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1942
YALE UNIVERSITY
THE DIVINITY SCHOOL
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
February 7, 1942
Dear Nelson:
Your letter and one from John Wilson came in the same mail. As I have just written him, I communicated with the Executive Committee at once, and I now have sufficient votes to say that your appointment on the terms you propose is assured. As regards the title, I think your suggestion that you be appointed as Field director of both schools is best.
The only trouble with calling you Acting Director of the Jerusalem School is that it would not be applicable if we can send Bob out at the same time or later. I should like very much to do this, and he definitely wants it. He feels strongly, and I think quite rightly, that his letter to John Wilson created an impression quite contrary to what he intended, and that it would be entirely unfair to him to send you out to his job, since he is under appointment as director of the school and has been willing all along to go to his post if we judged it advisable. He recognizes fully that what he could do would not compare with what you can do, and he is above any petty personal envy, but he feels, and I agree, that if it is possible for you to do archaeological work in the Near East it is possible for him too. In fact, I should think you might be able to make good use of his assistance yourself.
The Pacific School of religion wired me asking whether I could pinch-hit in your place, and I have agreed to do so. I can’t give them the sort of thing you would have given them, but I am going to speak on the social significance of archaeology, a theme which has interested me for a long time and which seems to me a real question now, when the production of even what we used to consider necessities is being curtailed in favor of the nation’s primary job. I’m not sure I know the answer completely.
To come back to your appointment, it would be simpler, as I have said to John Wilson, if we did not have to make any payments before July 1, but that is not an insuperable problem in view of the Warburg Fund. The only point we are in honor bound to guard is the use of our funds for the purposes for which they were given. But of course if we lost this war we might never again be able to do archaeological work in the Near East at all. What I proposed to the Executive Committee was that we give you a salary of $3000 with authority to use the Jerusalem School funds for archaeological work. Counting your own vote and mine, with all those from whom I have heard so far, we have a good majority, and I don’t expect any negative votes from the rest of the committee. I am raising the question with Wilson whether we could expect any help regarding travel expenses for you and Bob.
Sincerely,
Millar
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YALE UNIVERSITY
THE DIVINITY SCHOOL
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
February 26, 1942
Dear Nelson:
I got your letter of the 24th yesterday. Meanwhile I had mailed the “To Whom…” letter you asked for, and with it a letter to Barclay’s Bank, in that is already taken care of.
About the Smithsonian subsidy, it might have been better if you had written to me first, because then I could have told you that Bob has been in touch with them and has been around that they had money which they would like to use regularly for work with us. He had been hoping to be able to use it in case he went over himself. Since there now seems to be little rehabhood that the government will want us to send him, it will doubles be just as well to me the money for your survey, but in general I think it is a good idea to handle such things through our office have, to avoid getting our [?].
I feel badly about the way all this has worked out for Bob. As I have said before, he never had the least idea of being sent instead of you, for he realizes as we all do that you are the one obvious man to be send if only one can go. But it does put him in an ambiguous and rather humiliating position. I’m sorry John Wilson has wet-blanketed the idea of sending both of you. My parent inhibition is to advise Bob to make another trip to Washington and have a good talk with you and John, so you may see him there any day.
I have not sent any word to Mrs. Pommerantz about the possibility of your coming over, naturally. I think I’ll wait till you go and then give you a better to her to take with you.
There’s nothing to talk about my trip to California. I went, spoke, and returned, not even staying over night. It was a pleasant occasion, and I feel that it was a good thing diplomatically to have the ASOR official represented.
1943
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
July 30, 1943
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of June 28th enclosing the May accounts and a copy of part of your letter of April 16th to Albright, to be forwarded to him.
In all our correspondence about your articles for the Bulletin we have unfortunately failed to state the titles of the articles, so that it is rather hard for me to check up on just what has happened, but as far as I can make out the foots are as follows: your article on Jabesh Gilead appeared in Bulletin 89; the one on Zarethan, Succoth and Zaphon has now appeared in Bulletin 90. I find in my files references to two articles, and I suppose they are these two. The article on the cities of the Plains of Moab is presumably the one you sent on April 5th. I received it and sent it on to Albright, though in answering your letter of April 5th on May 25th I failed to refer to the article. I suppose these are the three articles you refer to. If there has been another one, perhaps sent directly to Albright, I have no note or knowledge of it. I will ask him about it in any case.
With regard to the books, we have only seven bound copies of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN. I don’t think we had better risk sending these, especially as orders keep coming in for them. Furst has 200 unbound copies, and I am writing him today to ship 50 of these, on the assumption that you can get them bound there. If I hear from you that they arrived safely and that you want more, we can have them sent. The original edition of WHAT MEAN THESE STONES? is nearly exhausted. As announced in Bulletin 90, we are having a cheaper reproduction made, and when these are received I will send you some of them. Like everything else of this sort, the job has been delayed, and we do not know just when we shall receive the books. ARCHAEOLOGY and the RELIGION OF ISRAEL is of course published by the John Hopkins Press. I am writing to them of your suggestion, and they can send you copies directly if they want to take the risk themselves.
What you say about the hunger for books on ancient Palestine reminds me that I spent much of my time in Jerusalem in the summer of 1936 preparing what I thought of as a “Pilgrim’s Bible.” The disorders is Palestine itself and later the war kept me from making any particular effort to complete the work or have it published, though I did get some more work done on it. The part on Jerusalem (which I thought might make the first of two volumes) is practically complete, though some recent developments might make changes necessary in a few details, and I should prefer to have it checked through again on the ground before publication. The part on the rest of Palestine, which is arranged according to trips, is barely started. It should certainly be completed in Palestine, if I can ever get back there. I should say that the general plan is to group together biblical passages dealing with particular places (or, in the case of Jerusalem, particular parts of the city), with very brief notes of explanation. Perhaps there would be some demand for such a book now. I mention it because your letter reminded me of it. I hardly know whether it would be worth while to do anything more about it at present.
I have had a little correspondence lately with your wife and the Provident Trust Company about the payment of your withholding tax. Apparently it will have to be paid. You have doubtless heard from her about it.
Best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 20, 1943
Dear Nelson:
The answer is NO. I would never forgive you for begging off from giving any lectures – never, never, never.
Knowing you as well as I do, I gather that you won’t be giving the lectures anyway, so my unforgiving disposition doesn’t make any difference. It is just as well, under the circumstances, that we have had so few requests. I shall simply have to write to those who have asked for lectures that you have been called to Washington for consultation; and that you will be unable to give any lectures after all. People now are fairly accustomed to having their plans upset by governmental requirements, so let’s hope they will be more forgiving than I am.
Don’t bother to return the Baghdad correspondence. The copies we sent you were made especially for your use, and you may want to consult them again when you go to Baghdad.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
1944
April 10, 1944
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
I am enclosing the March accounts.
I have finally completely recovered, and a few days ago began to work for the first time since I am here. The nine day curfew was listed the other day, and conditions seem to be normal again in Palestine, at least for the present. I trust that there will be no untoward incidents during the three Eastern which come together this year.
Next week I propose to start off working in Transjordan again. I propose to finish exploring the Beni Hassan area, and then explore the area east of Mafraq. The first area I shall probably do by car and on foot, and the second area by camel. Then I shall try to do the northern side of the Wadi Yarmuk. I am afraid it will be impossible to secure permission to explore the Wadi Sirhan. I shall have to do it some time in order to round out the archaeological survey of Transjordan, but apparently will have to wait till the war is over.
You will have received my previous letter, saying that I have advanced the School $1000, and asking you to send a cheque to Helen for that sum, and also asking you to send here the other $1000 remaining from last year’s budget, and half of this year’s budget. I am repeating this just in case my first letter did not arrive, though I am confident that it will arrive. I expect to travel hard and fast when I get going, and I am afraid that travel will prove very expensive this year. However, I have the hope and confident expectation that within the next few months I shall be able to finish the archaeological survey of Transjordan, and possibly the territory of Og of Basnan in southern Syria.
We have not yet received Albright’s Tell Beit Mireim III. We could dispose of a considerable number of the American School’s publications or of volumes sponsored by the American School, including What Mean These Stones, The Other Side of the Jordan, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel, From the Stone Age to Christianity, and McCown’s Ladder of Progress in Palestine. I am enclosing a copy of a latter from the Johns Hopkins Press, which may be instructive for the manner of shipping the books. Every once in a while we get 2 bound volumes of Albright’s From the Stone Age to Christianity through the regular post, unregistered. I am enclosing also a separate account of the sums received for the various books, and the bills sent us by the publishers. However, thus far we have received only 16 copies of PSC. I suggest you deduct the amounts we received from the sums you will be sending us! That will obviate the necessity of transferring funds from Palestine to America, which is practically impossible anyway.
2 copies each of Bulletins nos. 88, 89, and 90, and 4 copies each of Bulletins nos. 91 and 92 were received here a short time ago, together with Biblical Archaeologist VI:3 and VI:4.
I have asked you this before, but should like to bring it up again. What are the possibilities of striking off approximately 1000 copies of each of the plates of OSJ, and how much would it cost. The Bialik foundation here still wants to translate the book, but cannot swing either from a financial or from a paper point of view the printing of the plates here.
With cordial greetings,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 10, 1944
Dear Nelson:
Your letter of April 10th was received in due time. I postponed answering it until after the spring meeting of our Board. We had a fine meeting in New York Saturday afternoon, with an excellent attendance under the circumstances. The arrangements regarding funds for the School which you had suggested, and which we had already carried out, were approved. I trust you have received the $2000 which the bank was instructed to send you ($1000 completing last year’s appropriation and $1000 as advance on next year’s budget).
The suggestion was made that the monthly financial reports for the School should include the bank balances. Please see that this is done from now on.
Dr. Wetmore attended the meeting for the first time. I asked him whether we could expect further help from the Smithsonian Institution this year. He said he had not considered the question but would be glad to take it up. The budget was adopted without relying upon such help; consequently you will have $2000 for archaeological work and $2000 for expenses of the School anyway (including the $1000 already sent), plus anything we may get from the Smithsonian Institution.
I have not heard again from Furst about the matter of the plates for OSJ, but when we first raised the question the answer was that we could not get paper for this purpose. Possibly the Hebrew edition will have to be one without illustrations, though that would be a pity.
We shall treat the amounts received for books sold in Jerusalem as you suggest in your letter. We have sent the bills to the bank for payment.
It is good to hear that you are well and that the survey is proceeding satisfactorily, though I am sorry to hear that you will not be able to do the Wadi Sirhan for the present.
In case I have not already acknowledged your Newsletter. I hereby do so. It has already been sent out.
Best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
Dear Nelson:
Your letter of March 5th has just arrived. I am sending to Dr. Moulton, to be signed and forward to the bank, a letter of instruction regarding the payments you request. Our budget for 1944-45 has not yet been adopted or even formulated, but I shall certainly recommend the appropriations you requested, and I hope Dr. Moulton will agree to make the advance for which you ask.
The enclosed offprint from Mr. Richardson is explained by the penciled note on the back.
I am glad to know the books we sent have been sold. We will send you more copies of my book in small packages from time to time, and will write to Furst to send you more of the unbound copies of your book. If you want more of Albright’s book, I suggest that you write directly to the Johns Hopkins Press, since we are not allowed to ship anything but our own publications.
I am sorry you were unable to do more work on the new book during the trip. By this time I hope you are thoroughly rested and can go at things with your customary vigor. We shall be glad to get the Newsletter when you have time to write it. General Electric has allowed us to use your broadcast, and we have sent it out as a Newsletter.
You did not have a very auspicious time to get back to Palestine, but I hope conditions will be better rather than worse by the time you get this.
Best regards from us all,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
May 31, 1944
Dear Nelson:
Furst has now replied to my enquiry about reprinting the plates of your book. He suggests that a number of pages might be saved by combining smaller cuts, and printing plates on both sides of the sheet. Putting all the plates at the end of the book would also reduce the amount of paper which would be needed to reprint the plates here. He says that the paper used in your book has been discontinued, but he things he could obtain some which would be suitable.
He asks me to examine the book and determine which cuts could be combined and approximately how many pages there would be in all. I have gone over the book with this in mind, and as I figure it the cuts could all be combined on a total of 82 pages. I am writing Furst to this effect. When I get any more information from him, I will let you know.
Your letter of May 4, enclosing Newsletter, has been received meanwhile. As always, it is good to hear from you and to get your interesting account.
I enclose a copy of the Minutes of our Board Meeting and the budget for the coming year.
Best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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June 8, 1944
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
Your letter of May 10th just arrived. I am glad to note that the board adopted the budgetary suggestions you presented after receiving my letter. On April 25, 1944 we received $2000 which you sent us.
We do not quite understand what you mean when you say that our financial reports for the School should include the bank balance. The month statements which you receive now do show the amount of money in hand at the end of each month. The only thing the monthly statements do not show is exactly how much is in the cash box in the office and how much is in the bank. Inasmuch as we hardly ever have more than approximately LP 50. – in the cash box in the office, and that amount varies from week to week, I can see little advantage in adding that extra information. However, assuming that that is what you want, we are adding on to the statements of the last two months which are enclosed in this letter, the amount of money in the office and in the bank. The banks here do not balance chequebooks in the same way as banks do back home. They simply send a half-yearly statement of money withdrawn and deposited.
We have received six copies of “What Mean these Stones”. I trust that you are sending as many copies as possible of “The Other Side of the Jordan”. There is a large market here for these volumes. With regard to the plates for OSJ, the people here would like to have just the plates ripped off the wooden blocks. Would it be possible to have those sent here?
You will have received several more newsletter since I sent you those you refer to, particularly the last one which deals with my trip on the Transjordan side of the Wadi Sirhan and the trip along its western side. Since then I have done another long trip along the northern border of Transjordan. I have described part of my trip in my last newsletter. I want to describe the rest of it in my next letter. I want to describe the rest of it in my next letter. I had been pushing myself rather hard during the course of these trips and arrived back here a week ago completely exhausted. I shall stay home most of this month, whipping the pottery plates of Explorations IV into final shape.
You will be pleased to hear that I have also managed to complete the first draft of my new book “The Jordan”. It will be a small book, but I find that I have said what I have wanted to say. I have collected some wonderful photographs to go with it, which alone, if published, should make the book interesting. I am not at all sure that the book should be published by the ASOR. I think perhaps it might even be better to have it published by some private publishing company, such as Harper’s or some other publishing house, if they are willing to do it. I am a little sick of the manuscript at the moment, and it appears to me little more than an enthusiastically written, large size newsletter of mine. In it is contained all the new materials I have established in the Jordan Valley, and an outline of the history of the whole Valley from prehistoric times on through the Umayad period. I should say that the text is considerably more popular in style than OSJ, and in several instances I have given my fancy a rather loose [?]. The chapter headings will give you an idea of the manner of the book, which incidentally I should like to see published, either by the Schools or perhaps Harper’s or some other publisher like Harper’s, in the form of Douglas Carruther’s Arabian Adventure, published by Witherby Ltd. London, 1935. The chapter headings are these:
- Elephant Hunters in the Jordan Valley
- The Jordan Rift
- The Sources of the River-That-Goes-Down
- The Lake District
- The Garden of God
- Plateau Lands Across Jordan
- Mountain Streams and Valley Cities
- The Cisjordan Side
- The Plains of Moab
- Mount Hebo
I have had very little correspondence from America, and I think I shall add in one of my next newsletters that unless my friends write to me I shall stop writing newsletters for their benefit.
With best wishes to you and Irene for a pleasant summer,
Sincerely yours
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
September 7, 1944
Dear Nelson:
Herewith I am sending the list of photographs and the foreword to your Jordan manuscript (I hope the latter is what you meant by the introduction). Mrs. Walton has just returned from her vacation, and there is a good deal of work here to be done. We might find somebody to do the typing, but I thought perhaps you would rather have me send the material at once. Both Irene and I have finished reading the manuscript, and I am sending it on to Albright. You might therefore send him this material when you are through with it.
Let me outline to you the suggestions I have made on the manuscript with regard to the elephant chapter:
- Use chapter 2, the Jordan Rift, as the first chapter, introducing it with the first paragraph of your present chapter 1.
- Following this paragraph insert pages 16 and 17.
- Let chapter 3, Sources of the River-that-goes-down, be the second chapter.
- Use chapter one, Elephant Hunters in the Jordan Valley, as the third chapter (minus the opening paragraph).
- Chapter 4 (minus pages 16 and 17) will then follow as at present, and so on.
This sounds complicated, but I think it produces a logical order which reads quite smoothly, and it puts at the beginning material which has more popular appeal than the elephant chapter. As I wrote you before, I would certainly not omit the part about the elephants.
I will forward your letter for Mrs. Pommerantz in the mail for the pouch. We have just heard from the University Litho printers, quoting a price of $555 for 1000 copies of OSJ, in paper binding like that used on my book. If we use all the original photographs again, there will be an additional cost of $135. This would produce a better result. I am writing the members of our Editorial Committee about this proposition, which looks good to me.
Your Newsletter has come back from Washington. A good deal has been struck out by them. The rest will be sent out to our members soon.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
September 13, 1944
Dear Nelson:
I hope Little, Brown & Co. will be interested. Have they seen the pictures? I restate that they published the Paswan book, so they could do the right kind of job.
Obermann is very anxious to see you before you go back to Palestine. He says he would go to meet you somewhere else if you do not come to New Haven again. He wants to send some confidential, viva voce message to Magnes.
Run out and play now, but don’t get your feet wet, and don’t stay out too late.
Millar
P.S. I think that for several reason we should keep on trying to get a commercial publisher before deciding to let ASOR do it.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 2, 1944
Dear Nelson:
I have just received a letter from the Random House editor, suggesting that the reply to my letter about your manuscript was sent during his absence, and he thinks the decision was too hasty. He would like to see your manuscript and photographs if it is not too late. I am inclined to think Random House would do a better job than Little, Brown. If possible, I hope you can give them a change at the manuscript.
Glad you had such a good time in New York. I hope we can see you again before long. Don’t forget that Obermann is very anxious to talk to you.
Your letter of September 28th has just come. I will enclose your letter to Mrs. Pommerantz with one which I shall be writing her in a day or two.
Our Editorial Committee has approved the project of lithoprinting OSJ. The trouble about sending the blocks to Palestine was not only that the shipping would be costly and risky, but that the cuts would have to be removed first from the wooden blocks, a tricky job requiring special tools and a lot of time. We are now getting the original photographs together for reproduction, since a much better result is secured if they are used. Of course, under present circumstances, we cannot tell how long it will take to get the job out.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
P.S. Enclosed herewith is the original of your last Newsletter. Please keep it with the others and take good care of it for possible future use.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 9, 1944
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of the 4th and now the letter of the 7th, enclosing one from Little, Brown and Company, which I return herewith.
The man I have corresponded with in the Random House is Mr. Harry E. Maule, Editor, Random House, 20 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y. I have not written to Mr. Maule since getting your letter of the 4th, as it only arrived Saturday, and this is my first opportunity. I am now writing to him that you will send him the manuscript and photographs.
I’ll pass on to Obermann the word that you may be leaving soon, and it would be safest for him to write to you.
Sincerely yours,
Millar
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 19, 1944
Dear Nelson:
Many thanks for your letter of the 11th. I have heard from Mr. Kohler in the meantime. He looks very good as a prospective graduate student. While we have no work here definitely in the field of biblical archaeology, he could take his degree in Old Testament and write a dissertation on some subject involving the use of archaeological material. I am writing to him, and I hope he will find it possible to come here for his degree.
I hope the manuscript and photographs can be sent soon to Random House. Keep me informed of your doings and plans. I passed on your word to Obermann, and he said he would write to you.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 2, 1944
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of October 30th. Herewith I am returning the letter from the Harvard Press, which, as you say, is not very encouraging.
We have been trying to get the photographs assembled for the reproduction of OSJ. I enclose the list of those which we do not have. If you have either negatives or prints of any of these, please send them. Otherwise we shall have to have the figures in the book reproduced as they are. In the case of figure 119, we have a different photograph of the same object which could be substituted for the one used.
I hope you get favorable word from Random House. I am writing to Mr. Maule, as you suggest, about the use of the book for Associate Members, though I doubt if the number of copies involved would make any difference to him.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 9, 1944
Dear Nelson:
The photographs have come, and we are glad to have them. They will reproduce much better than the half-tone cuts. The ones we do not have, however, will not be too bad, I think.
I am glad you have been able to complete your study of the chalcolithic pottery of Tell Umm Hamad Sherqi. I presume the next Annual we can give you will be volume 25. Volume 23 (Kramer’s Sumerian texts) is in press, and we already have Miss Porada’s manuscript (Nuzi seal impressions) for volume 24.
They tell me Frank Brown was in town the other day. Ingholt, who is teaching one of our O.T. courses this year, says that Brown is returning to Syria right away. I don’t suppose you know any more about your own trip back.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
1945
January 9, 1945
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
You will have received my cable. I am enclosing a newsletter which tells about my trip and the School as I found it when I arrived, so I need not go into any further details in this letter. The only thing that I might mention is that the weather remains bad, which makes it impossible for me to start out for the upper Jordan Valley and southern Syria. All continues well at the School. Our accounts are, as the monthly statements show, in satisfactory order. During the next few months we shall probably be in the red as usual in the winter months, but the total annual account will undoubtedly show that we are in the black.
I am enclosing a statement with regard to the various book sales and also a bill from the Johns Hopkins Press, which in accordance with our previous agreement, you will pay. This $15.75 must be deducted from the surplus still to be paid to Albright.
When do you think the reprint of “The Other Side of the Jordan” will be finished? The Mosad Bialik wants to translate OSJ anyway, because they say that there is a large reading public in Palestine which reads only Hebrew. I have told them to go ahead and translate it. I have neither the time not the inclination to translate it myself, so I imagine that whatever profit may accrue from a 1000 copy edition of the Hebrew translation will go for payment of the translator. I am reserving the right to check the translation or change the translator. I mailed myself the letter you wrote me with regard to obtaining the old clichés, so I will be able to tell the people here definitely why it is that they are not obtainable for use here. I have forgotten just what it was you explained to me. The materials I have mailed myself from America have not yet arrived. This Hebrew edition will in no wise interfere with the sale of the reprinted OSJ. As a matter of fact, we have really made no effort whatsoever to seal any of the publications of the School. Most of the sales have been to people or to bookstores that have requested them, and these have been made really only in Jerusalem. If we made any effort we could sell a very considerable number of copies of all five publications listed in this statement of account I am sending you.
With regard to my manuscript of the “Jordan”, the status at the moment is as follows: Random House was still reading it when I left, and was interested, however, in the possibility of publishing it only in 1946. The Harvard University Press is also reading the manuscript, and will be prepared, apparently, to publish it in 1945 if it is approved for publication. Both of them are reading the original, uncorrected manuscript which you and Albright read. After I received it back from Albright, I revised it very thoroughly. At Albright’s strong suggestion I left word just as I was leaving the States, to have the corrected copy sent to the Westminster Press. I was not able to send more than a few photographs with it, because the original set of photographs was with Random House. At the same time I wrote a letter to the Westminster Press, saying that I would wait for their reactions before making any commitments elsewhere. I was so impressed by what Albright said about them, that everything else being equal, I should like to have them publish the book. I am telling you all this so that you will know how things stand with regard to it.
I spoke to Albright from Richmond just before sailing. He said what I think you have written to me, that the Schools were prepared to publish the book, but thought that it should have a wider spread than the Schools’ public would normally have. I am somewhat tired of writing around to different publishing houses, and in many ways would prefer to have the Schools publish it. It seems to me to make very little difference indeed whether 1000 or 5000 people read the book.
With very best regards to you and Irene and looking forward to hearing from you,
Sincerely yours
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February 12, 1945
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
If I am not mistaken, there is still $1000 remaining of 1944/45 budget for the School which has not been sent. The School funds are down practically to nothing now, and I should be glad to have you send us that remaining amount. In addition, no funds were sent me for the archaeological work of the School during the 1944/45 year, for which season, I believe, $2000 have been appropriated. I am not going to ask you to send that sum at the present, because if and when necessary, I can transfer from the Hostel accounts to the School account funds for that purpose. I consider it advisable, however, that the $1000 allocated for definite School purposes be sent now.
By separate mail I am sending you a list of books which I should like to have for our library. I am also enclosing a copy of the import license which we have secured for these books. I understand that it is necessary to send these books by parcel or book post, because otherwise it would be necessary for you and me to secure an additional permit for shipping. You will notice that I ask for a number of books in duplicate. I am doing that because thereby I am ordering books for the Ecole Biblique et Archaeologique Francaise. It is actually impossible for them in any other way to get any books at all. There are also some individual books which are solely for them. For your records I am sending you a list of books included in my list which are meant solely for the Ecole Biblique. The Ecole Biblique will pay me in pounds for such books as I turn over to them. We will keep a careful record of the transaction here. I have also told them that I shall have to ask them to pay the postage charges which will amount to a fairly considerable amount. They are completely agreeable, and pleased that we have acquiesced to their request and that we have helped them to obtain some hooks this way. I suggest that the money for the purchase of these books be taken out of the 1945-46 appropriations. By the time the books are ordered and paid for, we shall certainly be in the 1945/46 academic year. Naturally, we should be pleased if you could obtain as many as possible of the books for our own library free of charge or in exchange for our own publications.
Since writing to you last, I have had a letter from Random House, which in a very nice way said “no” with regard to their publishing the manuscript of “The Jordan”. I am sure that the Harvard University Press is not going to accept it, and there remains only the Westminster Press, which is reading it. Apparently, the book is not popular enough for these private presses to issue it with the hope of making any money on it. If the Westminster Press does not accept the book, I am definitely not going to submit it to any other press, but hope that the ASOR press will publish it. I should be very pleased to have it published by our own press as a complement to “The Other Side of the Jordan”. I am sure that arrangements can be made to publish the plates satisfactorily. In fact, If I were home and there weren’t these long compulsory delays writing letters and receiving answers, I should be inclined to withdraw the manuscript both from the Harvard University Press and the Westminster Press, and submit it to our own press. I shall be interested to hear what progress the issuing of the lithographed edition of “The Other Side of the Jordan” is making.
I am enclosing Newsletter No. 2, together with the January financial statements. I am also enclosing a list of the exchanges we should like to have from the items on the list that you sent us.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours
P.S. We have had a request from a local bookshop for a further five copies of your “What Mean These Stones”. Will you please send us some more copies of this book.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
February 16, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have waited a long time to write to you since receiving the welcome word that you had arrived safely. I kept thinking that I would have final word almost any day regarding the publication of your manuscript. A recent letter from Ernest Wright stated that the Westminster Press had about decided to accept it, but was waiting for a definite report regarding technical possibilities. Perhaps they have already written to you directly, but I have had no word, and I do not want to put off writing to you any longer. I certainly hope they will do it, and do a good job with it.
We have just received the new lithoprinted edition of your previous book. It seems to be a very satisfactory job. The first package of copies is being shipped to you today. We are selling this edition at $1.25 per copy.
We are also sending you two copies of the new Annual. Others will come later. Please let us have the names of any people to whom we should send complimentary copies. There seems no use in sending such a volume as this to all the people who received copies of your Transjordan reports.
Under separate cover we are sending you the minutes of the December meetings. The budget will be presented in the spring, but I reported your request for the same appropriation as we made for this year.
Please tell Mrs. Pommerantz that I received her letter of December 12, enclosing statements for November.
Hoping to get more news from you soon,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 5, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have letters from you dated January 9 and February 12 respectively. Though written more than a month apart, they arrived within two or three days of each other. The Newsletter sent with the first one has now come back from Gordon Loud pretty severely censored. The second one is being sent to him today. I do not think it will require so much censoring.
We have had no further word regarding the decision of the Westminster Press about publishing your book.
We have had no further word regarding the decision of the Westminster Press about publishing your book.
The list of books which you want for the library and the Ecole Biblique raises a complicated series of questions. The import license, I am afraid, is of no particular use, because we cannot make large shipments from this country at present, and we are not allowed to send anything but our own publications. We are sorting out the books in the list, and ordering from the publishers those which are published in this country, which the publisher in each case will have to send to you directly. Those not published in this country we have no means of getting for you at all. Perhaps there will be some which you can order directly from Jerusalem. We will make a separate list of any such that we find.
As regards remittances on your appropriations, I find that the $2000 sent to you last April included an advance of $1000 against the budget for 1944-45. That leaves $1000 of the appropriation for archaeological work, in addition to the $2000 appropriation for the expenses of the School. Since you say that you wish $1000 for School expenses, I am sending to Dr. Moulton, to be countersigned and forwarded to the Bank, an order to send you now $1000 from the $2000 appropriated for expenses of the School. This will leave unpaid $1000 for archaeological work and $1000 for expenses of the School.
Your letters and Newsletters are mighty interesting. I’m sorry all our members will not be able to read everything you wrote. I hope you are now having beautiful spring weather. We are having some foretaste of spring here.
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 21, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have your letter of February 27. Meanwhile I have been having some correspondence with Dr. Trinterud. A letter just received from him says that he has had two cables from you stating that you will make revisions which he suggested in your last two chapters. He indicates that the Westminster Press will then publish the book. I am very glad, because I think they will do a better job with it, both in format and in promotion, than we could do. In fact, we might have difficulty getting the paper to do the job at all. The book will find a much wider audience this way, not to mention the fact that you will be able to get some financial return from it yourself.
We will send His excellency a copy of Annual 18-19 and a letter saying that this is done at your request. Anything we can do to cultivate such friendly relations is all to the good.
We are sending you more of our own publications, as you ask. We are asking the publishers to send you the books by Albright and McCown.
Our Board has decided by mail not to have the usual spring meeting this year. Dr. Moulton and I will make out the budget and submit it for approval by mail. There is no other urgent business to require a meeting.
I hope the weather is clearing up now, and you are able to get about again. We have been having unseasonably warm weather here and are hoping for an early spring.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St.
New Haven, 11, Conn.
April 11, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have just received your Newsletter #3 with a note to the effect that you had not, when you wrote, heard from any of us here since you left America. On February 16 I sent you a letter by Air Mail, which you should have received by March 16th, I should suppose. I hope it has reached you in the meantime. In it I spoke of the probability that the Westminster Press would publish your new book, the fact that the new lithoprinted edition of your previous book had arrived, the new Annual, and the minutes of the December meetings which were being sent to you by a slower mail.
My letters of March 5 and 21, which were not sent by Air mail, would hardly have reached you before you wrote, but have presumably arrived in the meantime.
Two or three days ago I received your cable asking for several hundred copies of your book. We are sending them in small packages by mail about as fast as we can. This seems both safer and more than sending a large quantity at once by freight.
Mrs. Walton is following up the matter of the books which you request for the library. There are many complications involved, and there will evidently be some of the books which we cannot get. Some in fact, are out of print. The biggest quantity to be secured from any one publisher is the group of the University of Chicago publications. You will be receiving a list of these, as soon as it is arranged, so that you can secure a permit to import them.
The Trustees have voted to omit the regular spring meeting this year because of wartime difficulties of travel, since there is no urgent business to transact except the adoption of the budget, which we shall do by mail. Your requests will be incorporated.
The Editorial Committee has just voted to adopt a suggestion of Albright’s and inaugurate a series of Supplements to the Bulletin, so that some valuable material can be used without unduly increasing the size and cost of the Bulletin itself. The first one will be a treatment of the Sumerian Paradise myth by Kramer.
I hope you have received the $1000 which we ordered sent to you early in March, as explained in my letter of March 5.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
April 25, 1945
Dear Millar:
Enclosed please find another news-letter and the School and Hostel accounts in duplicate for February and March 1945.
We have been receiving quite a number of books of those I requested to send, and are naturally keeping careful record. We have also thus far received 6 additional copies of What Mean These Stones. I assume more are coming. At the end of next month, I shall send an especial accounting of all book received for sale.
I imagine the Westminster Press has not yet received the revised ms. of the last two chapters of THE JORDAN, because I have not yet received the telegraphic acknowledgment I requested. Is Albright ill? I have not heard from him since arriving here.
It is possible that I shall be flying to Aqabah with Lord Gort this Saturday. I shall write about it later news-letter if I do.
Best regards,
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April 29, 1945
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
Up to date we have received the books on the enclosed list out of those which you sent us at my request. We have also received recently 35 copies of the cheap edition of OSJ and 9 copies of your What Mean these Stones. I am also enclosing an up to date accounting which carries us through the end of April of books we have sold for the School. Can you please furnish us with a statement of account of the amounts paid to Dr. Albright of his published for books sold here.
If I haven’t previously, I am hereby acknowledging the cheque for $1000 for School expenses which you sent us in March. This leaves unpaid, in accordance with your letter of March 5th, $1000 for archaeological work, and $1000 for the expenses of the School.
I just returned yesterday from a very interesting airplane trip to Aqabah with Lord Gort. I shall not describe it to you now because I shall be writing a Newsletter soon. Frank Brown dropped in the other day, and invited him to accompany me on a trip to the sources of the Jordan in southern Syria which I shall start on in a few days.
I have your letter of March 21st, and note that you are sending Lord Gort a copy of Annual XVIII-XIX. My declining ego was slightly bolstered yesterday by seeing Lord Gort during most of our airplane trip to and from Aqabah reading my Other Side of the Jordan.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
P.S. Could you please send us some additional copies of the last Bulletin and also of Bulletins 88-93. The Peres Benedictines of Montserrat would like to have the entire Biblical Archaeologist. If you send it to us we shall sent that they get it.
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May 28, 1945
Dr. Millar Burrows
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Millar,
I have just received your letter of April 11th. The mails seems finally to have caught up with themselves, and I have I have in the meantime received all the letters you wrote me up to the time you wrote me this letter of April 11th.
I am glad to hear that you are sending the additional copies of my book as fast as possible. It seems that there is a continuing demand for them. I am sure that we will be able to dispose of them, in spite of the fact that within 4 or 5 months it is probable that the Hebrew edition of my book will appear. I assume that you are sending the additional copies of What Mean these Stones and Albright’s books I asked you for. In my last letter I sent you a financial statement dealing with all the books received for sale. I should like to repeat my request that you send us copies of the bills for the books you are sending us for our library. It will not be necessary for us to secure another import permit for the University of Chicago publications, because the one we have received already covers that.
I must have acknowledged the receipt of $1000 which you cabled in March.
I have been on a series of trips recently, and I am enclosing another Newsletter. I am also enclosing the accounts for April.
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St. New Haven 11, Conn.
May 21, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have your letters of April 15 and 27, the latter enclosing a Newsletter and the School and Hostel accounts for February and March. I hope you are now receiving your mail safely and regularly.
Dr. Trinterud was here a few days ago and told me that he had accepted your re-written chapters and had cabled you to that effect. He is now concerned only for proper authorization to use all the photographs, and I cannot blame him for being rather particular about that. I am more than pleased that he is going to bring out the book. He can do a much more adequate job with it than we could; in fact, we might have had trouble getting the paper for it.
We are continuing to send you the books you have asked for. The copy of Annual 18-19 and a set of the Biblical Archaeologist for Pere Beneventure-Ubach have been sent to you with the exception of a few numbers of the B.A. which are out of print. We hope to have these reproduced after the war. Mrs. Walton tells me that Pere Ubach is entitled to the Annual in exchange for the Catalan Bible. We are gradually restoring our full list of exchanges, which has been badly broken up the war.
Your desire to get back home next winter, while not hard to understand, nothing short of dismaying to us here. We knew, of course, that you might want to get back when the war was over, and you and I have discussed the possibilities regarding a successor for you during your last two visits in this country. We have been thinking about the matter all along. To get somebody by next January, however, would seem to be impossible without a miracle. Arrangements for the academic year 1945-46 have long ago been made in the colleges and seminaries here: courses have been planned, and catalogues are out. It would be very difficult for anybody now to get released for the second half of that year. Besides, a new man should be there for at least a few months of work with you, in order to work himself into the situation and learn the many things you could show him, which could hardly be conveyed in one conversation or a written report. This would be especially important if we should send a man without experience in the position, as will in all probability be inevitable. Albright has already written to me that he cannot undertake the job, and it is clear that the present state of his health would not allow it in any case. I must count myself out also. The person on whom our hopes are focused is Ernest Wright, but it is not at all certain that he can get away at all, to say nothing of next year. Of course we shall do all we can, but meanwhile I must certainly beg of you to reconsider the time of your return, and, if it is at all possible, plan to stay here for another year. You may not realize as completely as the rest of us do what an extremely difficult thing it will be for anybody to take your place. If you could be prevailed upon to take the work as a permanent career, that would please all of us better than any other possible arrangement. But we must of course respect your obligations and attachments here at home.
Yours sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
July 9, 1945
Professor Nelson Glueck, Director,
American School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dear Nelson:
Your letter of May 28th came some days ago. Your Newsletter is now in the mails.
We do not yet have all the bills for the books we secured at your request for the School library. When they are all in, we will send you copies of them.
I am eagerly awaiting your reply to my letter of May 21st, in which I asked you to reconsider the matter of giving up your job at the end of this year. I have had no success trying to get anybody who would be satisfactory to us and who could get to Jerusalem by next January. I have, however, both corresponded with Ernest Wright and talked with him about being your successor. He has taken up the matter with the President of his Seminary, who is willing to let him off for two or three years; but he cannot get away before next August on account of previous commitments. If you feel that you simply must leave at the end of this year, there will have to be an interregnum, and we would have to make the same sort of arrangement with the Consulate which you had made before.
We have tried to get some indication as to the possibility of sending a Director and his family to Jerusalem when you leave; but quite naturally the State Department says only that an application for passports will be considered when it is received. Nobody can predict what political developments may take place in the Near East within the next year or two. Wright is not willing to go unless he can take his family, and his wife is not eager to take the children if there is going to be any shooting going on. All this leaves us in a state of complete uncertainty, except that we have a good man who is definitely interested.
We are still sending packages of your book and mine to you. Please let us know if we reach the saturation point on either of them.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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P.O. Box 90, Candlewood Isle,
Danbury, Conn.
August 16, 1945
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
Cosmos Club,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Nelson:-
Just now (Thursday afternoon) we stopped in to get our mail and found a note to call Western Union at Danbury. I did so and got your telegram. I don’t know how long ago it came. Nothing was open anywhere around here yesterday anyway, as we found when we went in to Danbury and tried to get a meal. Even the Hotel Green (where you stayed when you came here a few years ago) had run out of food and none of the waitresses had showed up, so they weren’t serving meals. Restaurants and stores were all closed. But even on normal occasions we have no phone or messages aren’t sent up to us; we just get a note to call Western Union when we go for our mail. All of which is to indicate that a letter is about as quick a way to reach me here as a telegram.
You will remember the hectic afternoon when you and your wife came here to find us, and I tore in to New Haven to meet you there. In view of all these complications, plus the fact that we just haven’t facilities for entertaining anybody here, plus the glad fact that gasoline rationing is off and a drive to New York would be a pleasant experience, I think it would be most expedient all around if we met in New York. I could drive down in the morning and meet you there at any time, preferably early afternoon. Name any place you choose for getting together. For a lack of a better idea, I suggest the lobby of the Hotel Pennsylvania, which is just across the street from the Pennsylvania Station, where your train from Washington would come in. If you think of a better place, I’ll go to it. But you will have to allow a few days to be sure that I get your message.
I assume that you’re in no great hurry and won’t be rushing back immediately anyway. It would be fine if you could stay home long enough to read the proofs of your book, which I understand has already gone to press. You can doubtless use a few days in Washington to good advantage. I hope you will see everybody and get all the low down on things which might affect our work. You will doubtless see C.D. Matthews, from whom I had a letter last week. Perhaps you will already have had some preliminary skirmishes with your wife and Morgenstern. I hope you won’t have an “absolutely no” to report from either of them.
We are running in to New Haven for the day tomorrow to attend to a few things. I will mail this in town on the way, which will be the quickest way of getting it to you, since there will be no collection from here until late morning anyway. This is almost like being out in the north woods!
Well, it’s about time I said I’m glad you’re back. I am. It will be great to see you. The radio has just reported that our government and England are discussing the Jewish National Home. I will be eager to hear everything you have to tell of the situation and the prospects in Palestine.
Let me know the time and place, and I’ll be there if I get word in time. Maybe Irene will come down with me and we can have lunch together if you reach New York about noon.
Au revoir!
Sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
P.O. Box 90, Candlewood Isle,
Danbury, Conn.
(until Sept. 1, 1945)
Dear Nelson:
After mailing my letter to you, I found yours of the 15th in New Haven. It had just come in, and Mrs. Walton was about to forward it to me when I arrived. I suppose the letter I sent to Washington will be forwarded to you wherever you go for your vacation trip with your family, unless you go to some place as inaccessible as this is or more so. Whether my telegram has ever caught up with you I don’t know. (By the way, I received the other day a letter from Bayard Dodge postmarked Beirut, June 7, 1940 – he wrote to congratulate us on finishing our endowment campaign!)
If you come east again in a couple of weeks, we may be back in New Haven, or we may still be here. In either case I could meet you in New York, as I suggested, or in New Haven, whichever suited your convenience better. Meanwhile another idea has occurred to me. We have been longing to make a trip out to Michigan to see our daughter-in-law and little grandson, and now that gasoline rationing if off we are strongly tempted to do it in September. I’ve been wondering whether on the way out or back we couldn’t bend down to Cincinnati, have a confab with you, and take a look at my birthplace (Wyoming). I don’t know whether we’ll be able to work that idea out or not, but it’s an additional reason for hoping that you’ll be able to let me know in advance where you are going to be when. I think our school year opens September 26; I’d have to be back before that in any case.
Remember us to your wife, and have a good time together.
Sincerely,
Millar
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 4, 1945
Dear Nelson:
There are several things I want to write about. I hope I can get them all in, but they may not come in any logical order.
The P.S. for your Newsletter which you suggested in your card to Mrs. Walton came too late to be used. The Newsletter had already gone out. As regards submitting your Newsletter to Gordon Loud, I raised the question with him recently whether this was still necessary, and he replied that personally he did not think it was, but he thought we should keep it up for the present.
On the matter of your salary, I have checked the statement in your letter of September 11 that you “served the School for more than one quarter from sometime in March to the end of June 1942 without any remuneration.” What I find is that you wrote me on September 21, 1942, that you had received no salary for the second semester of the preceding year, while you were at Princeton and Washington. Your appointment at Jerusalem began July 1, but you wrote, “inasmuch as I actually assumed office here at the beginning of May, it might be considered for the Schools to pay part of my salary for the last semester, or to pay me a salary for the months of May and June.” In reply to that letter (which came with one dated December 1), I wrote on December 31 that the Board had voted to appoint you Director instead of Field Director, and to raise your salary to $5000. I added, “In view of the increase in salary the Trustees hoped you would not feel we ought to pay you for the months of May and June. It seemed to some of theme that to do this would establish a precedent which might prove embarrassing in the future.”
All this seems to add up to the fact that you served us two months without remuneration. If you prefer, I can just forget your oral suggestion about the last quarter of 1945 and call everything square, especially as you will actually do work for the Schools during that time. If you should teach at HUC this semester, that might alter the situation somewhat, but I leave it to you to figure this out and make the next more, if any. Incidentally, the question of an increase in your salary which I mentioned at New York, including the time when it would take effect, will have to be presented to the Board in December.
I have heard from Jeffery about the Annual Professorship. He says he cannot get away for any part of the present academic year, but he has already taken steps to secure all of the year 1946-7. He is not yet quite sure whether he would prefer to spend the year at Cairo or at Jerusalem. The question of finances is involved, as usual; also he would have to make a few trips to Cairo anyway in connection with the printing of something he is working on. I suggested to him that you and he can talk the matter over in December, if he still feels that he might like to go to Jerusalem. There are of course others who might be considered, but I believe it would be worth while to get him if we possibly can. As for myself, it does not now seem feasible to get away for more than the second semester next year. I am going to try to do that, but perhaps we can make some arrangement and still have Jeffery as Annual Professor.
I will ask the Provident Trust Company to send you a check for $50 to cover the expenses of your trip to New York.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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Copy of letter from the State Department to Dr. Burrows
Oct. 5, 1945
Reference is made to previous correspondence relative to the sale of certain property in Iraq belonging to the University of Pennsylvania Archaeological Expedition. The Department is now in receipt of a dispatch from the American Legation at Baghdad, the pertinent paragraphs of which are quoted below.
“The cameras and the tripod are still stored in the Legation and, since their usefulness may soon come to an end through deterioration of the leather and wood parts, it is respectfully requested that the Legation be instructed as to their possible disposal.
“Both instruments are very large outmoded types of dry plate still cameras. They are equipped with Zeiss Tessar 4.5 lenses and shutters covering 1 second to 1/100 second. The lenses and shutters appear to be in good working order.
“If the University of Pennsylvania cares to have these cameras sold in Baghdad, it is believed that they will bring better prices at the present time that they are likely to be worth in the future.
“There is also stored in the Legation one transit instrument which is understood to have belonged to the same expedition. This transit requires slight repairs. Instructions are also requested regarding its disposal.”
The Department will be glad to forward your instructions in the matter to the American Legation at Baghdad.
Signed by Kenneth C. Krentz, Assistant Chief, Division of Foreign Service Administration.
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October 10, 1945
The Secretary of State,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
The archaeological equipment deposited with our Legation at Baghdad, referred to in the dispatch quoted in your letter, has already been the subject or correspondence between us and the Iraq Department of Antiquities. I enclose herewith for your information a copy of my letter of July 25th to the Director-General of Antiquities at Baghdad, agreeing to the sale or disposal of the equipment in question.
I note that the dispatch and your letter refer to this equipment as belonging to the University of Pennsylvania archaeological expedition. This expedition was a joint enterprise of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Subsequently, however, the University Museum withdrew and its financial interest in the expedition was liquidated. The equipment in question, therefore, as I understand it, is now the property of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
From the Legation’s dispatch I gather that the Department of Antiquities has left on deposit with the Legation two camera and a tripod and also a transit instrument, all of which, in the judgment of the Legation, could now be disposed of advantageously.
Please authorize the Legation, on our behalf, to sell all these instruments and convey the proceeds to us by the most expedient means. If repairs on the transit are necessary to make it saleable, please authorize the Legation to have the repairs made and deduct the expense from the proceeds.
I am sending copies of this letter and yours to Professor E.A. Speiser, of the University of Pennsylvania, who is the Director of our School at Baghdad, and to Dr. Nelson Glueck, the Field Director of the School.
With appreciation of your kind assistance in this matter,
Sincerely yours,
President
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 18, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I am glad to have your letter of the 16th. I was thinking just yesterday that I had not heard from you for some time.
What you say regarding the question of salary is thoroughly satisfactory to me. I gather that your lectures at HUC are in the nature of paying of something of what you feel to be your debt to the institution.
I am sorry what I said about Jeffery alarmed you. He had no idea of spending his leave at Cairo if he accepted the appointment as our Annual Professor. It is a question of being Annual Professor at Jerusalem or going to Cairo in a quite different capacity.
Congratulations on your appointment as Norton Lecturer. It is certainly appropriate, and I am glad to have the ASOR given such recognition. I only hope the appointment does not involve obligations which will delay your return to Jerusalem.
As it now seems, we shall have to have our Board meeting on the evening of December 26 and the Corporation on Thursday morning. I have suggested that you might give an illustrated paper at the regular joint evening session of the SBL and ASOR Thursday evening, the 27th. The conflict with the Archaeological Institute is unfortunate, but it is a difficulty we encounter every year. The fact that the Institute rarely meets in the same city with the SBL makes the conflict all the more regret-table. I am hardly ever able to get to the AIA on that account. I hope you can manage to be in New York from Wednesday evening through Thursday evening, even though it means missing some of the AIA meeting.
Mrs. Walton fears that the arrangement with the Jewish Publication Society will cut into our Associate Membership pretty badly, since we are offering your book as the free book for next year. Even so, it will mean that many more sales and that much more publicity for your work.
By the way, one of our students was at HUC recently on business for the Religion and Labor Foundation. He tells me that the students there are all excited about a new professor named Glueck.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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Copy of letter from Department of Antiquities at (Iraq) Baghdad, to Dr. Burrows.
Oct. 21, 1945
Dear Sir:
Thank you for your letter of July 23.
We note your approval of our proposal in connection with your equipment now stored at Khorsabad. At the same time we are greatly encouraged by what you say in the second paragraph of your letter, to hope that plans will materialize in the near future for the completion of your excavations at Tepe Gawra, and the continuation of the work of the Baghdad School at some other site. In this event I should like to assure you in advance of any kind of cooperation and assistance which our department is able to give.
In view of what we say we are now inclined to suggest leaving the equipment at Khorsabad. The hot weather which is most detrimental to such material is now over for the time being. The more perishable things such as bedding etc., can fairly easily be replaced, which arrangements for the important of new instruments and scientific equipment might under present conditions involve prolong negotiations.
We understand from Dr. Wilson of the Oriental Institute that he is likely to pay a visit to Iraq this winter. If this is the case, and there is any likelihood in the future of collaboration between yourselves and Chicago, you would probably like him to look into the matter in person.
We shall look forward with interest to hearing of your plans.
Yours sincerely,
Naji al Asil
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
October 31, 1945
Dear Nelson:
Thanks for your letter of October 25. I am glad you are planning definitely to attend the ASOR meetings and to give an illustrated talk at the joint evening session Thursday evening. I had a telegram from Dinsmoor the other day asking where we were to meet. I wondered if he was thinking about using you at Cincinnati, but in that case you will have heard from him.
Raymond Morris, our librarian here and editor of Religion of Life, tells me that he has never received any reply from you regarding his request for an article. My recollection is that you told me you had written to him. If you did, the letter was evidently lost on my way.
I hope you are thinking over what ought to go into the catalogue we agreed we should issue. Enquiries are already coming in, and I think we should get out the catalogue as soon as we can after we know who is to be our Annual Professor. I have heard nothing more from Jeffery.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 5, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I enclose for your information a copy of a letter I am sending to Mrs. Pommerantz. I think it is self-explanatory.
Among her enclosures is the list of library acquisitions, one copy of which I am sending you herewith in the hope that you may be able to check from memory, at least in part, what books in the “List of Purchases” were actually purchased and which ones were exchanges or gifts. We can tell here, of course, which books we bought for you, but I suspect that some of the books listed as purchases were actually gifts. Mrs. Pommerantz says, in fact, that she cannot tell which ones were purchased.
The final invoice on the books we have ordered for you has just come in. We will send you soon a complete statement of the whole transaction.
By the way, we may have one or two vacancies of our Finance Committee and Board this year. Altschul has expressed a wish to withdraw, and Kunhardt’s term expires this year. Do you know whether the younger Messrs. Warburg and Warrington would be available now, either or both of them? They both expressed real interest and a willingness to be approached again when they declined previous invitations.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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November 5, 1945
Dear Mrs. Pommerantz:
This is to acknowledge your letter of October 7, enclosing financial statements, list of library acquisitions, statement of books sold, and bill for Bulletin and B.A. paid to you by Corporal Levy.
I note that you have a sufficient stock for the present of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN and WHAT MEAN THESE STONES? We will send no more of these until you ask for them.
There is no reason why people should not pay at the school for subscriptions to our publications. You can report such payments to us, and the adjustment will be merely a matter of bookkeeping.
We will try to send you from now on larger packages on the Bulletin.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Dr. Glueck for his record. I hope the current disturbances will not interfere with the school.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
November 29, 1945
Dear Nelson:
Enclosed herewith you will find a copy of a letter to Mrs. Pommerantz, for your information and record.
I have your letter of the 26th. I shall see whether we can arrange a lecture date for you here in January.
I can’t blame you for wanting to stay home for your wife’s birthday. As you say, that will give us an opportunity to discuss thoroughly matters which may come up at the December meeting. I confess, however, that I am alarmed at the idea of your being away from the School any longer than that. Not that I blame you for wanting to spend your wedding anniversary at home either, but I really think you are needed in Jerusalem.
One thing which strengthens this feeling is the fact that I received recently a very long and distressing letter from Aage Schmidt. Of course I know how to evaluate most of it, but there are a few underlying questions which cause me real concern. There is no use trying to take them up in a letter, but before you go back I want to talk them over with you. There are things which really call for your presence and guidance at the School as soon as possible. Among other things, I may say, I gather that Mrs. Pommerantz and Shukri have not been hitting it off too well together, and Shukri has been pouring out his complaints into Schmidt’s ears. That, you will agree, is not a desirable situation. The other matters can wait until I see you.
Of course the job of working up lecture notes on Ezion-geber will have to wait its turn. It will be a great help for you to do it at all while you are in this country.
I am glad to hear that your letter from Mrs. Rosenthal indicates that conditions in Palestine are not as tense as the newspapers indicate. I am afraid, however, that since she wrote matters have been getting worse rather than better.
Jeffery writes that he is still interested in going to Jerusalem as our Annual Professor next year, provided he can make ends meet financially. I hope you and he can agree on what work he should offer, so that we can include that in our projected catalogue. Incidentally, that is another job on which we can do something if you are here in January.
From several sources I have heard indirectly of Morgenstern’s illness. I understand that he is now recovering. Please convey to him my sympathy and my best wishes for a speedy recovery.
You have not let me know the ultimate result of your conferences with Morgenstern about severing your connection with HUC and accepting a permanent appointment with us. I want to send to the Trustees a statement of what I propose to recommend, and I should like to have the last word on the existing status of this matter. I enclose a draft of the statement I propose to send out. Please give it your O.K. as soon as possible. I do not want to embarrass Morgenstern or you by doing anything prematurely, but I believe our Trustees should have some time to consider such important proposals.
Yours sincerely,
Millar Burrows
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November 29, 1945
Dear Mrs. Pommerantz:
Thank you for your letter of November 11th, enclosing financial statements for October.
The orders for publications which you transmitted will be filled from here, and the bills will be sent to you, to be paid at the School. It should be easy enough to take care of the bookkeeping involved so that money will not have to be sent here. We shall state the amounts owed in American currency and leave it to you to take care of exchange. The three copies of the Westminster Historical Atlas to the Bible will have to be ordered from the Westminster Press. We shall ask them to send the copies directly to the persons named and send the bills to us here. We will then bill you for the amount, and expect you to collect from the purchasers.
I am glad you are receiving from Belgium the Antiquite Classique and Museon. It would be well to keep up informed regarding all such periodicals received on exchange, because from now on we shall ask the publishers to send them to you directly.
Herewith I am sending you a complete statement of the books we have secured for you. These have been paid for here and are being charged to the account of the Jerusalem School. You may therefore ignore bills sent to you by the publishers. If you receive any of the bills a second time, please ask the publishers to communicate with us.
It hardly seems worth while for you to send back to us the extra copy of Rowe’s “Four Canaanite Temples of Beth-Shan Vol. II, part 1”. Please write to the librarian of the Department of Antiquities at Baghdad and ask whether there is a copy of this work in the library of our School there, which is now under their care. If it is not, the extra copy might be sent to them. In that case, presumably, we should have to pay for it and charge it to the Baghdad School. If there is already a copy in our Baghdad School Library, and you can sell the extra copy in Jerusalem, this would be the best way to take care of the matter.
I hope you have received in the meantime the books from the University of Chicago Press.
We have shipped to you through the Smithsonian Institution the accumulated exchange periodicals which we have been holding during the war. These will fill up many of the gaps to which you refer in your letter, if not all of them. It did not prove practicable here to check through your list and avoid sending duplicate copies. If the packages contain duplicates of those you already have, you can doubtless dispose of the extra copies to advantage. Being all free exchanges or gifts, these have not cost us anything anyway.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Dr. Glueck.
Sincerely yours,
Burrows
President
P.S. We are also enclosing a list of all gifts and exchanges being sent to you through the Smithsonian Institution.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 1, 1945
Dear Nelson:
I have been talking with Bellinger, who is now the President of our local chapter of the AIA, about a good time for your lecture. He says that Monday, January 21, would be the best time for a joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute and the Classical Club. I think we could have the Semitic and Biblical Club participate also, though that would not be the normal time for their meeting. We have also, as you may remember, a small Oriental Club, with which I should like to have you meet separately. Please let me know whether this date would be acceptable to you.
I enclose for your information and record a copy of my reply to Aage Schmidt’s letter, which I mentioned in my letter yesterday.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 10, 1945
Dear Nelson:
Many thanks for your fine letter of the 4th. You’re a great comfort. On receiving your letter I at once sent the cablegram you suggested to Dr. Schmidt.
I shall follow your suggestion as regards making no proposal to the Board in so far as a permanent appointment is concerned. Your suggestion of a payment for your travel expenses instead of an increase in salary at present can be considered at our meeting, but personally I am inclined to prefer a specific increase in salary. I am inclined to prefer a specific increase in salary. This could be arranged quite apart from the question of tenure.
I have been corresponding with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association about the matter of annuities. They are somewhat uncertain about our eligibility for one of their policies, but a letter just received this morning makes a suggestion which you might consider when you are ready to reach a definite understanding with Morgenstern. The Vice-President of the Association writes,
“Let me say that when eligibility has been extended by this Association to specialized schools in foreign countries, we have been interested in funding retirement plans for a whole group of staff members, rather than for a single individual. I note the reference in your letter of November 21 to the institution with which your new appointee has hitherto been connected. If perchance he is still connected with a college or university in this country, he would, through this connection, be eligible to apply for a retirement annuity contract, and this contract could be used for the funding of benefits in connection with his new appointment. Even if he is on leave of absence from a college or a university, we would be willing to issue a contract to him. After the contract is issued we are quite willing to accept premiums from any source of that the contract could used as a basis of benefits in which you are interested.”
There are still things I want to talk about with you concerning the School, but they can wait until I see you.
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
December 18, 1945
Dear Nelson:
For your information I enclose a copy of a letter to John Wilson which I hope will have your approval.
I have just received your letter of the 15th. The reason Bellinger has not made arrangements with the AIA office about your lecture is that some uncertainty had developed regarding the date because of a threatened conflict. I understand that the difficulty has been resolved and that Bellinger is going ahead with the arrangement, though I have not yet had final confirmation from him. I will let you know definitely as soon as I can.
Yours sincerely,
Millar
[Handwritten note:] Also letter from the Director of Antiquities at Baghdad and my reply.
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December 18, 1945
Naji Effendi al-Asil, Director General
Director ate General of Antiquities,
Baghdad, Iraq
Dear Sir:
Your letter of October 21 (1538/147/35) has just been received. What you say regarding the equipment at Khorsabad seems to me entirely reasonable. Please follow your own judgment in this matter.
Dr. Wilson is about to leave for the Middle East. I am writing to him, repeating your suggestion, and authorizing him to discuss with you possible cooperative projects on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research as well as the Oriental Institute. He is a member of our Board of Trustees and our Executive Committee.
It is possible Dr. Wilson will not receive my letter before he sails. In that case, please inform him of what I have said.
I am hoping that Professor Speiser will have something definite to propose at the Annual meeting of our Board of Trustees next week. We shall inform you of any definite developments in our plans for resuming archaeological work in Iraq.
Yours sincerely,
Burrows
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December 18, 1945
Professor John A. Wilson, Director
The Oriental Institute
Chicago 37, Ill.
Dear John:
In the same mail with your letter of the 13th I have a letter from the Director General of the Iraq Department of Antiquities, expressing satisfaction at a letter from me assuring him that we wish to resume the work of the Baghdad School as soon as possible. He suggests that in view of your intention to visit Iraq this winter it would be well to have you look into the possibility of cooperative enterprises by the ASOR and the Oriental Institute. This strikes me as an excellent idea. As a trustee and a member of our Executive Committee you are in an excellent position to understand what we might be interested in doing and able to undertake. While of course you would not commit our Board to any specific representative of the American Schools of Oriental Research, and in that capacity please repeat in person the assurance of our eagerness to cooperate with the Department of Antiquities which I have already conveyed by letter, and please feel free to speak for us so far as consultation regarding possible projects is concerned.
In view of the imminence of your departure I am taking this step without previously consulting Speiser, the Director of our Baghdad School, or Glueck, its present Field Director, I am quite sure they would and will heartily approve. I am sending to both copies of this letter for their information.
With best wishes for the success of your trip and the Seasons’ greetings,
1946
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven 11, Conn.
12/26/46
Dear Nelson:
Your letter of the 12th, enclosing Newsletter and statements, has arrived. I am glad to know when you expect to leave for home, and I hope this will arrive before you go. Your letter of the 26th also has not been answered. Your decision to tender your resignation will ease the situation considerably, I am sure. I am sorry it seemed necessary, but it actually makes no difference in our actual relationships.
You will find enclosed the list of books given by Mr. Spoer. Please check it with the catalogue and see whether there are any books in the list not actually needed at the School. If there are, we can make excellent use of them otherwise.
I shall ask the Board, as you request, to authorize the expenditure of not more than $1600 for a new septic tank, if this proves necessary. The only way to do it, I suppose, is to authorize the inclusion of this item in the budget for next year. The money, presumably, would have to come from our war-time reserve.
Thanks for the word about Gerald Ford. I am glad to know that he is to be a regular student at the School next semester, and I hope that his draft board will approve.
We shall take up the matter of having the Journal of Biblical Literature sent to the School again, including back numbers since 1937. As to the exchanges, as I told you previously, we held them here during the war because it was impossible to send them. Since then we have been sending them over in small parcels, some of which should surely have arrived by this time. If there are duplicates of those you receive directly, you may present them to the Ecole Biblique or any other worthy institution which does not have them. We really should have a list of all the periodicals you receive at the School, so that we could know whether or not to send you the copies received here as exchanges. A certain amount of duplication is involved in the fact that we get some exchanges for our own publications be sent to the School directly. We have no exact record of periodicals with which this is actually done.
The photographs of the Station Wagon have just arrived. I will present one to Mr. Petersen and I know he will be pleased with it.
Please convey my greetings to all the members of the School. I fully intended to write every one of them a personal Christmas letter, but I failed to get around to it in time. Tell Professor Jeffery that I will be writing to him soon.
Hoping to see you before long,
Sincerely yours,
Millar Burrows
1947
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven 11, Conn.
January 29, 1947
Dear Nelson:
You can tell how glad I am to have you back by the fact that I seem to be getting the habit of writing to you every day. This, however, is a real SOS. On February 10 and 14 I have to give lectures for the AIA (one in Hartford and one in New York) on the work of our Schools. It would be a tremendous help in making these lectures interesting and up-to-date if you have brought with you any new photographs from which I can get slides made between now and the time of my lectures. Since it takes quite a while now to get slides made, I’d appreciate it if you can mail to me at once any suitable pictures you may have. I will return them promptly.
Sincerely,
Millar
P.S. – Just got your letter. We’ll have to take a mail vote of the Board on the question of giving Miss Brown the rest of Pope’s fellowship.
You are right about the increase in your salary. I’ve been going back through our files and can’t find that we even instructed the bank to make the charge, which the Board authorized for the year beginning July 1, 1946. I’ll see that the matter is rectified immediately.
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven 11, Conn.
February 20, 1947
Dear Nelson:
It appears that you have received $1500 for the archaeological work of the School for this year. This is one half of the amount appropriated for this purpose in the budget.
I have had two letters from Jeffery since you were here, and he promises a Newsletter about the trip to Egypt as soon as he can get it typed. He says that he and Mrs. Jeffery would be perfectly satisfied to stay there for the rest of their lives.
Sincerely yours,
Millar
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
March 19, 1947
Dear Nelson:
In checking on our budget we have found no record that the $350 refund of your travel expenses, included in this year’s budget, was ever paid. Please check your own records, and if you find that you did not receive this refund, we will instruct the bank to send it to you.
Sincerely yours,
Millar
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
409 Prospect St., New Haven 11, Conn.
March 28, 1947
Members of the Jerusalem School Committee:
At Professor Cadbury’s request I am sending you this communication. You will find enclosed a card address to Prof. Cadbury for an expression of your judgment on the following question:
Professor Ovid R. Sellers can get leave-of-absence from McCormick Theological Seminary for the year 1948-49. It has been suggested (not by him) that he would be an admirable Annual Professor for the Jerusalem School. Ordinarily we should not make an appointment so far in advance, but Professor Sellers would have the special advantage of being competent to act as Director of the School in case Dr. Glueck should be unable to return for that year. I therefore recommend that we appoint Professor Sellers as Annual Professor for 1948-49, with the understanding that he can serve as Director or Acting Director if necessary.
In order that Professor Cadbury may report the judgment of the Jerusalem School committee, please let him know promptly how you feel about it.
Millar Burrows