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Pennsylvania
Speiser
January 5, 1929
Dear Nelson,

It was good to hear from you again. May our silence (?) not (?) to (?) attempt at (?); I was merely waiting for the seal, which I had promised you, to arrive. It is here now and you shall receive it soon although I am still {?) a good photograph. But this part is not so important.

Morgey wrote me the other day that you were getting along splendidly. Nothing new or (?) expected in that. The attitude and infuriating factors of some of your colleagues are all rather (?) and in (?); but it is all too insignificant, I am sure, to affect your over much.

My own private life has been rather quiet and uneventful although I (?) (?) the same claim he unmarred saintliness that you are in position to advance. It is (?) your own (?) when the right food is missing and you are too weary to be judicious. Moments, brief, unfulfilled, wholly irrelevant. I would kick away (?) whole (?) much for a day in Jerusalem or for (?) sight in Kurdistan.

Well, enough of this for a while. It will be time to see you again in March, though the winter has just come.

Fred

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Pennsylvania

Speiser, EA
October 3 ___ 1929?
Dear Nelson,

Your very welcome note found me in the midst of settling in my new little apartment and trying to pick up the loose threads on the side. I know only too well what your (?) feels like; I am seldom free from it myself thought it is usually vague and (?). Few days ago I read S. Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence”. To illustrate a point concerning the hero of the book the author cites from his own early experience as physician: In the hospital in which Maugham was a young (?), the best student by far was a young Jew by the name of Abrahams. All the prizes fell naturally to him and when, on his (?), there happened an unexpected vacancy in the staff (?) was naturally appointed. Fame and wealth were in his grasp, the (future) seemed assured in every possible way. Before entering on this (?) new post Abrahams obtained leave of absence for a Mediterranean trip. Two weeks later came his resignation. He had decided to remain in the (?) much to everybody’s surprised.

Some years later the author met Abrahams in Egypt. He was holding down a (?) medical post which barely sufficed to support him. The two friends dined together and a gave his version of the whole matter: He had left (?) with every inention of returning full of plans for the future. But when he had arrived in Alexandra something very strange took place since his birth and leaving it was entirely out of the question. Forces where existence he had never suspected took possession of him and settling right there on the spot had seemed simply a matter of course. There had been absolutely no other way. He had learnt for the first time what it meant to live with every hidden bit of himself in action. Was he well off? No, he just managed to exist. But he was happy, alive to a quiet, [full] joy. He had never regretted his step.

Most of Maugham’s readers may think the incident an invention, or, at best, grossly exaggerated. But you and I need no further proof. What should we say, we whose [ninemost] selves (?) (?) in half-alien Egypt but in our very, very own (?)? We understand we [muse] and for a happy hour or two we dream that we are there again.

Are there any news here? I really don’t know and I am in no mood for giving irrelevant news. Perhaps it will all seem more important when I write the next letter and I shall [prove] them a more faithful (?)

Yours
Fred

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The American Journal of
Semitic Languages and Literatures
EDITORIAL OFFICE
November 30, 1929
Professor Nelson Glueck,
Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
My dear Glueck: –

I thank you for the reprint of your article on recent archaeological work in Palestine. you made a very fine survey of the field. You will be very much interested to know apiece of news regarding the American School at Jerusalem, which will be made known t the public in a short time. Perhaps our friend Albright, when he hears of this news, will wish that he had not accepted the Johns Hopkins post, for I believe Albright would prefer to be in Jerusalem if conditions were right.

I trust you are getting along well with your work and enjoying it. I take it for granted that you are in this kind of work because you love it. You doubtless realize that the financial remuneration will never be on a par with that received by men of equal ability in other lines.

With kindest regards in which my family joins,

Yours cordially,

J.M. Powis Smith

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1930

The American Journal of
Semitic Languages and Literatures
EDITORIAL OFFICE
October 21, 1930
Professor Nelson Glueck,
Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
My dear Glueck:

I have just received a letter from Mr. Randall expressing his regret over the delay in sending your copies of the P.E.F. Quarterly Statement. I trust that everything will be right form now on.

I have recently been notified that I have been appointed a member of the committee to revise the American Standard Version of the Old Testament. I notice that there are no Jews on this committee. Perhaps the Jews are not interested in the proposition. In any case I am inclined to think that an opportunity should be given to them to cooperate. If they should so desire, what one man would you recommend to membership on the commission.

Grace, my daughter, was married last May to a very nice young fellow named Gates. They are now living in the same building that I am, so that she is not wholly removed form us.

With kindest regards
Yours cordially,
J.M. Powis Smith

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The University of Chicago
The American Journal of
Semitic Languages and Literatures
EDITORIAL OFFICE
November 4, 1930
Professor Nelson Glueck,
Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
My dear Glueck:

In response to yours of October 29^th, I would say that so far as I know the Commission on the Standard Bible revision will not be dominated by any theological prejudices or creeds. However, I have not yet met with the Commission and can make the statement only on the basis of what of some of the men who are participating in the work. I am not at all sure that the Commission will be willing to take in a Jewish member. The International Council of religious Education, which has appointed it, is made up of members of Christian Protestant churches entirely, and they may be unwilling to go outside of that circle and take in a Jew. However, I shall certainly make the proposition when I get to New York on November 21^st, and see how they react to it. The name I have in mind to propose would be one of the following: President Morgenstern, Max Margolis, and Prof. Buttenwieser.

Yours sincerely,
J.M. Powis Smith

1932

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
February 6, 1932
Mr. Nelson Glueck
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, Ohio
My dear Mr. Glueck:

I shall be glad to publish Maisler’s note in AJSL as early as I can, but that will probably not be until next October.

I hope to meet you at the spring meeting of the American Oriental Society. I am taking the spring and the summer as my vacation this year and I am going to England, but I don’t think I shall start until after the meeting of the Society.

I understand that you are now married. I trust that everything is going well with you.

Yours cordially,
J.M. POWIS SMITH

1933

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
MARY H. SWINDLER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, BRYN MAWR, PA.
June 2, 1933
Mr. Nelson Glueck
American School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dear Mr. Glueck:

Thank you for the interesting article written by Mr. and Mrs. Horsfield and yourself on the prehistoric rock carvings. I shall be glad to use this article in an early number of the Journal. We do not often have material from this field and are glad to get it. I am considering what to do with the illustrations and think we can have two or three pages with the tracings on tissue inserts to fit them as in Breuil’s publication. I should be glad to use all the material but, of course, I must be careful of the expense. I am afraid I cannot print the excellent photograph of traffic difficulties – which would amuse the readers very much. I shall send you proofs as soon as I can and will print the article in the near future.

Very sincerely yours,

Mary H. Swindler

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Aug 2, 1933
Dear Professor Glueck,

I enclose page proofs of your article which comes at the opening of the Journal in a more popular section called Archaeological Notes. Since it is the second article in this, the first figure is Fig. 3. I will ask them to send me the transparent pages printed. I have seen the stock to be used.

Please return this proof at your very earliest convenience to the above address.

Mary H. Swindler

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DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
BRYN MAWR, PENNA.
Dear Professor Glueck,

I hope your corrections got in The Journal is one to appear on Sept. 20. I had told them to go ahead because of the long delay. I had written for your Ms. because I needed it to have an (?) tracing remade- (Pl) XLI (?) not really get over the photographs. But the material was not sent.

Of course it is too late to add one extra tracings and I have already spent more on your article than I should. The material will come out well when printed.

I sympathize with you about the Neuvelle Statement and hope we got (?)

Sincerely yours,
Mary H. Swindler

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
MARY H. SWINDLER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, BRYN MAWR, PA.
July 11, 1933
Dear Professor Glueck,

I shall see that you get the copy of the A.J.A. which you wish when I return to Bryn Mawr. I am now on vacation at my home in Indiana.

You will doubtless by this time have received my letter acknowledging receipt of (?) Ms. on the (?). Because of the general appeal and popular character of this material I shall doubtless set it up in the front sections of the Journal called Archaeological Notes. As I am afraid, missing (?) and as it is necessary to set this up at once on account of other articles going in Europe, I Shall read the gallery in this myself and give a page proof in your arrival in this country. Other wise, I doubt my ability to use it until December. I hope this meets with your approval. I shall nonetheless be in Ondemia until Sept. 1^st, but Bryn Mawr will always let me.

Sincerely yours,
Mary H. Swindler

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
Speiser, EA
(Fred)
October 5, 1933
Oriental Studies
Dear Nelson,

No need telling you now how badly I felt on learning that I had missed you and Helen by an hour or so; I got back to my apartment a short time after Montgomery had called. It has been a darned long time since we met at the Hague.

I have been following with the greatest interest, and with something more than that, your reports from TransJordan. When Montgomery told me of your plan to go back there in February, I immediately suggested that the Schools get in on this excellent scheme, if possible. As you now doubt know, there is a lot of trouble in Iraq just now. A new law of antiquities is in preparation, which will be unfavorable to the excavators. As a countermove on our part, all expeditions have been called off. We are in for a waiting game and no one can foretell the outcome. Unless the Iraqis give in, there will be no work in Mesopot this year and for years to come. Moreover, the Assyrian trouble would have precluded immediate operations in the north regardless of other complications. I can think of no better substitute for the Baghdad School than a start in Transjordan and Arabia. Dougherty was entrusted with a mission to [Teima] for the Baghdad School, but for some obscure reason he chose to go to the other place. The Arabian land is a borderline territory to which both schools may lay claim. The association of the Baghdad branch with your project should solve quite a few difficulties.

Bart and Montgomery approve heartily. We do not know as yet whether there will be any money available; I hope that it will turn out to be so. At any rate, Cy Gordon, our Baghdad Fellow, is unemployed just now and you may have his services for the asking. All this may lead to something more impressive later on.

As for my personal status, it is not exactly “neither here nor there” as you seem to have heard. To use a grammatical phrase, I don’t care for the Shwa Medium position any more than the Quiescens; but the Mobile cannot be assumed without serious sacrifices, so that is that for the present. A good Dagesh Forte might help a lot, but this is no time for being punctilious. Well, enough of this nonsense.

Though the season has barely started, I am looking forward to the X-mas vacation, and you are to blame for this unbecoming attitude. So long until then,

With loads of the bestest to both of you,

Fred

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1934

January 26th, 1934
Dr. E.A. Speiser
Dept. of Semitics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Dr. Speiser:

Dr. Glueck has been in Baltimore and has talked over a program for the forthcoming dinner with Dr. Albright. If the following is agreeable to you, this is the plan which has been outlined:

Mr. Henry [Morgenthau?] Sr. will be the Honorary Chairman, and Mr. Edward N.M. Warburg will act as presiding officer at the meeting. Dr. Albright suggests that Dr. Glueck be the first speaker and will devote his remarks to the archaeological work in Transjordania with which he has been connected on behalf of the American School of Oriental Research, and the Transjordania Arachaeological Survey, which he expects to take up again on his departure. Dr. Glueck will show some of the best slides he has illustrating this archaeological work, and will include a couple of slides which we have had prepared here, dealing with the excavations at Samaria in which the Hebrew University engaged jointly. Dr. Glueck also has and intends to use as illustrations, slides showing the Beth Alpha excatation which was done entirely under the Hebrew University supervision. Dr. Glueck will not say anything about the work of the Hebrew University beyond this, since he himself has not been connected with it and is not in close touch with Dr. Sukenik.

Drs. Albright and Glueck suggest that you be the second speaker and Dr. Albright believes you will probably want to speak about the opportunities which the Hebrew University has for archaeological work in Mesopotamia. If this is in the line with your thoughts about the matter, we should appreciate having from you are your earliest convenience a synopsis of your address — one of two pages.

Dr. Albright will be the final speaker and will concentrate attention on the Hebrew University and what it has done in the field. He just returned from Palestine last week and having been in touch with the Hebrew University, he is fully conversant with the needs of the Archaeological Department of the Hebrew University and has already given us a brief outline which I shall send you in a few days, of what he conceives to be the natural growth of that department.

There will probably be one more speaker, either Mr. Warburg himself or another present, who will definitely ask for funds, but who this will be has not yet been decided.

We agree with Dr. Albright and Dr. Glueck that none of the addresses should be longer than fifteen minutes in order that the interest of the audience may be sustained. I presume that you are also agreeable to this.

Invitations will be issued in the next several days and I am glad to tell you that we have had acceptances as sponsors from a number of prominent persons in New York, who we hope will not only be present, but will [lend] their concrete support.

Will you please let us hear if this program is satisfactory to you at your earliest convenience?

Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
Julietta B. Kahn
Corresponding Secretary

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA
Oriental Studies
Semitics
July 15, 1934
Dear Nelson:

Thanks for your good letter, and heartiest congratulations on your accomplishments. As I assured you before you left, the Baghdad School made no mistake in grabbing you, even though it meant inflating certain geographic boundaries.

I am Director of the Baghdad School, but I did not want the position in the least. As it is, I have enough administrative duties to keep me stepping. Brown is away, which leaves the JAOS to me for a whole year. Burrows’ vacation means ditto for the ANNUAL. Then there is the Monograph Series of the AOS and the Baghdad School Series, with the consequent negotiations with various publishing and printing firms in addition to galley slaving.

Incidentally, your own contribution is edited and will be sent to the printer as soon as the rest of the ANNUAL has been assembled. I had to change the footnote numbers to read consecutively, otherwise there was not much to do on it. Both Albright and Burrows have been over it and, unless you insist on it, I shall not be planning to send the proofs to you. The chances are that you will find them here when you visit us on your home.

In the meantime, my personal wishes remain,
As ever,
Fred

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Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati
Sept. 23, 1934.
Dear Fred:

My father-in-law has made further inquiries for me with regard to Max, but to no avail. No more candidates will be accepted this year. If I may, I should like to suggest, that his application should be sent in soon for next year.

If it is not too late, I wonder if you could substitute the enclosed two sheets for the corresponding pages of my article?

As soon as I hear from Barton, I shall decide whether or not I shall come to Philadelphia at the end of this month, or wait till Xmas.

Looking forward to seeing you,
I am, as ever,
yours,

 

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AMERICAN
SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
FOUNDED 1900
INCORPORATED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
November 5,1934.
Dear Professor Glueck:

I am writing you for Dr. Speiser to ask that you let him know at your earliest convenience how many reprints of your article for the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research you want in addition to the 25 that are sent to you free. IT does not seem practical to include this article in the offprint series, since, because of its length, it would almost equal the Annual in price.

Very sincerely yours,
Lillian C. Hermann

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Prof. Nelson Glueck
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, Ohio
Speiser
Nov. 6, 1934.
Dear Fred:

I have just received a special delivery from Lillian C. Herman asking me to let you know at my earliest convenience how many reprints of my article in the Annual I should like to have in addition to the 25 that would be sent to me free. I should like 25 additional copies. I have been thinking that if the article appeared in the offprint series it might [eventually] be bound together with the subsequent article I am now preparing, dealing with the rest of the Iron Age and all of the Bronze Age Moabite pottery, all the Edomite material. However, it makes absolutely no difference to me one way or the other.

Will I be able to read page proof, or are you tending to that? There was primarily the matter of the changing of the numbers of the photographs and perhaps of the plates, and the insertion of several additional notes

As ever, sincerely yours,
NG

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AMERICAN
SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
FOUNDED 1900
INCORPORATED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
November 13,1934.
Dear Nelson:

Your corrected page proofs have been returned to Furst. I have attended to the “see above’s” and “see below’s”, checked the illustrations and equalized your spelling of the place-names as between the text and final list. I think that all is in order now and there is no need to delay the publication by submitting the proofs to you.

As regards the inclusion of your contribution in the offprint series, I saw only one objection to this plan. Since your essay occupies about 7/8 of the entire volume, it would have to be priced at something like $2.00, and at that price would offer too little leeway as compared with the $2.50 for the volume as a whole. On the other hand, there is sure to be some advantage in having the publication listed separately in such periodicals as may get it for review purposes. Moreover, Burrows is very anxious to see our young Offprint series “grow and multiply.” I have ordered therefore, 100 copies (Offprint series mimimum) and will have the additional 50, which is the balance between what you want and what we have ordered, priced at $1.75. The review copies will reduce the number available for sale to something like 40. Since you wrote me that you didn’t care in particular what disposition would be made of the separates, I take it that you will survive the extra charge for the offprints (which are at the author’s risk). For all we know, the ultimate results from the sales might buy you another Chevrolet truck.

When are you coming down east? Will Helen be along?
Yours as ever,
Fred

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Oct. 22, 1934.
Professor Ephraim A. Speiser
Department of Semitics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Fred:

Under separate cover I am returning the proofs I received a little more than a week ago. I am enclosing two additional photographs, which I should like to see included. They are fig. 13c and 13d. However, it will be no catastrophe if they cannot be added. I have inserted them on p.9 of the proofs. I have placed the numbers under the photograph and plans, corresponding to those in the text. However, they will almost all have to be changed, because there are, for instance, two figures 16 [and two figures 21] among the photographs, which I have labeled 16 and 16a [and 21 and 21a] respectively, for the present. Furthermore, plates 27 and 28, as now reduced should be combined into one plate. I had listed them originally as separate plates, because I thought it might be well not to reduce these plates. The same with pl. 24. Plates 24, 27 and 28, as now reduced, will occupy one and a [half] pages. I could send in another plate of pottery to fill the extra half page, but would prefer to have [full size plates] 24, 27, and 28 reproduced on separate pages. That is for editorial decision.

Mr. Moon writes me that among the tasks of the treasurer is that making up the budget. Will you please let me know tentatively what the requirements for the Baghdad School will be for 1935-36? I owe you as Director of the Baghdad School a report on the expenditures of the recently completed survey. You shall have it as soon as possible. I believe I told you, that I sold the truck, receiving the equivalent of $900 for it. I turned it over to Albright as advance payment of [part of?] this year’s budget for the Jerusalem School. I did that in order to save exchange rates two different ways. The Baghdad School expedition in southern Transjordan will have to be credited with $900. It is simply a matter of book keeping. I still have a small cash surplus. I shall want to use it and a part of the $900 to pay for the preparation of photographs, plates, and maps to be included in the report of this year’s survey of Edom. After all expenses have been paid, there will be a surplus of between $600 and $700 to turn back into the treasury of the Schools.

I have begun writing the report on Edom, which I hope can be published in the subsequent Annual. It will require about twice as much space as the report which you are now seeing through the press. Many thanks for all the trouble you have taken with my paper.

I shall not be coming east till the December meeting.

With heartiest greetings, as ever,
sincerely yours,

P.S. Enclosed two photographs.

Pp. 104-6 of the MSS. were not printed. I thought it would make the map more intelligible by having this List printed on the page opposite the map. The sites are no listed numerically [in order] in the text.

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Prof. Nelson Glueck
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, Ohio
Nov. 21, 1934.
Professor Ephraim A. Speiser
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Fred:

Thanks for all the pains you have taken with my article. The arrangement you have made for the Offprint Series is perfectly acceptable to me.

I am wondering how much space you will be able to give me for the publication of the Edom and the rest of the Moab materials, on which I am now working. If the article now in press occupies about seven eighths of the fortcoming Annuale, the next article will have to be bound in a volume with rubber binding. I should like to complete the publication in the next Annual, but will require considerably more space than in the volume now in press.

I assume that Albright has written you and Burrows that he has just written me, that he desires a volume in which to publish the Bethel materials.

I shall not be coming east till the December meeting of the Schools. Helen, I am sorry to say, will not be able to come along. She is interning now in the Cincinnati General Hospital, and will not be able to get away. As a matter of fact, I might almost just as well be in Palestine for all that we get to see each other. This two-career system has its drawbacks. Either I am in Transjordan, or Helen is confined to the Contagious Ward in the hospital.

With heartiest greetings from both of us, as ever yours,

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AMERICAN
SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
FOUNDED 1900
INCORPORATED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
November 30, 1934
Dear Nelson:

Imprimis, congratulations on your contribution to the Annual, this time, now that the Annual is out, from a reader instead of the editor. I trust that you will be pleased with the final result.

This is the fitful period when budgets are being prepared. You have asked me to submit suggestions for the budget of the Baghdad School. Before doing so, however, there are some things that must be pointed out: (a) it is practically certain that the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania will not participate in our Mesopotamia dig next year. Inasmuch as the Museum’s contribution amounted to approximately two-thirds of the total cost ( counting running expenses, workmen and staff) we could not possibly carry on on our own without a very considerable increase in funds appropriated by the Schools. It seems clear to me that our Mesopotamian expedition is one of the few things that we cannot very well abandon. It has brought far more desirable publicity than Jerash could bring us in a year of Sundays. It has accomplished also incomparably more on the scientific side of the ledger. In fact, it is the independent and original work in such places as Mesopotamia, Edom and sites like Tell Beit Mirsim that we must concentrate on rather than on secondary results of a late date as Jerash has to offer. In other words, we must do our best to plan for a season of excavations at Gawra and Billah in the near future with no partners if need be. More than ½ of theGawra mound has been taken down and lower strata promise to be of fundamental importance. It is probably also the one mound that stands the best chance of being finished from top to bottom in another few seasons.

I think, therefore, and I am sure that you will agree with me, that our best policy is to suspend excavations for one year, so as to have sufficient funds for the year after. By sufficient, I would imply at least 2 ½ times the appropriation allowed for Mesopotamia this year, the overhead being the same whether we emply 50 of 150 workmen, — it is the interest of the economy to get the largest possible number of workmen that the staff can reasonably direct. The Baghdad budget for the current year reads, I am informed, as follows:

Excavations                $   4500
Fellow                              1500
Part salary of
Field Director                2500

If the same amounts are set aside for 35-36 and duplicated the following year, I doubt whether the total will be sufficient for a respectable dig, but I am convinced that the dig must be undertaken for us to retain any self-respect. Can you apply your fiscal genius to the task of increasing this sum? Inshallah, by gum.

I believe that an Annual Professor is appointed for 36-37 so that an additional $2000 will have to be provided for somehow. That year may see our last splurge for some time to come, unless the Rockfellers suffer ( or enjoy ) a change of heart, so let that be a good splurge.

Then there is left the matter of publications. The Baghdad library allowance has run $1000 per annum so it will be necessary to make a similar or at worst a slightly lower provision for next year, since we must build up the library gradually. A hitherto unexpended item is represented by the $2500 allowed by the Gawra volume. But that is untouched so far on paper only. The plates for the volume are now being engraved, as you will soon know from the bill, and the manuscript will go out as soon as I get a two weeks breathing space. We may be able to save about $200 from [incomplete]

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1940

MRS. ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
5 EAST 80^TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
January 4^th, 1940
Dear Dr. Glueck:

Thank you for sending me the interesting clipping. My heartiest congratulations on the recognition of your splendid work an on the receipt of the Sachs scholarship.

I hope that your trip back to Jerusalem will be a pleasant one, and that we may have the pleasure of seeing you on your return in September.

With all good wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
Nelson Glueck, Esq.

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WHITE PLAINS 156
JULY 22^ND, 1940
HILLANDALE
NORTH STREET
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK
Dear Mr. Glueck,

How thoughtful of you to send me a copy of your book “The Other Side of the Jordan.” I know I will find it most interesting and instructive, and, also, it will bring back happy recollections of delightful, but much too mare, greetings with you. I hope you will let us know when you are again in this neighborhood.

Mr. (?) joins me in sending kindest regards to Mrs. Glueck and yourself.

With best wishes,

I am sincerely

(?)

1941

Hotel Delmonico
PARK AVENUE AT 59^TH STREET
New York
May 26, 1941
Dear Dr. Glueck:

Are you planning to be in New York in the near future?

If you are, I shall be pleased to have you get in touch with me.

With warmest greetings to Mrs. Glueck.

Sincerely,
Salmann Schocken.

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON, U.S.A.
September 29, 1941
Dear Dr. Glueck:

Referring to your letter of July 31, addressed to Mr. Setzler and transmitting your paper entitled “The Excavations of Solomon’s Seaport: Ezion-Geber,” for use in the Smithsonian Annual Report, I note your suggestion that the map from “The Other Side of Jordan” accompany the article. We should like to use this map, but prefer to have the original drawing, rather than the plate, as the plate may not be the right size for our Report. Would it be possible for you to send us the original map?

It has been necessary to amplify your footnotes to conform to our style, and there are three notes that we are unable to complete because the references are not available. It will be appreciated if you will furnish the following information:

Footnote 5: Author, title, and date of publication (Zeitschrift des deutschen
Palästinavereins).

Footnote 16: Initials of authors (Woolley and Lawrence), and date of publication
(Carcemish II). 1921

Footnote 24: Author and title of article.

Glueck, N: The [] Season of Excambion of Tell el-Kheleifeh

1. Leonard Woolley

T.E. Lawrence

Thanking you for your cooperation, I am
Very truly yours,
Chief, Editorial Division.

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Dr. Nelson Glueck,
Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Seton Village
Santa Fe, New Mexico,
5 September 1941.
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
162 Glenmary Avenue,
Clifton,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dear Dr. Glueck:

I am really sorry I missed you, when you were in New York last June. The heat and humidity literally drove me from the city.

During the past two months I have been resting in the mountains of Colorado, where I have been concentrating upon the study of English. Vacations invariably have a way of dealing roughly with my correspondence. Please accept, therefore, my sincere apologies for this belated reply to your letter of 2 Jul 1941.

As you know, I left Jerusalem almost a year ago. During my last week there, proposal regarding the Department headed by the late Professor Klein were considered at several meetings. Nothing decisive was then agreed upon and I am now unacquainted with the latest details. It is my earnest hope to be able to return to Palestine in the not-too-far-distant future and shall at that time look into this affair.

It is very possible that we shall have an opportunity to meet, prior to my return. We might then be able to discuss the Maisler matter.

With the most cordial of New Year greeings.
Sincerely yours,
Salmann Schocken.

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Hotel Delmonico
PARK AVENUE AT 59^TH STREET
New York
Salmann Schocken
CABLE ADDRESS
DELMONIC
October 16, 1941
Dear Dr. Glueck:

I thank you very much indeed for sending me the reprint form CCAR Yearbook vol. LI. Up to now I was just able to look it over superficially but I am looking forward to going into it more thoroughly.

I still regret not to have seen you in July. I am not certain whether I shall find occasion to come to Cincinnati as I am considering returning to Palestine before long. With kind regards,

Yours very truly,
Salmann Schocken

1942

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
February 24, 1942.
Dr. Nelson Glueck
Cosmos Club
Washington, D.C.
Dear Dr. Glueck:

After consideration of your of February 17, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has agreed to make a grant of $1,000 for participation in your proposed archaeological survey of Transjordan. It is noted that you wish the money placed at your disposal through the American Schools of Oriental Research, c/o President Millar Burrows, 409 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut. Please inform me, a reasonable time in advance, when you wish the money made available. The grant will be made from the Bruce Hughes Fund of the Smithsonian Institution.

In accordance with your discussion of this matter it is understood that the National Museum will receive a representative collection of the archeological material obtained, which will be principally pottery. It is noted that some of this material is now available. The funds given to you are to be used to finance actual work in the field in Transjordan, including the employment of necessary assistants, and not for expenditure for other matters.

Permit me to say that the work in which we participated at Ezion-Geber has been so completely successful that we are pleased indeed at the opportunity to continue in these further researches.

Sincerely yours,
A. Wetmore,
Assistant Secretary

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
March 17, 1942.
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
162 Glenmary Avenue,
Clifton,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dear Dr. Glueck:

In accordance with the arrangements that we have made I have just sent a check for $1,000 to Dr. Millar Burrows in New Haven to be credited to your account for your new work in Transjordan and adjacent areas. A copy of my letter to Dr. Burrows is enclosed herewith for your record.

This morning I received a letter from John A. Wilson with further regard to Mr. Twitchell. It appears that Dr. Wilson’s first letter to me was not clear. Mr. Twitchell is a mining engineer who is returning to Saudi Arabia on work in connection with his profession. He plans to suggest to King Ibn Saud the value of archeological work in his kingdom, so that this should be of assistance in your own investigations. I hope indeed that opportunity may develop to go over into the region that we examined on the map.

The $1,000 is given to you as a grant form the Smithsonian Institution for your archeological investigations in Transjordan and elsewhere in that region as opportunity and your judgment may direct. Necessarily you will need to be governed in your studies by the area that seem most important or that are available at the time. These matters we leave entirely to your discretion. You know the region and the people and on the ground can decide the most important thing to do.

May I give you again my best wishes for your success. We shall look forward to hearing from you as opportunity offers.

Sincerely yours,
A. Wetmore
Assistant Secretary.

1944

HENRIETA SZOLD
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE
March 23, 1944
Mr. Nelson Glueck,
American School of Oriental Research,
Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dear Mr. Glueck,

I delayed thanking you for your generous check until I could tell you how I was going to use it. For children, of course, but the needs of children and children’s institutions are so manifold and so urgent that the choice with me, at least, is never instantaneous. I came to the conclusion that it is the kindergartens of Jerusalem that deserve special attention when such opportunities are afforded as your little son’s birthday gift to me. I have been in correspondence with the Chairman of the Kindergarten Committee and she has sent me a proposal for the application of your son’s birthday gift which, I think, will please you and would please him if I had the opportunity of giving him an explanation. The Association of Kindergartens is going to apply the money to the purchase of appliances of specific kindergarten value. When I am in possession of the Association’s formal receipt, I shall sent it to you. I hope you approve.

My other hope is that by now you have recovered completely from the reception apparently accorded to you by “grippy” Palestine. and finally, I extend to you a belated welcome back to Palestine.

With many thanks to you for again making me your intermediary with children and with those who devote themselves to their care.

Yours very sincerely,
[Henrietta Saylor]

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May 20, 194-
Dr. Nelson Glueck
American School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem.
Dear Dr. Glueck:

Warm thanks to you in my own name for making me as before the intermediary between yourself and a generous deed, and in the name of the child, for the moment unknown to me who is going to enjoy Charlie’s birthday gift. There will be no difficulty about finding a child who will be the child. There are categories of children waiting for such windfalls as you have provided – the refugee child the homeless Palestinian child, the child who needs special care, the child who should have a stipend to prevent talent from going to waste, and so many, many more! An twenty-five pounds go a great way.

I hope you are having good news from America.

Yours sincerely,
Henrietta Szold

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
June 21, 1944
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
American School of Oriental Research,
Jerusalem, Palestine.
Dear Dr. Glueck:

Your News Letters always make me feel that I have had a personal communication from you. It is good to know that you have been again in the field and I hope that your investigations have been again in the field and I hope that your investigations have prospered. I am deeply interested as you know in the results of these investigations.

The war news I ever more favorable in our behalf and I am really looking forward now to a time when we will be at an end in this conflict so that we can take up peace time thinking once more. It is especially heartening to realize that our production of armaments has finally caught up with our needs sufficiently that there do not seem to be major shortages existing now of any kind. This must be hard news for the dictators as it spells their doom.

My work goes on here about as usual with a hectic scramble at times to get the necessary things done and then momentary lulls during which I may catch up on some of the more usual tasks. We are now in the midst of summer with beautiful weather so that it is a pleasure to be outdoors when opportunity presents. My one recreation these days is to spend all day Sunday on the river above Washington where it is quiet and there are no telephones to disturb me. A full day there, very often with only my own company, gives me opportunity to think and also to catch up on some of my own personal living.

I find in my science definite and certain relief from the mental troubles that must beset all of us.

Mr. Stirling had an excellent trip in Mexico again this year although his investigations were purely in a manner of reconnaissance. We hope, however, to develop some further work there this coming winter or, if not then, in another year.

With my kindest regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
A. Wetmore,
Assistant Secretary

1946

MRS. ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
229 WEST 43^RD STREET
NEW YORK 18, N.Y.
January 8, 1946.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Glueck:

I want to tell you how disappointed and I were at not having you stay with us at Hillandale on Saturday, As I wired you, Arthur has been in the hospital where he underwent an operation on his hand, and I naturally have been spending most of my time with him. When I returned home night before last I found your message and tried to call you back at the Waldorf only to get a succession of busy signals. I do hope that you will let me know when you next plan to come to New York and that you will consider this note a raincheck.

Arthur and I send you our best wishes for 1946. You will be pleased ot know that he is making a good recovery.

Sincerely yours,

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February 7, 1946
Dear Nelson:

My boys have no good reason for knowing about the connection of rosin with steel and copper smelting about which you spoke to me in New York, but one of them made a suggestion which I believe sounds reasonable if you haven’t already thought about it.

He said that the Iron and Steel Institute has a remarkable staff of scientists in the Empire State Building in New York, and that an inquiry from you would probably either get a direct answer or at least would start an investigation which would get you the information you desire.

I enjoyed being with you ever so much. My regards to your nice wife and your mother-in-law.

Sincerely yours,

Humphrey

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LEWIS L. STRAUSS
52 WILLIAM STREET
NEW YORK
June 18th, 1946
Dear Dr. Glueck:

I am not a writer of fan letters but I cannot refrain from writing to let you know how greatly I enjoyed your vivid, exciting and informative book about the River Jordan.

Faithfully yours,
Lewis Strauss

American School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem, Palestine
July 3, 1946
Mr. Lewis L. Strauss
52 William Street
New York
Dear Mr. Strauss,

Your letter of June 18th was forwarded to me from Cincinnati. I have been back here at my old post since early in March, carrying on as Director of the School. I have been on long leave of absence rom the Hebrew Union College.

It was very nice of you to sit down and write to me to let me know that you enjoyed THE RIVER JORDAN, I confes being very pleased by such a letter. I have never written anything quite like it before, and was not at all sure what its reception would be.

This is a remarkable land, and in spite of all its stresses and troubles I love it. It has had a tormented past and is having a tortured present, but still great things have always happened here and great events are still shaping themselves.

At the moment, the Jewish part of Palestine is being subjected to perhaps the most difficult trial of its history in modern times. It is very difficult to speak calmly about what is going on, or to determine clearly the trend of events and to mark out the path that should be sanely followed. There are so many outside political and other factors which influence the affairs and fortunes of this important little country and its inhabitants.

Sincerely yours
Nelson Glueck

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MEMORANDUM
October 23, 1946
TO: Messrs. Harmon
Milliken
Mayer
DeBra
Healy
FROM: Theodore Smith
Subject:          Proposed Plan of Procedure fir Assisting in the
Execution of Mr. Balaban’s Plan for an Educational Film
Program Designed for the Arab World

1. I feel that ideological content should compose a very much smaller proportion of film content than subjects having a direct impact on the mode of life of the people to see the pictures. A very high proportion of Arabian people have little, if any, concept of what we mean by political and social democracy. That might seem a reason for loading the program heavily with democratic ideology. I believe to the contrary that because of this comparative ignorance on their part of our modes of thought, that we must give them very little “democratic thinking” at a time. We shall be much more effective if we aim primarily, at first, in helping them in such matters as individual and public health problems, agricultural techniques, child care, use of machinery, food preservation, animal husbandry, etc. etc. If well chosen or well made pictures along these lines have a constructive effect on the day-to-day life of these people, that will be the entering friendly wedge behind which can follow equally valuable and less tangible education along the lines of democracy, tolerance, fair play, and the other values which clearly large sectors of Arab opinion do not seem at present to hold in high regard.
2. If the forgoing point is sound, then we must locate as carefully as possible those area in Arab life where pictures of the kind envisaged can make their most immediate and profitable impact. To locate these areas precisely we shall need precise and expert information. To get this information we must find the experts, and I shall shortly see Mrs. Vera Dean of the Foreign Policy Assn., in an effort to: a) explore the resources of that association, and b) to get form her the name or names of competent experts. Mr. Mayer suggests that a very important initial and probably continuing source of information, would be the diplomatic missions in those areas concerning which we want advice. This would be a most important kind of cooperative action on the part of the State Department and should be undertaken very soon so that form the start the State Department and this Association would be working hand in glove. Mr. Mayer has indicated that he will be in touch with the Council on Foreign Relations, with a similar purpose. I shall ask Mr. Linden to assist us by compiling a few titles form periodical and book indices and from the Public Library.

Suggestions and follow-up action to any other methods and sources for laying out the areas where we can be of most help, will be appreciated.

3. It may be necessary to secure the services of some one expert to appraise, collate, and summarize the facts as the preceding investigations reveal them. It is suggested that we all have in mind the possible necessity of getting such a person to work full-time for us on this project.
4. Assuming we now have those segments of Arab life well defined in which our pictures can be of real value, it will then be necessary to locate the pictures or parts of pictures already available which, with proper editing, can be utilized. This task will not be easy if it is thoroughly carried out. We shall certainly have to investigate, for example, the pictures made by, or known to, the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior. It may well be that some of our great oil companies and other major industries have pictures which would be useful. The write does not feel competent to outline the techniques by which films already in existence can be located.
5. Having now defined the areas where pictures can help, and having located the pictures already in existence which can help in those areas, the next task will be to determine what additional pictures should and can be made, who will make them, how much they will cost, etc. The answer to the question as to what pictures should be made, will be a by-product of the investigation of what pictures already exist. The determination of who will make them and how much they will cost, will be matters for decision by our companies’ executives.
6. Distributions and exhibition will doubtless follow the regular channels for our commercial pictures, but it was suggested by Mr. Harmon that the mobile 16mm. projection unit being initiated by two of our companies, may be an additional and very welcome outlet. I point out that very large numbers of Arabs live in small and rather isolated communities, and that some of them are semi-nomadic, and are thus unavailable to normal theatre exhibiting.
7. In view of the current dangerous and extremely explosive situation involving Arab peoples, as well as certain national rivalries and ambitions centering in the Eastern Mediterranean, it will be very easy for someone to raise the charge that this whole plan is a subtle attempt by the leaders of the American industry to influence the final disposition of the Palestine problem. Actually, it must be the hope of all of us that the possible success of this plan will contribute to a decent and reasonable solution of that unhappy question, but we may jeopardize the whole undertaking if any information concerning it should leak prematurely.
8. Solely in the interest of efficiency, I shall be delighted to receive, and report on, any and all suggestions and criticism relating to the general plan of procedure outlined above.

1947

Motion Picture Association
28 West 44^th Street
New York 18, N.Y.
ERIC JOHNSTON, PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF
FRANCIS S. HARMON
VICE-PRESIDENT
February 6, 1947
Dr. Nelson Glueck
162 Glenmary Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
Dear Dr. Glueck:

I can’t tell you how interesting and helpful my conference was with you this morning. I knew in advance, of course, just how voluminous is the information that you have at your fingertips, but the immediate and precise application of that information to the questions in which we are interested exceeded even my expectations.

I am enclosing a coptyof the questionnaire which we looked at this morning and also a copy of what I call the “basic” memorandum. Basic, however, does not mean that its contents are necessarily sound or complete and if you can improve the document from the point of view of either quality I should be delighted to have you do so.

My superior, Mr. Harmon, left last Friday on a month’s vacation, and it will be to him that I may bring up the question of retaining you if it appears that we are imposing too heavily on your time and expert knowledge. From time to time we shall undoubtedly have particular questions which I will want to send to you for counsel since you were generous enough to say you would be glad to assist us as we lay the foundations for this undertaking. Your response to the general plan was most heartening and I am sure that Mr. McCarthy as well as I was fired again with enthusiasm for the plan.

Let me thank you again most heartily.
Cordially yours,
Theodore Smith

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February 24, 1947.
Mr. Theodore Smith,
28 West 44^th St.,
New York 18, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Smith:

I have hardly been home any time at all since I had the pleasure of seeing you and Mr. McCarthy in New York. I repeat that your program made a strong impression upon me, and I believe that it deserves the support and success which you envisage for it. I have not had time yet to get over in detail the copy of the questionnaire you sent me. I shall do so as soon as possible.

In the meantime, I shall be glad to offer you such advice as you may think it worthwhile to ask me for.

Sincerely,

NG

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NELSON GLUECK
162 GLENMARY AVENUE
CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
April 22,1947
Dr. A. Wetmore
Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington 25, D.C.
Dear Dr. Wetmore,

In your letter to me of November 29, 1945, you referred to the Transjordan sherd-collections I had sent to the United States National Museum. I have not got a list of the sites included in the sherd collections. I am wondering if among them the following sites are included:

Rujm el-Kom
El-Beheirah
Khirbet Merqab        ‘Azn
El-Medineh
Tell Ya’amun
Muntar Yarin
Muntar el-Khaldeh
Zambut Meleik
Muntar Zibdeh

Sincerely yours,

NG

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
May 1, 1947
Dr. Nelson Glueck,
162 Glenmary Avenue,
Cincinnati 20, Ohio.
Dear Doctor Glueck:

In response to your inquiry of April 22^nd addressed to Doctor Wetmore, I may say that none of the sites therein listed is included in the collection of Transjordan sherds received from you a year and a half ago (Acc.162842).

I am reminded of the fragment of slag from the smelter at Ezion-geber, which fragment you asked me to have analyzed. Our mineralogists, delayed in their analysis by long absence in Japan, report there is nothing unusual regarding the fragment. It is an iron silicate slag and just what one would expect. Do you wish the fragment returned to you?

With all good wishes,
Sincerely yours,
F.M. Setzler,
Head Curator,
Department of Anthropology.

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SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
Publishers
ROCKEFELLER CENTER, 1230 Sixth Avenue, New York 20 ŸCABLE ADDRESS Essandess ŸTELEPHONE Circle 5-6400
May 22, 1947
Dr. Nelsen Glueck
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, Ohio
Dear Dr. Glueck:

In connection with advice which I need on one of our important publications, I have been referred to you by Dr. Abraham Franzablau. He tells me that you are in New York from time to time, and that there might be a possibility of my discussing with you the problem of personnel for a new Bible which we hope to issue. If you are to be in town in the near future, could I meet you somewhere for a brief talk? I should appreciate very much this opportunity of getting your counsel and advice.

Very sincerely yours,
Fred Bolman

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Dr. Nelson Glueck
162 [Glenmary] Av.
Cincinnati 20, 0.
May 27, 1947.
Mr. Fred Bolman,
Simon and Schuster, Inc.,
1230 Sixth Ave.,
New York 20, N. Y.
Dear Mr. Bolman:

I shall be glad to discuss with you the problem of personnel for a new Bible which Simon Schuster hopes to issue. I should be glad to see you on the morning of June 9th. I shall be at the Plaza and would be prepared to see you as early in the morning as you please.

Sincerely,

NG

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ISIS
Review of the History and Philosophy of Science
Organ of the History of Science Society
(Harvard Library 185, Cambridge 38. Mass.)
Sarton
9/3/1947
Dear Dr. Glueck,

Though I am not an archaeologist I have read all your letters to ASOR with deep interest and, except for this darker undertone, with pleasure. I am completely discouraged (?) (?) (?) in Palestine; I do not see how it can be cured. It was bad enough without the Jewish terrorists; they have made it hopeless. I can hardly bear to read the newspapers accounts; there is too much evil and misery in the world and one’s contributions are like a drop in the ocean. I feel that my main duty now is to do my own work.

Thanks for the letters and best wishes to you

George Sarton

—1950s—

1953

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
January 21, 1953
Dr. Nelson Glueck, President
Hebrew Union College
Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati 20, Ohio

Dear Dr. Glueck:

Your letter of December 23, enclosing a pamphlet dealing with the exhibit called “From the Land of the Bible”, reached me in due course. As you are perhaps aware, Dr. Kahane was in Washington several times during the last weeks of 1952 and at that time discussed with various staff members the matter of borrowing certain specimens from the Ezion-Geber collection. We are now awaiting a formal request from Dr. Kahan for the loan will depend on the scientific value and rarity of the specimens requested for a traveling exhibit. The Institution does not have an appropriation to defray expense of sending out such exhibits. Whenever such loans are requested all shipping and insuring charges must be born by the organization to whom the loan is made.

A few days ago Mr. F.M. Setzler, Head Curator, received from Alex. L. ter Braake a report on his analysis of ore and slag samples from the materials collected by you at Ezion-Geber. I enclose herewith a copy of Mr. ter Braake’s letter and of accompanying tabulation sheet. The unused portions of the samples have not yet been returned to us.

Sincerely yours,
Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, Curator
Division od=f Archeology
Enclosures

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P.O. Box 1461
Texas City, Texas
January 8, 1953
Mr. F.M. Setzler, Head Curator
Department of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
Washington 25, D.C.
Dear Mr. Setzler:

We have now completed our assay work on the samples from the Glueck collection which you were kind enough to leave in our care for so long. As explained to you at an earlier date, a long strike caused an accumulation of work in our laboratories and made it necessary to postpone this extra curricular work in which I have a personal interest.

I am enclosing a tabulation of our results. The pieces of heavily oxidized iron were of no interest to me and since it was difficult to sample them I have not included them in the assay program.

It is most interesting that all samples which were assayed here contained tin in addition to copper. You will remember that the main reason for asking you to make these samples available to me was to establish this fact.

Sample No. 388229 is a most unusual material because of its extremely high silica content and the fact that it contains 0.63% tin. Although it has the glassy appearance of a slag it cannot be a smelter product because of its high silica content and the resulting high melting point.

Sample No. 388361, three pieces, consist of slag, containing all the elemtns of such a metallurgical product. Its appearance, the conchial structure, the porous structure, the viscous flow lines on its surface all indicate that it is a slag but of greater significance as its tin content. To my knowledge it is the first proof of an ancient tin alloy metallurgical industry in the Holy Land.

Sample No. 388236, which is described by the Institution as an ore, is probably slag. Like No. 388361 it has the typical appearance and structure of a slag and the green coloration must be the result of oxidation of copper near its surface.

Sample No. 388371 is in the same category and I would classify it as slag.

It is quite obvious from the above that Ezion Geber was not primarily a copper smelter but a bronze smelter, or maybe both. The fact that all slag samples contain both copper and tin in a ratio averaging from 1 to 13.8, close to the ratio of tin and copper in bronze, proves the truth of this statement.

In your letter of July 24, 1952, you authorized me to use part of the slag samples for testwork. I pulverized a substantial part of these slags and washed the powder in an effort to find metal prills which would have disclosed more about the nature of the smelting charge. I was unsuccessful however and did not find any prills. This may indicate that these slags were rather the product of a metal remelt, such as the smelting of copper and tin bars for the production of bronze would be, than the result of metal production directly from ore. In the latter case it would almost be impossible to produce a slag completely free from metal prills.

The fact that Sample No. 388263, a piece of rich copper ore, contains only traces of tin indicates that tin has been separately added to the smelting charge. The source of this tin is unknown. Whether it was imported in the form of tin ore, tin concentrate or tin metal remains unanswered except for the observation made in the previous paragraph. Most historians believe that tin bars were shipped form Cornwall, Portugal or Spain (all three tin mining countries) to Tyre, either via Tharisis or present day France. Tin ore is also found in Egypt and we are presently receiving small shipments in Texas City from that country, consequently it was possible for the ancient smelter people to obtain tin supplies from that country.

It is to be regretted that so little attention has been given by archeologists to a more detailed investigation and description of the ancient smelters, furnaces, crucibles, raw materials and products. The picture of the Ezion Gebr smelter which Dr. Nelson Glueck has published in one of his books gives rise to my questions but so far they have to remain unanswered.

I wonder whether more samples of similar material could be located in other collections, in which case one might be able to draw a more complete picture of the work done by the metallurgists or old.

The samples will soon be returned to you.
Yours very truly
Alex. L. ter Braake
P.S. I enclose a copy of my letter and tabulation which you may care to forward to Dr. Glueck.