| Description | Correspondence between Geoffrey Woledge [Librarian, Selly Oak Colleges] and Edward Cadbury with Arthur Jeffery [Department of Semitic Languages, Columbia University] arranging for Jeffery to complete Mingana's work on early Christianity in Arabia, 1938; Correspondence between Arthur Jeffery [School of Oriental Studies, the American University at Cairo] and Mingana, 1932-1937. Includes reports on the progress of their research work, including Mingana's discovery of and work on a manuscript of Bukhari's Salih, requests for photographs of manuscripts from the Mingana collection, including Al-Ukbari's text, Jeffery's reports of riots in Cairo, which he says have been exaggerated by foreign journalists, his travels in Europe and his appointment at Columbia University. |