[UNCOMMON TLS BY THE LEADER OF ALBANIAN MUSLIMS IN NORTH AMERICA] TLS by leader of the Albanian Muslims in the USA, Imam Vehbi Ismail dated 1980, addressed to Turkish professor of Albanology Necib Pehlivan Alpan (1920-2003)

ISMAIL, IMAM VEHBI (1919-2008) Typescript letter signed on paper with Ismail’s personal letterhead, telephone, his address “20426 Country Club Drive Harper Woods, Michigan 48236, U.S.A.”, and Basmala in Arabic with English translation. With its envelope with letterhead. 28x22 cm (open size). In Albanian. 16 lines on a single page. Dated July 8, 1980. An uncommon typescript letter with an autograph signature by the leader of the Albanian Muslims in North America sent to Turkish professor Alpan, presenting good wishes to him, and requesting Alpan’s two booklets about Albanian history and Albania (probably they should be “Tarihin Isiginda Bugünkü Arnavutluk” [i.e., Albania in Present Day in the Light of History] and “Albanolojinin Isiginda: Arnavut Alfabesi Nasil Dogdu?" [i.e., How was the Albanian alphabet born in the Light of Albanology] to the United States for the Jami's Library, probably for the library of a Muslim Mosque. Signed by Ismail in pen. "Dear Prof. Nexhip, we are well as a