Correspondence from Charles Pellat to Ehsan Yarshater

Correspondence from the French Algerian historian and scholar of Arab and Islamic studies Charles Pellat (1914-1992) to Ehsan Yarshater congratulating him as the recipient of the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for 1991 and inviting him to attend the next Levi Della Vida Conference in Paris. Pellat served as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1984 until the end of his life. Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886-1967) was an Italian-Jewish linguist. His scholarly interests included Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as the history and cultures of the Near East.