« Dear Jacques:
Many thanks for your letter of 12th July, which I have just found on my return to Princeton after a brief trip to Washington to attend a committee meeting on Turkish studies. I was delighted to hear from you again. (…)
       Your manuscript (López de Gómara) sounds very interesting and will no doubt give rise to a fascinating and important book. I shall forward to discussing it with you though I must warn you that my own knowledge of military and naval history is very limited. (…)
With all good whishes (…)
Yours sincerely,
Rúbrica
Bernard Lewis
Princeton, July 26, 1993.