The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The Humanities Program focus is to aid humanistic studies which have a direct relevance to contemporary life, support activities designed to interpret contemporary cultures and encourage study of foreign languages as an aid to eliminate barriers to international cooperation. Marshall travels to the Near East continues and he attends the Fourth Annual Near East Conference at Princeton University.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The program is concerned with history, philosophy, linguistics and the arts. Grants are organized into intercultural studies, humanistic research, the arts and special projects. Marshall's trip to the Near East continues in Lebanon and Turkey. In the United States, Marshall attends the Seventh Annual Near East Conference at Princeton University and takes a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts to visit the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The program is concerned with history, philosophy, linguistics and the arts. Grants are organized into intercultural studies, humanistic research, the arts and special projects. Marshall takes a trip to the Near East from 1 March-31 March 1957. Topics that are discussed during this trip include philanthropy and the arts in Turkey, the Istanbul Conservatory, and teaching English in Egypt. The diary also details Marshall's conversations with Lincoln Kirstein regarding his impression of performing arts in the United States and Canada.