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Comprises: a note on suggested locations for Adrian Malone's visit to Tierra del Fuego in connection to Charles Darwin's visit in 1832; photocopies from articles and books; copies of Charles Darwin's log entries from HMS Beagle (Dec 1832) and a map showing the voyage of HMS Beagle; and copies of typed research notes on Tierra del Fuego national park in Argentina, Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle.

Also includes a copy of a note to Adrian [Malone] and Dick [Gilling] on the need for images of the Fuegians seen by Darwin, and a copy of a letter from Jo Marquand to Dr Peter Baker (Geophysics Department, Birmingham University) asking him to advise on the geological history of the Scotia sea (27 Jul 1970).

Three Trios: 25, 17, 21 - No. 26 Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz - 3 Fantasia sopra Freudich Sehr - Fantasia à giusto italiano. By Johann Ludwig Krebs.
Photocopy of different editions.

Three Short Anthems for Boys' voices (unaccompanied). I: "Jesus, so lowly", Edith Williams. In F sharp minor (metronome marking: dotted minim = 40). II: "Sing a song of joy", Thomas Campian. in A major (metronome marking: dotted minim = 68). III: "The isle of dreams", Robert Herrick. In E (metronome marking: dotted crotchet = 48).
Published by Novello & Company Limited.

Three related items on mints and moneyers:
(a) 'Coins in E.H.C. but not in lists', typescript (original or carbon-copy), two pages on two folios, unattributed and undated but with the latest reference to a lot that appeared in Glendining's sale of the Brettell collection on 18 June 1975. The author is unknown. The first page gives an alphabetical list of mints in the left column, a description of the coin-type and/or name of the moneyer sometimes with additional notes in the middle column, and the relevant reference in the right column. There are several manuscript additions, annotations, corrections and queries on this page. The second page has notes, deletions and added types. There are two copies of this item.
(b) 'Corrections to charts of mints, types & moneyers' names (from V. Smart in A-S England, 1975), manuscript (copy), single page, unattributed and undated, but with the 1975 reference, which provides the terminus post quem, giving page numbers and the respective addition or correction. Author unknown.
(c) two excerpts from a longer, evidently monograph-length typescript (copies), unattributed and undated. The first excerpt, consisting in numbered pages 305-306, has one page headed 'Appendices 1 and 2', with a key to the symbols used, and the other headed 'Additions from Private Collections', giving several abbreviations. One of these notes indicates that the initials H.H.K., which almost certainly stand for Horace Herbert King, refer to the "author's collection". This strongly suggests that Horace Herbert King is the author while further supporting the dating to about 1975, since Horace Herbert King died in 1976. The second excerpt, which consists in numbered pages 487-550, has the first page headed 'Appendix 2a. Chronological order of coin-types for each moneyer for each mint', with a brief explanation about the use of the ensuing list. The listing itself covers the remaining pages (488-550) and gives the names of moneyers attested for each mint with the examples on which their signature appears, indicated by type using symbols to denote the disposition of the respective specimen or corpus in which it is catalogued.

Three Psalm-Preludes (Second Set) for the Organ, No. I. By Herbert Howells.
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Three Psalm-Preludes (Second Set) for the Organ, No. 3. By Herbert Howells.
Published by Novello & Co. Ltd., London.

Three Psalm-Preludes (Second Set) for the Organ, No. 2. By Herbert Howells.
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Three Psalm-Preludes for the Organ. Op. 32, No. 2. By Herbert Howells.
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Three Preludes (Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes) for the organ. By Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Published by Stainer & Bell, Ltd., London.

Contents:

• I. Bryn Calfaria
• II. Rhosymedre
• III. Hyfrydol

Three Preludes and Fugues for Organ, Op. 37. By Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Edited by Ivor Atkins.
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Three letters from Ian Stewart to Terence Volk, the first with an attachment:
(a) carbon copy, in typescript, single page, dated 11 June 1979, expressing regret that he was unable to attend TV's party on Saturday due to a death in his family. He notes that he had "a useful session with Christopher Brooke" and expresses the hope that they will be able to resume progress on the volume [i.e. the Philip Grierson Festschrift]. The attachment consists in TV's invitation card, undated, but referring to a gathering in the Syndicate Room of Grove Lodge [Fitzwilliam Museum] on 9 June.
(b) carbon copy, in typescript, single page, dated 6 August 1979, as cover for copies of letters written to Bernareggi, Lafaurie and Sucholdolski, noting that he has not yet received replies. He says that he will soon be in [to the Fitzwilliam Museum] to tidy up the Dolley contribution [to the Philip Grierson Festschrift]. He also mentions that, according to Christopher Brooke, TV may be unclear about which of Philip's coins were needed to illustrate his paper and suggests discussing the matter. He concludes by expressing his pleasure to learn that progress is being made on the volume [i.e. the Philip Grierson Festschrift].
(c) carbon copy, in typescript, single page, dated 27 September 1979, as cover for copies of recent correspondence with Dr Lafaurie and Professor Bernareggi, adding that he will put their texts into final form send send copies. He also asks that TV note what each of them says about illustrations.

Three letters asking for admission of women to Storey's Almshouse. Two deal with the 'Eccles story' about a Mrs Wallis in Eccles, a bankrupt widow. One to do with a Mrs Marsh, who knew of the Eccles case. All from the same Mr Frere.

Three letters from W. J. W. Potter:
(a) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 17 January 1967, suggesting that Miss [Marion] Archibald's paper be reinstated and expressing interest in the details of a hoard of Edward IV nobles. WJWP refers back to a die-link that IS discovered – as discussed in an earlier letter of WJWP – and which coin takes chronological precedence in the chain.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 12 February 1967, which deals with the position of cinquefoil sovereign in the series and question about its authenticity.
(c) manuscript, single page, dated 26 October 1967, thanking IS for his note on the Richard II half-groat and adding that the only other [coin of this type?] to come to light was reported by Frank Purvey just a few weeks earlier. The obverse of that coin was II/2 while the reverse was a previously unkown type III.

Three letters from W. J. W. Potter:
(a) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 7 January 1966, in response to queries of IS regarding the earlier work of WJWP with Edgar J. Winstanley on the coinage of Henry VII. The specific points that WJWP addresses concern "compound mark groats", the dies of the "rose groats" and "type II groats". There is some discussion of die output and more lengthy consideration of die linkage involving modification of the die between the strikes represented in two coins.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 9 January 1966, following up on the earlier letter of 7 January and explaining the rationale for the order of the mint-marks "between cross fitchy and cinquefoil" is provided "by the change in the crown and by the succession of die-links". The lettering of the sovereigns, he continues, is identical to that of the groats with the same marks.
(c) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso) dated 10 April 1966, congratulating IS on his "excellent article in the [Numismatic] Chronicle" and further discussing the question of die output.

Three letters from Stewart Lyon with one attachment (set of notes):
(a) letter from Stewart Lyon, manuscript, two pages on one A5 folio (recto & verso), dated 21 December 1981, thanking IS for the Bossall paper and promising to comment upon it, but agreeing in general that the "there's no way the Regnald coinage could be put back as far as 914". He also informs IS that his "godson has just won himself an exhibition" to read Anglo-Saxon, Celtic & Norse studies at Trinity under Simon Keynes, while "Catherine's choral exhibition to Trinity has been confirmed, too", perhaps making them "one of the first boy/girl sets of twins that Trinity has ever had"!
(b) letter from Stewart Lyon, manuscript, single page, dated 28 December 1981, stating that he had heard about the difficulties that IS and CEB were having with Michael Metcalf over the Bossall paper, though MM had not consulted him. He explains that his comments on the Bossall paper are in three parts: (i) on the St Peter coins without the sword but without reference to any literature, evidently written prior to receiving the Bossall paper; (ii) on the sword coins, written after receiving the paper; (iii) giving "a fairly broad critique of that paper". He hope that his comments will be useful, despite his suggestion of significant changes. In the upper left corner, in square brackets, is a note to indicate that "Copy sent to CEB".
(c) attachment to the preceding (extensive set of notes from Stewart Lyon), manuscript, seventeen pages on seventeen folios (recto only), dated 5-28 December 1981, in three parts: (i) "Impressions of the St Peter coinage, part I", (ii) "Impressions of the St Peter coinage, part II", and (iii) "Comments on the paper by Blunt and Stewart on Regnald and Bossall". Only the third part specifically addresses the contents of the draft paper. Comment no. 21 on § 1-2 of the draft paper deals with matters "not of major importance". Comment no. 22 deals with the authors' undue emphasis on "an untidy alliance between Smyth and Dolley" in § 3. Comment nos. 23-24 states that the paper lacks balance in not taking adequate account of an 1973 paper by Dolley and Moore in the BNJ. Comment nos. 25-27 are more editorial in nature, noting points or references that need to be added. Comment no. 28 offers a summing up, stating that most of the views expressed in the paper are perfectly acceptable but feels that "it pays too little attention to Dolley & Moore (1973)" while needlessly devoting energy to demolishing Smyth's historical arguments. "If the middle of the paper were redrafted along [the] lines" that he suggests, concludes Stewart Lyon, "could Metcalf (or Dolley or smyth) really sustain objections to it?" In a postscript, Stewart Lyon wonders what to make of SCBI Edinburgh 71.
(d) letter from Stewart Lyon, manuscript, single page, dated 2 January 1982, noting that "a triangle in exergue could have been inspired by the reverse of the Edw. Elder or Plegmund 'Rose' type – though one might have expected another triangle at the top if this were the case". There are three postscripts: (PS) on the dropping of most academic content by Spink's Numismatic Circular; (PPS) thanking IS for the interesting Finland offprint and making reference to "two others in return"; (PPPS) dated 5 January, noting that a copy of a letter from CEB (i.e. Christopher Blunt) is enclosed. For this, see JCPP/Stewartby/1/3/BLUNTC – LYON/1981/1

Three letters from Simon Jervis:
(a) letter from Simon Jervis, typescript, single page, dated 28 June 1991, first congratulating IS on his knighthood but mainly providing cover for a copy of a submission that the Fitzwilliam Museum is making to the Newton Trust to support a three-year research assistantship in the Department of Coins & Medals to work on the Blunt collection. SJ explains that he has given Ian Stewart's name as referee in the submission, which needed to be prepared in haste. He also attaches a copy of his submission letter to Dr Anis Neal, Director of Newton Trust (JCPP/Stewartby/1/3/JERVIS – SEAL/1991/1).
(b) copy of the reply of Ian Stewart to the above, in typescript, single page, dated 8 July 1991, thanking SJ for his letter of 28 June and expressing his willingness to respond favourably when asked for a reference.
(c) letter from Simon Jervis, typescript, single page, dated 8 July 1991, informing IS that, as a result of conversations with the Director of Newton Trust (Dr Anil Seal), the Museum has expanded the application to include four years in total, three for the research assistant and a further year for a library cataloguer. He states that IS should send his reference directly to the Director of the Newton Trust as soon as possible.
(d) letter from Simon Jervis, typescript, single page, dated 25 July 1991, informing IS that the Newton Trust has agreed the Museum's proposal in full, which will put "the Department on a more secure footing under its new Keeper".

Three letters from Robin Eaglen, in manuscript, the first two with attachments. In the first, dated 2 September 1991 (a), RE writes about his work on classifying coins of Henry III, type VIIIb, from the Bury St Edmunds mint in the Naxos hoard; the attachment, in manuscript, lists examples of type VIIIb1, VIIIb2 and VIIIb3 coins from the hoard mainly in the collections of RE, Jeffrey North and Ian Stewart. In the second letter, dated 5 December 1991 (b), RE notes that he is uncertain about his association of one of the type VIIIb1 coins with the IS collection, as his card file for the coin carries the note "BHIH Stewart coll?"; a photocopy of the card, with poor images of the coin, is attached. The third letter, dated 10 December 1991 (c), originally provided cover for an enclosure, no longer attached, on which RE solicits comments or criticisms.

Three letters from Pierre Mounier and one attachment:
(a) letter, typescript, two pages on two folios, dated from Paris on 29 February 1972, explaining that Professor Grierson has been asked to collaborate in a work entitled "Initiation a la numismatique" but is unable to do so due to other obligations. PG suggested that IS be considered in his place, emphasising his expertise in numismatics. Mounier thus asks to IS to write on British coinage during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Modern period, and the contemporary period, and on British colonial coinages and the coinage of the United States over the course of the latter two periods. He explains that the book will be published by Maison BORDAS in the series "BORDAS-DECOUVERTES" and will consist in some 700 pages and will be richly illustrated. Remuneration will be at the rate of 60 francs per 1600 characters. The manuscripts will be due by 15 October 1972. The publishing house expects the first printing of the French edition to consist in 25,000 copies.
(b) letter, typescript, two pages on two folios, dated from Paris on 17 March 1972, acknowledging IS's letter of 10 March and setting out his remit in greater detail but allowing for modification as necessary. The entire manuscript should amount to 45-50 pages, with bibliographic references at the end of the text. The are marginal manuscript annotations in the left margin of the first page in which IS indicates the number of pages and illustrations for each of the five sections.
(c) letter, typescript, single page, dated from Paris on 18 April 1972, acknowledging IS's letter of 4 April 1972 and that IS will deliver his texts in English, which will then be translated into French. Mounier agrees that in IS's suggestion for page length but says that the number of illustrations that he wishes to include is a little greater than anticipated. There are marginal manuscript annotations in the bottom margin in which IS indicates that he sent the US section on 26 May 1972 and the English Medieval section on 8 July 1972.
(d) attachment, photocopy of typescript, four pages on four folios, undated, providing chapter outline of the book entitles "Initiation a la numismatique", listing the chapters and identifying the authors of those thus far commissioned. The attachment is not referred to in any of the correspondence.
(e) note, manuscript (in the hand of Philip Grierson), single page, undated.

Three letters from Pierre Mounier and attachments:
(a) letter, typescript, single page, dated from Paris on 22 September 1972, acknowledging receipt of the chapter on British coinage from 1500 to 1815 and noting that he is awaiting the chapter on the money from 1815 onwards as well as the list of illustrations (see below, attachments). He states that the US chapter has now undergone translation. He thanks IS for recommending Howard Linecar as collaborator in the project. There is a marginal manuscript annotation to the effect that IS sent the chapter from 1815 on 23 October 1972 along with a list of illustrations and requests to receive payment in parts on either side of April 1973 and to maintain the English copyright of his contributions.
(b) letter, typescript, two pages on two folios, dated from Paris on 19 October 1972, expressing gratitude for the participant's collaboration and announcing plans for contributors to "Initiation a la Numismatique" to gather together to exchange views, discuss various problems of composition or adaptation, and enable contributors to establish relations. The gathering was scheduled to take place on 14 November 1972 at the Club Française des Médaille, l'Hotêl des Monnaies, 11 quai de Conti, Paris VI, 3rd floor.
(c) letter, typescript, single page, dated from Paris on 8 November 1972, announcing that, due to public transport strikes during the week 13-18 November, it has become necessary to postpone the planned gathering of contributors for one week, thus rescheduling it for 21 November.
(d) attachment one (1), list of illustrations to accompany IS's contributions, manuscript, on three pages of small unused lined paper (recto only), undated, listing English Medieval (incl. Ireland & Scotland), 20 coins; and Modern English, 18 coins. There is a heading for Contemporary English but the list is blank; there is no reference to the United States but there is a separate list, apparently related, in manuscript, single page on small unused white lined paper, describing the same US coins that are listed in attachment two (2).
(e) attachment two (2), list of illustrations to accompany IS's contributions, manuscript, on four pages of larger reused lined paper, listing English Medieval (incl. Ireland & Scotland), 20 coins; British Isles 1500-1815, 18 coins; British Isles since 1815, 20 coins; and United States, 18 coins.

Three letters from Philip Grierson, all typescript and single page:
(a) dated 28 April 1964, advising that the coin of IS "is probably an unknown piece of Arnold of Orey, lord of Rummen (near Limburg in the Netherlands), 1331-1364". PG states that he "might do site finds" [for a forthcoming lecture?] but worries about appearing "to be picking on Michael Metcalf". There are also references to an "electrical opinion" that IS has asked about, arrangements for IS's forthcoming visit and the fact that Mrs Webb [College typist] is resigning.
(b) dated 25 June 1964, saying that Johnson has sent prints of the relevant accounts and mentions references to dies in them. He also says that he talked "to Graham Pyatt about his die formula" and that "he [i.e. Graham Pyatt] will try to interest a candidate for a diploma in working it out". PG suggests that IS "might find it worth getting in touch with him and explaining the range of figures required". He concludes by giving his US address in Washington. In addition, there is a manuscript indicating the someone's totals require attention.
(c) dated 18 September 1964, beginning with a few words about his recent and imminent movements and hoping that IS had a pleasant trip in the Mediterranean. There are short paragraphs on die-output and possible venues for publication of the Oreye coin, a very brief comment on a "Mamluq book", and a note about arrangements for forthcoming meeting with IS.

Three letters from Peter Seaby, the second with an attachment:
(a) in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), date 16 June 1990, thanking IS for his letter and St Peter paper. He mentions the practical difficulties posed in reproducing the inscriptions but is working on a system to set the type by computer as camera-ready copy to reduce production costs. He says that one of their contributors is unable to submit before mid-August, which pushes back the deadline. He also considers "the question of the two 'modern forgeries' that cam through Seaby's". He remembers that Seaby's purchased a little group of five or six St Peter coins some 15-20 years earlier, possibly about 1970. He says that "they came from York [...] wrapped in an old scrap of newspaper (1939-1945 vintage?) stuffed into a Bryant & Mays matchbox". They should have been given to CEB for proper recording, he continues, but he thinks that "PFP [Frank Purvey?] was keen to make a quick sale". One or more of them might have been illustrated in SCMB. He says that he wondered at the time whether the coins "could be a stray batch from the Walingate hoard" [?]. He concludes with a note that will get in touch with Frank to see if he recall anything further but is inclined to think that non were forgeries.
(b) in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), date 24 July 1990, following up on the previous letter, saying that Frank replied to his query about the St Peter pennies that Seaby's purchased in 1970. There were six coins, he said, in a matchbox or cigarette tin, wrapped in a pre-war newspaper cutting; the original owner said that his grandfather had found the coins or that the coins had been found among his grandfather's effects, but he could not recall which. He does remember photographing all six of the coins for someone, if not for CEB then possibly Marion [Archibald] or E. J. Harris. Going through the plates of the Bulletin for the years 1970-1977, he has reconstructed the group. The attachment consists in a manuscript list of the coins with transcriptions of the legends and SCMB references.
(c) in manuscript, one page, date 7 September 1990, saying that he has heard from Eric Harris and is enclosing his letter and the three photos that he sent, though neither the letter nor the photos are now associated with the letter from PJS. He further says that Frank Purvey must have made his photos for someone else but supposes that two of EJH's coins might have come from the 1970 group.

Three letters from Michael Metcalf:
(a) manuscript, single sheet (recto & verso), dated 21 March 1974, acknowledging receipt of the Henry VII typescript and confessing that the "early" chronology proposed by IS, in the light of the Durham evidence and hoard statistics, is the most convincing. MM states that he has drawn up a memo that summarises the arguments for the "early" chronology of IS and the arguments against the one that he used in his typescript. There is a further note, in MM's hand, that he has written to Dr Challis to ask for final suggestions; there are also annotations in IS's hand.
(b) manuscript, single page, dated 25 March 1974, explaining that it may be possible to reconcile Alexander of Bruchsal's appointment [as engraver?] in 1494 with the appearance of characteristics associated with him already in 1493 if he had begun to work in the mint some eighteen months before his appointment as principal. The page is abundantly annotated in IS's hand.
(c) manuscript, single sheet (recto & verso), dated 29 April 1974, thanking IS for the letter and Henry VII annotations. MM says that he has revised the typescript to take account of his points and those of Christopher Challis, discovered a Spanish prototype for the sovereign and worked in the clarification of the "sovereign" pence together with its implications. He is sending the typescript to Christopher Blunt once he receives final clearance from Challis.

Three letters concerning Martin Allen's collaboration with Lord Stewartby on 'Iohan: a short cross class IV moneyer of Norwich', NCirc, vol. 100 (1992), pp. 343-344. The first letter (a), of June 29th, proposes the collaboration and refers to John Brand's characterisation of a coin identified as FEJ 1794 (i.e. presumably from the collection of F. Elmore Jones); it also refers to an enclosed "letter and coin lists from Chris Wren", but the said letter and lists are not attached. The third letter (c), dated August 14th, refers to coins that could be used to illustrate the article and expresses a wish to send the completed draft to Jeffrey Mass and Peter Woodhead for comments. The three letters were originally grouped together in reverse chronological order by paper clip with the set of photographs on top.

Series of three letters, each with one set of coin photos attached, mainly concerning short cross coins of [moneyers] Ilger and Walter. The second letter of December 18th (b) actually refers to two sets of coin photos, one of a coin from the ANS collection (NYC) and one from the collection of Jeffrey Mass, one of which presumably being the one that was originally attached to the first letter of December 1st (a).

Three letters from Martin Allen:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 26 May 1989, thanking IS for sending photocopies from P.R. 7 John and acknowledging that he "had not noticed the unfortunate discrepancy between the references to the Oxford exchange". He says that he asked Stewart Lyon about his use of statistics, which "has prompted him to write his own article" on die-output. MRA promises to send a revised paper as soon as he incorporates the results of Stewart Lyon's work. He concludes with a question about photographing Ian Stewart's short-cross coins.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 9 June 1989, thanking IS for his letter of 5 June and expressing interest in seeing the revised version of Ian Stewart's class V paper. He says that Stewart Lyon's paper will soon be ready and hopes that all three papers will be published together. He further notes that his work has already produced interesting statistics and that "It will soon be possible to suggest reasonably credible estimates of the numbers of dies used to produce each of the first five short cross classes".
(c) typescript, single page, dated 5 July 1989, saying that he is impressed by Ian Stewart's revised recoinage paper and is "enclosing a few very minor possible amendments". He further notes Stewart Lyon's suggestion that he pass along a copy of his paper, which he encloses, and asks whether he should speak to editors about publishing all three papers together. In conclusion, he mentions that he would be very interested to see Ian Stewart's coins from classes II-IV and wonders about the possibility of seeing the rest of IS's short-cross material. There are three attachments all associated with this letter:
(i) Martin Allen's comments on Ian Stewart's paper, in typescript, with Incipit = General ...
(ii) further comments. in typescript, covering some of the same points.
(iii) excerpt from Ian Stewart's paper, one paragraph, with annotations and corrections.

Three letters from MA mainly on the classification of the coins of Henry I.

Three letters from Konstantin Golenko concerning the exchange of numismatic literature. In the first letter, dated 21 July 1962, in Russian Cyrillic typescript, KG acknowledges receipt of IS's letter and states that he is happy to fulfill the request of IS, sending him and his colleagues at Oxford copies of his article from [the journal?] Viz. Vremennik, [vol.] XVI. He further suggests that obtaining a copy of a book by Retovsky will be more complicated but says that he will search for a second-hand copy. The letter is roughly annotated with partial translations. In the second letter, dated 7 June 1968 (b), in English manuscript, KG thanks IS for his letter and states that he is sending the book in which IS is interested. KG also promises to send a book of Dr Potin on coin finds in Russia and asks for several titles on Ancient coinage as well as issues of Museum Notes. In the third letter, dated 23 August 1968 (c), in English typescript with the stamped envelope in which was delivered attached, KG thanks IS for his letter and mentions the receipt of a letter from Mr [George Carpenter] Miles, which notes, in accordance with the wishes of Mr [Philip] Grierson, that eight numbers of Museum Notes had been sent to him. KG further states that he is writing contemporaneously to Mr Grierson and Mr Miles.

Four letters from Jeffrey North, all in manuscript, one folio each (recto & verso):
(a) dated 20 July 1987, as cover for a copy of his proposed classification for short-cross classes VIIb and VIIc (no longer attached to the letter), with some explanatory comments and a request for IS's "candid opinion".
(b) dated 12 August 1987, following up on a comment of IS that short-cross class VIIa could be further subdivided with "a tentative classification", which forms the attachment entitled "Subdivision of Class 7a"; the letter includes some explanatory comments about the attachment.
(c) dated 2 October 1987, thanking IS for his card and acknowledging that he has collected the coins that IS left for him at Baldwin's to facilitate his study. There is also discussion about "the manner of designating the varieties".

Three letters from Jeffrey North, all in typescript, single page:
(a) dated 26 June 1996, discussing the epigraphy on pre-1351 gold coins, which "appear to have lettering much smaller than that on the silver", with reference to further distinguishing particulars. JJN mentions two enclosures, photocopies of his forthcoming BNJ note on the new Reading halfpenny and one of his NCirc notes on the new penny "to save you digging out the original". Neither is attached.
(b) dated 23 August 1996, thanking IS for his card and then discussing the unsatisfactory arrangement of [the Durham class] 6-7-8, particularly with respect to Durham class "4".
(c) dated 7 January 1997, covering enclosures of a draft paper on the Irish coins of Edward I-III and a note about Berwich [sic] class 6 (neither of which is attached). He asks for IS to recommend a suitable outlet for the former, since the BNJ is ruled out and NCirc is too ephemeral, and solicits IS to make any amendments necessary to make the latter suitable for publication.

Three letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt with three attachments:
(a) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 28 August 1980, recommending minor changes to three paragraphs of "admirable" piece and suggesting that only the first one is of any significance. He advises "not to use wording that implies there were no pennies before Offa when the Hongham [?] coins are likely to have been struck". He refers to an enclosure described as "Post-Brunanburh" and says that he heard from Elizabeth Pirie news about the St Peter die from Coppergate.
(b) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), on House of Commons letterhead, dated 26 November 1980, returning CEB's two-page draft of "Proposed order of Norse coins 939-954 in the BM Sylloge (2 plates)" (see item (c) below) with his own proposed arrangement (see item (d) below). He agrees that BMA 319 belongs "under Edgar irregular" and encloses "a few notes on B-F-V equivalents" (see item (e) below).
(c) draft manuscript, two pages on two folios of recycled paper (recto only), entitled "Proposed order of Norse coins 939-954 in the BM Sylloge (2 plates)", unattributed and undated but unmistakably in CEB's hand.
(d) draft manuscript, single page of lined paper, with the heading "This was my provisional order for mini-corpus", unattributed and undated but in IS's hand.
(e) draft manuscript (photocopy?), single page, untitled, unattributed and undated, but in IS's hand, concerning the names of certain moneyers on Viking coins and the interchangeability of the B-F-V.
(f) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 12 December 1980, enclosing CEB's text plus two copies, having sent others to Marion [Archibald] and Stewart [Lyon]. He suggests that completion of the book is "now in sight" and notes that his task is to redo the section on the later Vikings. He informs CEB that he has acquired "the BMC Ie by Heremod", which he regards as regular, and an HR2 Odelriht.

Three letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 3 June 1964, enclosing the remounted London and Wulfred plates for their article and explaining the manner in which the coins are numbers in the plates. He is returning CEB's Eretcod cast, "since the BM specimen has produced a tolerably good cast"; he prefers to use the BM coin is it is one that he refers to in his text and has never before been illustrated. He notes that his Warwick Group notes turned up in the Balliol boathouse.
(b) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 19 September 1964, submitting an article for the next BNJ but making no reference to a title, stating that it's all he has to offer in the absence of collaborations [in preparation] with [William] Seaby and [RBK] Stevenson. He notes the illustration requirements and asks CEB to fill in two small points in the footnotes, giving the BMC types of the Henry I coins that match Snelling's nos. 19 & 20, presumably VIII or XII, and the lot number for Drabble's Willem-on-Card.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 6 December 1964, submitting his joint article on the Balleny hoard of Scottish hoard of Scottish groats [with William (Bill) Seaby] and apologising for its messy aspect. He thanks CEB for the hospitality that he recently showed to the Warwick Group and, in a postscript, asks CEB whether he owns a styca of Eanred, moneyer Wintred, transcribing the legend (which is runic or has runic elements); he notes that his collection has two such specimens from the same die and wishes to find a good home for one of them.

Three letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on 8 March 1969, expressing satisfaction with the latest volume of the [British Numismatic] Journal, especially [Herbert] Schneider's contribution. He asks CEB to convey his apologies to the Sylloge Committee in the event that he is unable to attend the forthcoming meeting. He also comments on the new Colchester hoard and the Mayfield hoard, hoping that MMA [i.e. Marion Archibald] "will publish some of the wonderful hoards in her care". There is a note in the upper right margin of the recto, in CEB's hand, to the effect he answered the letter on 11 March, but there is no CEB letter of that date among the Stewartby papers.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on 12 October 1969, advising that his plans are subject to the demands of his mother's illness, which is very serious. He also says that he will be unable to accept CEB's dinner invitation on the following evening but may be able to join them in time for coffee at about 9pm. In reply to a letter of CEB, he says that he would prefer not to review the RS [i.e. Robert Sevenson] sylloge because he declined to review it for the Numismatic Chronicle, he is not very familiar with the volume and is anxious about taking on any additional work under the present circumstances. He says that his short-cross paper must also be put on hold due to "domestic troubles" His only contribution to the current BNJ with therefore be his part of the Loch Doon paper.
(c) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on 8 November 1969, expressing satisfaction that CEB finds the BNS programme agreeable. He says that they cannot visit Ramsbury on the dates that CEB suggests but would be happy to accept an invitation for after Christmas. He also confesses that he is awaiting a paper of MD [i.e. Michael Dolley] "with some misgivings", adding that "he really does seem badly off balance now". He describes the BA [i.e. Brititsh Academy] row as "lamentable". In closing, he asks CEB whether he ever managed to obtain offprints of Reddaway's last paper.

Three letters from Hugh Pagan, all manuscript:
(a) one folio (recto & verso), dated 1 November 1964, thanking IS for the fragment, which makes the 15th obverse die for the moneyer Cenkd [?] in BMC type A. HEP also explains his distinction between the two main "die-schools".
(b) one folio (recto & verso), dated 23 February 1967, providing details of a hoard of silver coins found in County Durham on 30 January 1756, as recorded in two somewhat contrasting accounts in Sykes, Local Records of Northumberland, as IS did not list the hoard in his BNJ publication of 1966.
(c) single page (recto only), dated 18 March 1969, to serve as cover for "the second part of a huge paper on the Rashleigh collection, the first part of which will establish once and for all the composition of the Trewhiddle find".

Three letters from Hugh Pagan:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 15 January 2012, informing IS of his plans to resume working on "the coins of the 'southern two-line type' [...] struck during the reigns of Eadmund, Eadred, Eadwig and Eadgar". For this, he asks IS if he would allow him to borrow the cards for the relevant coins from CEB's card file.
(b) typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 30 January 2012, thanking IS for permission to borrow CEB's index cards, which he will be to retrieve from Baldwin's in March. There follow suggestions on how best to dispose of CEB's volumes of NC and an "ex-General Fox set of auction catalogues", the latter of which could be worth as much as £25,000 and not less than £20,000. He says that the Fitzwilliam [Museum] may be have an interest in the catalogues but in addition to budgetary constraints, there will be a problem with duplication and in any case "with Mark [Blackburn]'s death the moment for a transaction of this nature may have passed" but it may be worth pursuing once the new keeper is in place. Another possibility would be the Berlin Coin Cabinet, which the Fox collection of Greek coins.
(c) typescript, single page, dated 26 September 2012, noting that he has only just become of a volume of the Correspondence of Dr William Hunter, 1740-1783, which contains a long letter of October 1770 from his brother-in-law, Rev. James Baillie, saying that he is sending him 57 coins, "evidently predominantly Scots". HEP reproduces an excerpt from the letter showing that the "Roberts and Davids" were found last Spring five miles above Hamilton up the Clyde in a small earthen pot with "a great many small coins of Edward III of England" and that "the two gold coins [...] were found this Summer in a small earthen pot in a kail yard at Biggar" in the south of the County. HEP supposes that Hunter obtained a parcel from the Brownlee hoard.

Three letters of Herbert Schneider:
(a) typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated from London on 26 May 1961, underscoring the difficulties in determining die output for gold coins. Although it is possible to come up with a rough idea of the number of dies, and documents sometimes provide reliable figures for the amount of bullion processed into coin, there is typically no indication of the different proportions accorded to different denominations. In addition, after a king's death, serviceable dies were often decommissioned, which potentially distorted the figures, especially if the issue were small. HS guesses that an angel coin-die would have produced 6000-8000 coins in the fifteenth century and perhaps 10,000 under Charles I, but fears that there is insufficient documentary basis for anything more than very approximate estimates.
(b) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), dated [from Luxembourg?] on 7 June 1961, agreeing that the reign of Richard III is an appropriate one for research on die output because the angel coinage was not too large and the coins rare enough that they are typically illustrated in auction catalogues, because the half-angel coinage was negligible and because the reign was long enough to offset the potentially distorting impact of factors such as accidental breakage. He notes that the forthcoming publication of Winstanley and Potter on the coinage of Henry VII is likely to be suggestive and recommended getting in touch with Potter. About the discarding of dies at the end of reigns, HS states that "there is no hard and fast rule". Sometimes, he says, "the old dies were clearly scrapped", but on other occasions they remained in use even after the coronation of the new king until new ones could be brought into service. In closing, he mentions the possibility of dining with IS and confesses that he is "rather anxious" to ask him about "Mater Briot's activities in Scotland".
(c) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Zug on 19 August 1961, writing that information from [H. G.] Stride indicates that there are "no records at the Mint which would allow us to establish even a vague figure of the number of angel dies used during the reign of Charles", but Stride did note that a pair of dies for a gold coin of angel size would have normally produced only 2000-2500 coins in that period. HS reports that he has completed his record of angel dies during the time of Charles I, finding 22/23 obverse and 21 reverse, but finding it odd that there should be as many obverse dies as reverse.

Three letters of Herbert Schneider:
(a) typescript, three pages on two folios, dated from Antwerp on 11 April 1962, recounting the theft of thirty-three of his coins that he had left at Spink's for a V&A exhibition. He takes a little comfort in the fact that the coins were generally selected for their beauty and condition rather than rarity, with the result that only three must be regarded as irreplaceable. It would be easier to bear, he says, if he were assured that the coins survived and were not simply consigned to the melting pot. He mentions an enclosure of "the relevant passage" on the Briot angel from his paper on the angels of Charles I, but the enclosure is not longer attached. He acknowledges an error in his letter of 18 December, noting that the figure of 285,000 coins as impossible for output from an obverse die and correcting it to 25,000. He mentions another enclosure of a copy of a recent letter from Potter [see JCPP/Stewartby/1/3/POTTER-SCHNEIDER/1962/1], and discusses the views of Potter in regard to die output for sovereigns. He concludes by asking whether anyone has ever checked the references of Ethel Stokes ["Tables of bullion coined from 1377 to 1550", NC, vol. 9, no. 33 (1929), pp. 27-69?], simply because so many scholars use them as if they were gospel.
(b) typescript, four full pages on two folios (recto & verso), dated from Luxembourg on 27 April 1962, thanking IS for letter of Good Friday and responding to the points raised in the letter following the publication of the first part of his paper on the Tower Gold of Charles I. There are detailed comments focused mainly on Briot about (i) pattern, concerning the definition of what constitutes a pattern coin; (ii) lyk impression, describing "the obverse of the ordinary Tower angels of Charles I" as "a logical continuation of the group III angels of Henry VII"; (iii) Balfour's remark [that angels were struck to meet the king's need for "touch-pieces"], to which Stevenson assigned a numismatic significance where there was none; (iv) time factor, about the amount of time it would have taken Briot to prepare new punches and dies upon his arrival in Edinburgh; (v) lettering, considering whether Briot included the letter punches for his private mill coinage of 1631/1633 among the tools that were sent to Edinburgh; and (vi) striking, on the quality of the striking on some of Briot's Scottish coins. HS questions Stevenson's attribution of Briot's angel to Scotland, outlines the reasons for his doubts and says that the matter should be left open. In a PS, he asks IS not to mention to Potter that he has written him a four-page letter, since he already owes Potter three.
(c) typescript, three pages on two folios, dated from Antwerp on 24 May 1962, acknowledging that Philip Grierson had written to him about the Continental prototype for Henry Tudor's earliest sovereign. Since his own views about privy marks on the sovereign coinage of Henry VII are diametrically opposed to orthodox views, he expected "a major rocket from Cambridge" but was instead gratified to learn that PG had arrived at much the same conclusions. HS says that Blunt has told him about the Winstanpotterly paper on Henry Tudor's coinage now being ready and wonders how they dealt with the sovereigns. He then returns to the subject of Briot's angel, stressing that the question of whether it was struck in the Tower or in Scotland should be left open. He nevertheless wonders whether Briot might have taken his existing London dies with him to Edinburgh and used them to produce angels at short notice for the touching ceremony. The letter concludes with a discussion of Potter.

Three letters from Gay van der Meer:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 14 January 1965, returning to IS his paper entitled "A Scottish halfgroat of Arnold of Oreye" and telling him that it really ought to go in the Revue belge de numismatique rather than the Jaarboek, since Rummen lies within the confines of modern-day Belgium and the article may not receive the attention it deserves in a Dutch periodical. There is a manuscript note at the bottom, in IS's hand [?], with the contact details of Jacqueline Lallemand, Cabinet des Médailles, Bruxelles.
(b) typescript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 28 October 1970, thanking IS for the Exeter catalogue and providing a few additions, which she describes as "not very essential". These include a reference to Edgar's moneyer Æthelnoth in a hoard list in the archives of the SHM [?], a true crux type coin of Æthelraed's moneyer Ælfric in the Stockholm hoard, and a few others. She says that she has not had the opportunity to respond to IS's letter of 3 August due to staff shortages. She also mentions difficulties experienced by a numismatist from the Coin Cabinet of Brno (Czechoslovakia), who was meant to present a lecture in West Germany but was refused entry and is not presenting it in The Hague.
(c) typescript, two full pages on two folios (recto only), dated 3 October 1975, acknowledging receipt of IS's letter and typescript paper, and noting that the sequence of Anglo-Saxon coin types "seems to be definitively established", but most of the letter is turned over to commenting on the typescript and responding to specific questions relating to the typescript in IS's letter. In the paper, she notes that IS makes "no reference to Petersson's variant nomenclature" and draws attention to an unpublished halfpenny that support IS's suggestion that "the jewel cross type in Cnut's name was probably struck during Harthacnut's joint rule with Harold I". In response to queries in the letter, she acknowledges the difficulty in judging from an illustration in the BNJ, vol. 15, p. 4, "whether the Harold coin of Cnut's short cross type is genuine or not". She explains that she described Harthacnut type Ha as "non-English" because the London specimens seem Scandinavian, but she allows that the Norwich specimen, which several authors have judged to be genuine, looks English. She notes coins of this type with problematic legends in Berlin and Stockholm. She also asks whether anyone has "checked the reverses of Hild. Harold 617-19 with Harthacnut 116 of type H and raises questions about the association of an old Harthacnut obverse with the reverse of Harold's last type. She supposes that Harold type Da coins are mules and asks whether there is "any reason why Cnut Ha and Hb should not be English. Finally, she fears that she will never have the time to develop the material that she collected on Sudbury/Southwark into an article.

Three letters from Edgar Winstanley:
(a) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 25 January 1967, commenting on a paper of IS that presented both sides of the argument [on the coinage of Henry VII?] but ultimately came down on neither. He mentions "Blunt's bombshell" about forgeries in the Hunterian collection and how it "brings the genuineness of the sovereign groat into question". EJW then offers to assist in following this up by calculating the number of obverse dies among his coins and those at the BM.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 21 February 1967, acknowledging receipt of IS's letter and typescript [about the coinage of Richard III?]. He returns to the subject of the Hunterian coins, mentioning that Blunt and Dolley had noted one forgery "diabolically clever". In view of the fact that the Hunterian collection "has been preserved untouched or added to since William Hunter formed it, largely by purchase", he wonders whether other coins such as the portcullis groats in the BM may also come under suspicion.
(c) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 1 March 1967, stating that he has sent IS's typescript and letter to Potter, asking him to return it back to him, and hoping that he can come up with something worthwhile to say about it by then. He says that he is unable to much help in the matter of Richard III dies because he was more concerned with little variations in the legends. The is further discussion of the Hunterian coins in Glasgow and "a forgery of such skillful workmanship" among them, discovered by Blunt and Dolley. Sir William Hunter is thought to have acquired the coins during the decade before his death in 1783, when a very skillful forger was operating. EJW concludes by again raising the question about the authenticity of the portcullis groats of Henry VII in the BM.

Three letters of Christopher Challis regarding his submissions for the BNJ for 1982, the article on 'The anonymous Anglo-Viking issue' and a review; the first, dated (a) 6 September, is in typescript, while the other two, dated (b) 7 December and (c) 22 December are in manuscript.

Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, one with an attachment, and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, single page, dated from Ramsbury on 17 February 1983, writing that he has just learned from MMA [i.e. Marion Archibald] that the alleged [gold] thrymsa in the Spink sale is indeed a forgery. He notes that it had already been submitted to the BM with two sceattas but condemned. Attached (see item (b) below) is a page excised from a numismatic sales catalogue.
(b) attachment to letter from from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart of 17 April 1983 (see item (a) above) consisting in a folio excised from the plates of a numismatic sales catalogue, undated and unidentified but presumably closing soon after the date of the latter to which it is attached, possibly Spink (UK) auction 27, 16 March 1983. The piece in question appears to be lot 193.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 13 March 1983, thanking CEB for allowing him to borrow his Offa card index and wondering whether he ever thought to publish a list of specimens "like the one for Coenwulf" that they did for their joint work [with Stewart Lyon] in the BNJ on Southern England, 796-840. He notes that he has been working on a piece on the London mint under Offa for the MD [i.e. Michael Dolley] festschrift. He further notes that Edward Baldwin photographed his anonymous Viking sword/hammer fragment and reduced the enlargement of the Dunmore specimen, and he encloses a spare print of the latter for CEB's card index. He asks whether there is any more news about the Lough Ennell find and then refers to Michael Dolley's poor state, expressing sympathy for his wife Mary.
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 19 March 1983, informing IS that the Regnald proofs have arrived and noting that he has marked a few points [for correction], listing them below, while complimenting the OUP and [Michael] Metcalf [as editor]. He says that DMM has deleted the reference to Michael Dolley's reply, which leads him to suspect that MD "is near the end of the road as far as any scholarly work is concerned". He relates how MD's wife Mary has said that she cannot take it any longer and that MD will need to go to a home, something that the doctors have said was eventually inevitable. He refers to MD's trip to Dublin to receive his doctorate, which he has undertaken despite being "quite unfit to travel", and notes that Mary and their daughter Mary will be stopping at Ramsbury during Holy Week on their way from London to Teignmouth. CEB thanks IS for his letter about Offa and the photograph and says that he never really thought about publishing a list of the Offa coins but is happy for anyone to use his card index towards that end. He nevertheless states that he would be interested in publishing a corpus of the coins of [king] Berhtnulf [of Mercia].
(e) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 27 March 1983, writing that "we have been thinking of so much this week-end after the sad news of Anthony". He turns to the coins, agreeing that "[Michael] Metcalf and the OUP [...] have made a marvellous job of [their] difficult text" and noting that he is returning [the proofs] with their points marked but wishes to add a footnote at the very end in reference to his paper on the circumscription-sword and Si[h]tric in the BNJ. There are further comments about the clipped down Regnald hand coin, CEB's Heriger note and the Eadred in "Martin's latest list".
(f) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 4 April 1983, thanking IS for writing about Anthony. He says that he went to the BM for Robert Carson's farewell party and talked with David Wilson about his successor. He learned that DW "had deliberately not sought to fill the post until [John] Kent had had a chance to show his metal", adding that "he clearly has some doubts about him". CEB also says that he will attend Michael Dolley's funeral on Wednesday and explain to MD's wife Mary why IS cannot be there.

Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, one with attachment, and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript (carbon-copy), two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 11 September 1983, thanking IS for the copies of the moneyers' lists and making some comments on them. He says that he very much enjoyed the recent visit of IS's family and notes that Liz Pirie will be visiting him this week. During the visit, he expects to be appraised of her latest thinking on the stycas, but he adds that he knows little about them and therefore hesitates to express an opinion. He understands that she is not happy about the way they have asked her to arrange the material for her sylloge volume.
(b) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 8 October 1983, thanking CEB for the retyped material on the horizontal types and reporting that he now has Stewart Lyon's note on weights. He says that an expanded version would sit nicely as a short chapter on metrology in CTCE [i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England]. He asks CEB whether he has seen the Vecchi catalogue and comments on some of the lots. He expresses his opposition to a copyright fee for Chester and his disappointment at missing the last SCBI committee meeting. He refers to the "sad news about Harry Norweb" and briefly comments on his recent trip to Southeast Asia. There is an annotation in CEB's hand in the upper right margin that reads "Ans 15/10", but there is no letter of that date from CEB among IS's papers.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 19 November 1983, welcoming news about the [British] Academy taking on CTCE [i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England] and expressing relief that Henry [Loyn] approves of the historical chapter, which he says was "dreadfully difficult to write". He comments briefly on the plates and apologises in advance for not being to attend the forthcoming BNS meeting.
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, typescript (carbon-copy), two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 27 November 1983, commenting on the Viking 939-954 chapter [of CTCE, i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England], on a new article in the BNJ by two French scholars who are attributing six Charles the Bald coins of Quentovic in the Boulogne Museum to Cuerdale, and on other matters relating to CTCE.
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 13 December 1983, asking IS to read the BNJ article on the alleged Cuerdale coins, i.e. M. Dhénin and P. Leclercq, 'The coins of Quentovic from the Cuerdale hoard in the Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer', BNJ, vol. 52 (1982), pp. 104-107. CEB wishes to know whether IS shares his doubts and says that he has sent a similar letter to Stewart [Lyon]. If they both agree with him, he proposes to insert a few paragraphs in which he expresses his doubts into his forthcoming BNJ paper on the composition of the Cuerdale hoard and invite comments from the authors.
(f) untitled paper, manuscript (photocopy), three pages on three folios (recto & verso), undated, with the following incipit: "Recently the suggestion has been made that six Carolingian coins form [sic; recto: from] the mint of Quentovic in the Boulogne Museum are from the Cuerdale hoard". There are just over two pages of text plus four brief endnotes. Although unattributed, undated and untitled, the paper forms the latter part of CEB's article on 'The composition of the Cuerdale hoard', BNJ, vol. 53 (1983), pp. 1-6. Because CEB refers explicitly to the additional paragraphs in his letter of 13 December 1983, the draft typescript may be attributed to CEB and dated to before the date of his letter.

Two letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, one with an attachment, and three letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, two with a total of three attachments:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 10 May 1982, commenting briefly on IS's chapter for Philip Grierson's book "The Anglo-Viking Coinages". He also mentions Liz Pirie's styca paper and the mostly unfavourable comments that it has received [from members of the Sylloge committee?], except for Michael Dolley, who has insisted that it must be taken seriously; otherwise, "all seem afraid that publication outside the Sylloge is the proper course".
(b) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 11 May 1982, saying that he enjoyed reading IS's paper and enclosing a few noted (see item (c) below). He assumes that IS has sent a separate copy to CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon] and that he need not do so. In a postscript, which runs from the recto over to the verso, he notes that he is offering the BNJ his paper on Howell Dda [i.e. Hywel Dda] and will send it for comments once he hears from Wilmer Dykes.
(c) "Notes on BHIHS' paper on The anonymous Anglo-Viking coins of the Sword and Hammer type" [by Christopher Blunt], manuscript, two numbered pages on two folios (recto only), unattributed and undated but clearly in CEB's hand and specifically referred to in the in CEB's letter of 11 May (see item (b) above).
(d) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, single page, on House of Commons letterhead and dated from the Finance Committee on 11 May 1982, enclosing a paper that he describes as "a spin-off from reorganising Regnald/Bossall" [entitled "The anonymous Anglo-Viking coins of the sword and hammer type"] (see item (f) below) with a page of attached notes (see item (e) below). He noted that he has provisionally offered the paper to [Christopher] Challis for the next BNJ. He asks for comments and advice on several points regarding the paper and its bearing on their relations with Michael Dolley. There are annotations in pencil in the left margin and the lower margin in CEB's hand, and there is a note upper right in pen in CEB's hand that reads "Ans 12/5/82".
(e) notes, manuscript (pencil), single page, unattributed, undated and without title but clearly in CEB's hand, attached to the IS's letter of 11 May (see item (d) above) and with the heading "Has Ian compared ..."?
(f) paper entitled "The anonymous Anglo-Viking coins of the sword and hammer type" [by Ian Stewart], typescript, 10+1+3 pages (10 numbered pp. of text with unnumbered page consisting in a manuscript table (photocopy) inserted between pp. 7 & 8 plus 3 unnumbered pp. of notes) on fourteen folios, unattributed and undated but attached to IS's letter of 11 May (see item (d) above) and with the table in IS's hand.
(g) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 22 June 1982, commenting on the "splendid news about the Eadwald" and thanking CEB for the joint letter about CTCE [i.e. Coinage in Tenth-Century England]. He says that he will go through CEB's letter and comment on progress shortly but also notes that Parliament is very demanding at the moment; he suggests getting together for a weekend in late August or September. He encloses a paper entitled "The coinage of Sitric I" (see item (h) below), which he describes as "part 2 of [the] BNJ paper on [the?] CS type". He says that he is waiting to hear from Stewart [Lyon] about Elizabeth Pirie's paper at the BNS, adding that "it needs to be checked at this stage, before damage is done". There is a note in pen in the upper right margin of the recto in CEB's hand that reads "Ack 25/6".
(h) paper entitled "The coinage of Sitric I" [by Ian Stewart], typescript, seven pages numbered 11-17 plus one page of notes on eight folios (recto only), unattributed and undated but attached to IS's letter of 22 June (see item (g) above) and referred to in the letter.
(i) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, three pages on two folios, dated from Ramsbury on 25 June 1982, commenting that the revised second part of IS's paper cannot give offence to any reasonable person but adding that their friend is not reasonable. He says that he "had not put Sihtric's coinage quite as late as 926" and offers a few "trivial" points. He mentions that he was unable to attend Liz Pirie's paper on stycas but hopes it went well.
(j) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 3 July 1982, reporting that the history chapter is finished and that he is returning CEB's copy of the first draft plus the new one that incorporates the latest comments of CEB, Dorothy [Whitelock] and Henry [Loyn?]. He says that he now working on revising the classification chapter and on CEB's Athelstan chapter, after which he hope to go through the Edmund-Edgar chapters. He notes that CEB's new Eadward raises the question about when "the early (portrait) East Anglian coins of Coenwulf were struck. In a postscrtipt, he mentions the problem of the Æ diphthong and other similar characters common to Anglo-Saxon script. There is a note in pen in the upper right margin of the recto in CEB's hand that reads "Ans 8/7".

Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart with one card and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, two pages on two folios of recycled paper (recto only), dated 2 December 1972, commenting on IS's review of Michael Dolley's Medieval Anglo-Irish coins.
(b) card from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, dated 8 December 1972, thanking CEB for his comments on the review, promising to take account of them and elaborating on the significance of documentary references in the close rolls to denarii hiberniae, which he argues need not refer specifically to Irish pennies.
(c) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 14 December 1972, hoping to be able to deliver a gift [?] personally "to avoid the visit you propose", adding that "the two little coins come with [his] best wishes". He says that "the florin penny appears not to be recorded by Fox" so he is unable to say whether "he had it when he wrote". He describes the other as "a poor thing" that may fill a gap in IS's collection.
(d) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on Boxing Day 1972, describing the Henry IV penny as "one of the most unexpected and exciting Christmas presents [he] can ever remember having received". He also thanks CEB for Durham XVI with retrograde N, and he asks to say whether it will be too much for him to do Athelstan by about July.
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 27 December 1972, thanking IS for his part in the Edw III ½ groat. He says that he was touched by the proposals for a sep[arate?] American [birthday?] volume, but the form must be for "you all to decide". He also discusses plans to get the Athelstan volume finished by the end of May, and will try to engage a girl with the capacity to deal with both his writing and the unusual terminology of numismatics.
(f) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on 31 December 1972, expressing pleasure to know that CEB finds the prospect of the birthday volume as happy as do many of his friends. He suggests that CEB use the same person for his typing that IS uses, a Miss Victoria Stileman who is a family friend and works at the Ashmolean. He goes into some detail about the working arrangements that he has with her.

Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, one with an attachment:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 7 April 1983, noting that [Antony] Gunstone had sent the photographs for his Southern museums volume on which he would like some help and asking IS to looks over the ones that concern Offa's coins since he had CEB's index cards for the Offa coins. He says that he has put his comments at the bottom of Gunstone's list and asks for the return of the photos and list. He reports on Michael Dolley's funeral and names some of the people who attended. He says that he explained IS's absence to the Dolley family and they replied that they had received "a charming letter" from him.
(b) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 14 April 1983, thanking IS for his comments on the Gunstone photos and noting that some of the points he made had completely escaped him. He discusses the "puzzling Offa from Southampton" and his struggles to come up with a satisfactory reading of it. He says that he now has photographs of the Lough Ennell coins, observing that the small fragment indeed looks like an Alfred BMC XXI. He notes that there are also "some intriguing St Edmunds (post-Cuerdale)", some "sword 'temple' type coins", which ha says are "probably continental", and about ten small fragments. He describes some unusual characteristics on some of the St Edmunds.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 16 April 1983, thanking CEB for his letter and expressing satisfaction that his notes on the Gunstone coins were helpful. He says that he will be interested to see the photographs of the Lough Ennell coins and comments briefly on CEB's descriptions. There is an annotation in the upper right margin of the recto in CEB's hand to the effect that he answered the letter on 19 April, though there is no letter of this date from CEB among the papers of IS.
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, two folios (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 6 May 1983, thanking IS for returning the photographs of the Lough Ennell coins with his comments on them. He says that he has received a copy of [Michael] Kenny's text from Dublin, which he will show to IS later. In the meantime, he says that he wants "to show the temple-type coins to Mark [Blackburn] who has been working on this series for Philip [Grierson]'s great catalogue". He also wants to discuss the St Edmunds with [Hugh] Pagan, who will be visiting him the next weekend. He reports on his successful visit to Chester, which he says has a good deal of 10th-century Anglo-Saxon material from the various Chester hoards. There is discussion of the way some of the hoards were originally handled and of Sylloge politics. He mentions plans for IS to visit later in the summer, Mark Blackburn's recent visit and, in a postscript, a memorial service for Michael [Dolley] in Belfast.
(e) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from the House of Commons on 14 July 1983, enclosing his uncorrected draft on Offa (see item (f) below). The upper right margin carries an annotation in CEB's hand that reads "Ans 26/7", but the papers of IS contain no such reply.
(f) paper entitled "The London mint and the coinage of Offa", typescript (photocopy), 17 pages on 17 folios (recto only), one paragraph per page/folio, unattributed and undated, but referred to in Ian Stewart's letter of 14 July 1983 to Christopher Blunt (see item (e) above), and therefore attributable to Ian Stewart and datable to before 14 July.