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Two letters from Jeffrey Mass, both completely undated:
(a) manuscript, single page, from Hertford College, Oxford, enclosing his paper, which he describes as "lecture notes". He says that Barrie Cook has invited him him to examine the "new short-cross hoard, which is from Lincolnshire and consists of 383 coins". This will occur after the inquest on 29 July [1993]. There is also reference to a possible exchange of coins.
(b) manuscript, single page, from Hertford College, Oxford, thanking IS for the comments on his paper. The rest of the letter is turned over to finalising an agreement about an exchange of coins.

Seven letters from Jeffrey Mass, all incompletely dated:
(a) manuscript, single page, dated from Islip, Oxfordshire, on 22 May, enclosing photographs of his three short-cross imitation, two complete and one cut half. The photographs are no longer associated with letter. JPM notes that all three are available for exchange.
(b) manuscript, single page, dated from Hertford College, Oxford, on 14 June, congratulating him on his Aimer – Fil Aimer hypothesis, which he describes as "a seductive solution to the conundrum". The rest of the letter is turned over to negotiations towards an exchange of coins with IS from their respective collections.
(c) typescript, single page, dated 24 August, accepting IS's offer of four coins for three of his plus three [cut] fractions, which are listed.
(d) typescript, single page, dated from Hertford College on 4 September, noting that his departure for the US on the 20th is fast approaching and acknowledging that any meeting will therefore need to wait until the following summer. JMP refers to an enclosure, no longer attached to the letter, of a paper that he has already submitted to the BNJ. He notes that he has had a very successful season on the coin front, "leaving aside Wainfleet", and he lists some of his salient acquisitions.
(e) typescript, single page, dated from Stanford University on 12 December, sharing news that he has been negotiating with Bill Conte for "another big chunk of the JJN [i.e. Jeffrey North] collection", including 170 new short-cross coins, ninety-five of which are class VII, and five imitations, which brings his total number of imitations to twenty-four. JPM described the acquisition as his most satisfying apart from when he obtained the Wainfleet coins in September 1995. There is a manuscript PS in which he states that he is informing Mark Blackburn about the class VII coins.
(f) typescript, single page, dated from Stanford University on 13 December, thanking IS for his letter and careful reading of his paper, and responding to some of the points that IS raised in his letter. He discusses news that IS acquired a class Ia1/Ia2 short-cross coin of the moneyer Aimer and notes that one of the coins that he obtained from the Wainfleet hoard is even nicer. He also mentions his reluctance to give details about the size of his collection and its whereabouts, a question relating the proximity of Winchester and Wilton, Martin Allen's preference for the phrase "double-crescent E" over "fouble half-moon E", and his own recent acquisition of a short-cross imitation, promising that he'll try to get a polaroid to IS.
(g) typescript, single page, dated from Stanford University on 29 December, sharing news of a recent acquisition in which he obtained a class IVc short-cross coin of RANDVL.ON.NO and promising to turn over the imitation that owes IS upon his return.

Seven letters from Eric Harris to Edgar Winstanley, incompletely dated with day and month but lacking the year:
(a) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 9 January, thanking EJW for his letter about the position of the key on the Rotherham pence and referring to Edwards with sloping key and Richards with vertical key. EJH then turns to EJW's interest in differences amonst 'sovereign', noting that he has identified thirteen sub-types, which include the well-known ones. There are manuscript annotations in the text of the letter that are intended to illustrate some of the differences.
(b) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 24 January, sending prints of the Richard III penny, noting that he recently saw an Edward IV penny with G and vertical key, and asking for comments on his previous letter.
(c) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 16 June [1962?], stating that EJW's paper with Potter [on the coinage of Henry VII in the BNJ, vols. 30-32, 1960-1962] "is a constant source of interest" and that he is "looking forward to the next part". EJH refers to his list of varieties of the York sovereign pence in Seaby's – with an annotation in pencil in the hand of IS giving the date as April 1961 – and noting that he has since added to the list. In the final paragraph, he states that the half-pence are confusing and refers to three in particular: Lockett 1716, a similar coin with a different number of saltires in the reverse legend, one with a curious pheon initial mark, and one that he regards as a farthing on the basis of "Carlyon-Britton's test or measuring the diameter of the inner circle.
(d) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 13 November, writing on the subject of Henry VII as EJW invited to do back in June. He says that he has mounted his coins in index card and is enclosing two of them for inspection, his alleged farthing and the half-penny with pheon initial mark. He wonders whether the pheon marked coins might have been used into the time of Henry VIII. He notes EJW's comment on the irregularities in the York sovereign pence but asks whether there are not also many varieties of the Durham issues. EjH concludes by mentioning that he recently "had occasion to refer to his [i.e. EJW's] most useful Richard III paper" and recounting some of his recent collecting activities.
(e) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 15 November, thanking EJW for the prompt return of his coins, his comments upon them and his suggestion that EJH continue to investigate the small silver of Henry VII. He says that the Richard III penny is the one illustrated in Seaby's no. 5235, June 1959, which has belonged to the collections of Shirley-Fox, Carlyon-Britton and his own but now rests with Henry Mossop. The initial mark, he notes, "is quite clearly a rose".
(f) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 29 November, acknowledging that his farthing probably belongs to Henry VI on the grounds of weight. He says that EJW's explanation for the rose on the Richard III penny would work since only the lower half can be seen and asks for a reference to an illustration "of a groat with the mark placed with a horizontal division".
(g) typescript, single page, dated from Alicia Gardens, Kenton, Middlesex, on 26 December [1962?], thanking EJW for his letter and stating that he enjoyed the second instalment of the series on Henry VII. He says that EJW appears to arrived at a very satisfactory arrangement of the coins. He lists a several coins for comment, including a Richard III groat similar to p. 2.1 in the article, a Henry VII groat reading FRANCI with trefoils alongside the cross at the top, and a York sovereign penny type 1 with trefoil after ACT, among others.
There are two related pieces that were associated with the letters:
(h) notes, in manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), undated, having on one side a series of seven transcriptions of coin legends, and on the other, under the heading EJH, a list of coin variants with denominations and mints.
(i) print-out of brief e-mail exchange between Lady Stewartby and Peter Preston-Morley, dated 21 & 23 November 2015, with Lady Stewartby asking whether PPM had any information on whether EJH was still alive and PPM replying that EJH had "died some years ago" and that his wife Dora had predeceased, probably in 1998.

Seven letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 11 January 1985, thanking IS for sending his little paper on that curious variety of the Portcullis groat of Henry VIII and inviting him to cite the JSF [d.1939?] specimen, which he believes may be RCB's [i.e. Raymond Carolyn-Britton] second specimen. CEB tells IS that he has prepared a binder comparable to the one he sent to him for Stewart Lyon, to which he may add what he likes, and discusses further the status of their volume [i.e. CTCE = Coinage in Tenth-Century England], proposing an Easter target date for all manuscripts. He says that "Rosemand Gunstone has 'surfaced' (her phrase)", and he asked her whether she's available to do some typing for CTCE, which she is happy to do. He notes that he has secured the Edgar CC of Northampton by [the moneyer] Eadulf, which was found in the vicinity of Stevenage. He asks IS to thank Deborah for his "Erik Bloodaxe mug".
(b) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 19 February 1985, stating that he has written "a little note on the NEAT coin of Edgar, which he intends to offer to SNC [i.e. Spink's Numismatic Circular], and further discussing Neatishead as the possible mint. He reiterates his resolve to obtain the coin and then turns to Peggy Dolmi-Radcliffe's coins, Edw I to Henry VII, which are coming up for sale at Glendinings on 17 April. He encloses a copy of his piece on the Edgar and would welcome comments.
(c) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, single page, dated from Ramsbury on 6 March 1985, sending "another batch for CTCE" [i.e. Coinage in Tenth Century England], having sent a set to Stewart [Lyon]. He reports that Spinks (Finn) "bought NEAT from a small, reasonably reliable dealer" who claims that it was found within seven miles of Neatishead. He says that they may need to revise his little note. In a postscript, he writes "Ashdon hoard enclosed".
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 15 March 1985, reporting that Michael Metcalf has visited him and has left "first-rate" photographs of the Forum coins that he will retrieve upon his return from Cyprus. CEB says that DMM will adopt their classification, which he will send him, and welcomes advice. He said that DMM became involved in the Rome project as a result of an assistant keeper from Rome coming to work at Oxford and getting to know him. A new keeper was appointed in Rome and arranged to have the coins from the hoard cleaned. She then wrote to Michael asking him whether he would be interested in writing it up. The initiative thus came entirely from the other side. After cleaning, most of the coins are in very good condition, though a few have suffered some damage in cleaning, about which he provides some additional details.
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 15 April 1985, noting that he has received an invitation to the Trial of the Pyx in which he detects IS's hand, but stating that he must decline the invitation because it takes place soon after his departure for the USA to visit her daughter Anne in her new home. Turning to CTCE [= Coinage in Tenth-Century England], he says that "Stewart [Lyon] has now come up with a detailed listing of moneyers", which he is now studying. He says that, incidentally, Stewart may be in a good position, based on his work on Edward, to learn whether Marion is starting a second Sylloge volume. He notes that he leaves for Lawrence, Kansas, [USA], on the 30th [of April] and stays there until 16 May. In a postscript, he says that he hopes "soon to get down to Athelstan in the light of Stewart's work".
(f) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 2 May 1985, relating how he talked to David Wilson about concerns over "the non-publication of major hoard reports" and noting how he is becoming bored with their persistence in this. He says that Wilson told him about "a young man called [Barrie] Cook", who had been appointed to the vacant post of Assistant Keeper and will eventually assume some of the responsibilities that now belong to Marion [Archibald] and relieve her of a lot of pressure. CEB says that he also asked DW whether Marion was starting to work on a second Sylloge volume. If she was, and the period were from Alfred to Edward the Elder, as has been mentioned, "then she could build on Stewart for the latter", but she would need to do her own research on Alfred, but DW didn't know. Anyway, he says that he suggested giving priority to hoards like "Fishpool, Prestwich, Lincoln and Colchester. CEB suggests that unless they "can find out if Marion has been told to prepare BMS II – and stop it – the prospect of seeing the hoard reports in print is as remote as ever". In speaking with DW, CEB says that he tried to stress that they were not in any way criticising Marion, "who works like a beaver – but just has too much put on her". He looks forward to the Easter break and the prospect that Stewart [Lyon] will finish Edward for CTCE, since his own revision of Athelstan will depend in part on Stewart's revised arrangement, but he understand that the work has already produced a new moneyer for both Edward the Elder and Edmund.
(g) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Lawrence, Kansas [USA], on 10 May 1985, folded into quarters for enclosing in an envelope addressed to "Ian Stewart" and carrying the instruction "To be given to him after my death" (see item (h) below), telling IS how much he has "valued the friendship of [him] and [his] family, especially since Elisabeth died". He tells IS that, "as an entirely inadequate return, [he has] asked that a few little things that might be of interest should be sent to [him]. With most of these things, he says, IS will have no problem, but his "fairly voluminous numismatic correspondence and papers (including a large box of Dolleyiana!) may well prove more" than IS either wants to have or cope with. A lot of the material "is only fit for a bonfire", and he hopes to sort it out "once CTCE is out of the way", but some will likely be of interest. If IS feels he cannot cope with the material, then he suggests that it may be worth exploring whether Mark Blackburn/Fitzwilliam Museum is/are interested. He notes that "there will obviously be in some of the letters things that are indiscreet or confidential and hope[s] they will be treated accordingly". He says that he also has smaller parcels of papers from Winstanley and King, which should be treated in the same manner. In the event that no-one wants that papers, Reading University would probably want the Stenton letters. He adds that he has instructed his executors, his children Simon and Judith, to consult IS about the handling of the coin collection, with Peter Mitchell acting as a provisional advisor. The greatly increased value of coins makes the collection an important part of the estate.
(h) envelope with which item (g) above was associated, undated but addressed to "Ian Stewart" with the instruction "To be given to him after my death", in CEB's hand.

Seven letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 15 June 1984, saying that he would welcome a visit from IS and his family in August and making some preliminary arrangements. He encloses a draft of a short paper "on the York dies and lead pieces, asking IS for his views, saying that he hasn't yet sent it to Stewart [Lyon] and noting that York has agreed to him publishing on the subject.
(b) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 21 June 1984, thanking IS for his helpful comments on the section with which he agrees entirely and saying that he is sending a revised draft to Stewart [Lyon] "in the hope that he will too". He thanks IS for the photograph of the Edgar [coin of the moneyer] Wiferth, noting that they now have "most of that moneyer 'under wraps' though the odd one may still elude [them]". He says that he is pleased about IS getting "the anon[ymous] fragment from SNC [i.e. Spink's Numismatic Circular] 3575" and describes it as "a jolly rare coin – probably ex Walters 1932, 41". He also notes the Ceolnoth coin 3576, which "looks generally rather similar to Hunter 401 and that group". [NB: Ceolnoth was Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 870.] He says that he just received from Sandy Campbell [?] a fascinating Eadred HT1 by [the moneyer] Herewig that he just acquired.
(c) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 11 September 1984, congratulating IS on the outcome of the [recent cabinet] reshuffle, which shows that his efforts are appreciated. He refers to Stewart Lyon's letter and list of moneyers, whiich he describes as very helpful.
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 5 October 1984, thanking IS for his postcard from Scotland and observing how it is that "Glasgow has at last woken up to the importance of the Burnell collection", which he looks forward to seeing. He says that his arm is slowly progressing and that he is spending his "enforced houseboundness [sic] of CTCE [i.e. Coinage in Tenth-Century England] and [has] got the chapters on HT for Eadmund and Eadred into [...] final shape". He is starting Edwig, he says. He also refers to "the Garrett catalogue", which he describes as "the size of the telephone directory", and adds that "really it is outrageous when a man loans a splendid collection to a place of higher learning like the Johns Hopkins University – and they pop it".
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 2 November 1984, reporting useful progress of CTCE, notably a visit from "Halsey [?] and a technical man from OUP" to go through the typescript and the "rather frightening tables of moneyers – which however failed to frighten them at all". He thinks they are not far from having the complete text. He refers to a Mercian solidus from the in which the BM is interested, but he has learned from Patrick Finn that an "investor collector" is also interested specifically in the Anglo-Saxon series.
(f) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 14 November 1984, referring to a "pretty problem" on which he would like to know IS's opinion. He explains the Spinks has an Edgar BC penny by the moneyer BOGE in the typical East Anglian style and gives a transcription of the reverse legend: BOGEMONETANEAT. The coin is said to have been found near Neatishead in Norfolk, which may suggest a new mint there, but he thinks it is a highly unlikely place for a mint and in any case is near Norwich. CEB spends the rest of letter discussing the coins, ultimately suggesting that he will go for it only if the BM drops out.
(g) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 4 December 1984, telling IS that he has passed his BEH Memorial paper to Philip [Grierson]. He sends IS a a coin to keep, as he acquired a better example from the Spink's Numismatic Circular September 1984.

Consists of photocopied typescripts of poems.

The poems about Christmas are: untitled, beginning 'Aquinas' (28 Sep 1963); untitled, beginning 'I, having built a house' (11 Nov 1960); untitled, beginning 'Faster than light' (5 Dec 1958); untitled, beginning 'Snow' (3 Dec 1957); untitled, beginning 'A landscape' (13 Jul 1954): untitled, beginning 'There must have been a time' (29 Aug 1962); untitled, beginning 'The desert' (26 Nov 1956).

The poems [mainly] about Spain are: 'The Bullfight' (1939); 'War and Peace' (1939); 'The Sleeping and the Dead' (1937); 'Guadalajara' (1937); 'Take Your Gun' (1937); 'The Death of W B Yeats' (1939); 'The Death of Pius XI' (1939); 'God' (1938); 'The Word' (1939).

Seven Chorale Preludes (Second Set). By C. H. H. Parry [Charles Hubert Hastings Parry].
Published by Novello & Co., Ltd., London. In: "Original Compositions for the Organ (New Series) No. 45".

Contents:

• 1. Chorale Prelude on "Croft's 136th"
• 2. Chorale Prelude on "Martyrdom"
• 3. Chorale Prelude on "St. Thomas"
• 4. Chorale Prelude on "St. Mary"
• 5. Chorale Prelude on "Eventide"
• 6. Chorale Prelude on "St. Cross"
• 7. Chorale Prelude on "Hanover"

Parties: (1) Richard Banks Harranden and his wife Sophia, (2) Catherine Harrenden [their daughter], (3) Francis George Hodgson, (4) Domville Taylor and Ebenezer Foster the younger. Settlement upon the marriage of Miss Catherine Harraden to Francis George Hodgson two messuages or tenements

Parties: (1) John Metcalfe, (2) Mr John William Metcalfe.
Settlement of leasehold premises No 14 New Square.

Hand drawing showing plans of holes for steel columns setting out with enlarged detail plans of the holes. No date was indicated on the drawing.

Service booklets and programmes for other events held in the chapel, covering the regular weekly services, special services such as carol services, services for the commemoration of benefactors, memorial services, also concerts and a few weddings. During term there were daily services, consisting generally of Holy Communion, Matins and Evensong on Sundays, and Matins and Evensong on weekdays, but with variations for e.g. Saints' Days, and when the Litany and Compline were used. Some services were choral and some said. Sometimes there was a termly theme for sermons, and collections were take for a variety of good causes, including overseas mssions and local welfare organisations.

Receipt of payment for services and attendance at library to D. Hall, 2 Newnham, amount £15.

Includes papers relating to commemoration of benefactors, funerals and memorials.

Order of service of lessons and carols in the College Chapel on Sunday 28th November 1954 at 6.50pm. Before the service there was an organ recital of Chorale Preludes from 'The Little Organ Book' (J. S. Bach); Two corale preludes (Flor Peeters); and Three Christmas pieces (Robin Milford)

Sermons on the Virgin and saints; M. R. James's no. 13. Contains: (1) sermons on the Virgin, the second of which contains English verses and a story about an image in Cyclopes, India; (2) sermons on the saints from St Andrew to St Katherine, numbered 62 to 126; (3) "sermones de tempore", numbere from 1 to 53 and followed by a table; (4) a sermon in single lines, in another hand; (5) sermons in double columns of 49 lines, foliated from 1 to 33, incipit: Reuertar in principio cum Tobia; (6) sermons in another hand, 43 lines to a page, foliated 34 to 149; (7) a table to this last set of sermons.

Stipends for 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, a total of £3 4s. Morning Sermonds (5 sermons) for 12s. Total of £3 16s. Signed by (Rev?) H (?).

A sermon preached in Jesus College Chapel by Henry Arthur Morgan, newly elected Master

Counsel's Opinion as to whether College can proceed against Carter, Corporation Lessee, who has built 4 houses on the waste land between the College closes on either side of the road (Butt Close and Christ's Pieces)

Series of letters to the Revd. Dr. French from Rev. Robert Merry;

(1) Ely, 25th August 1845

Rev. Sir,

At present I have great doubt whether the Law will allow me to accede to your request, however disposed I may be to do so. The 1 & 2 Victoria c. 106 feet 62 appears to the imperative upon me; but I will carefully examine the matter, and do the best I can in the case. I will write again in the course of a week or so.
Understanding that the money for your school will not be wanted till next year, you may put me down for £10.

I remain, Rev. Sir, yours very faithfully,

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry

(2) Ely, 27th August 1845

Rev. Sir,

I can find nothing that can abate the force of the Act which I specified in my last note. A house cannot be built in a day; so that some time must be allowed for the building of one. Uour best plan, as it appears to me, will be to ascertain when [underlined] you may rely [underlined] upon the assistance of the Froby Fund; and let me know the result of your inquiries.

I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your very faithful servant

[Signed] The Rev. R. Merry.

(3) Ely ,8th of September 1845

Rev. Sir,

On inquiry, I find that the clause to which I referred you is compulsory [underlined]: in other words, that there is no other Act or clause that can relieve me from the necessity of enforcing the building of a house of residence. As therefore I have no discretionary power in the matter, I trust that you will take such steps as may be needful for the building of a Glebe House.
In almost all cases of small livings without fit houses of residence, the same difficulties will arise; but however much a Bishop may lament that there should be such difficulties, he is bound to carry the Act into effect.

I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your very faithful servant.

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry.

(4) Ely, 17th of September, 1845

Rev. Sir,

I have given directions for a License for non-Residence, corresponding to your Petition, till 31 Dec. 1846. This will afford time for considering what may be the best to be done.
I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant.

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry.