Item 1991/2 - Letter from Mark Blackburn with three attachments

5 items, paper

Letter from Mark Blackburn, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 22 June 1991, with three attachments, returning IS's Shillington paper and making several observations about the paper and its implications. He asks IS to drop into the Fitzwilliam Museum the next time he is in Cambridge to see the interesting collection of 9th- to 12th-century coins (excl. stycas) that Stewart [Lyon] has deposited. He notes that the keepership of Coins & Medals in the Fitzwilliam Museum has been advertised in anticipation of Ted [Buttrey]'s upcoming retirement and says that both he and Roger Bland have "put in for it". If he gets the post, he says, there will arise the need to find another assistant for Philip [Grierson] for MEC, and he adds that winning the post would protect the long-term interests of MEC. In a PS, he notes that he has received the award of the Société française particularly for his participation in MEC.
There are three attachments:
(a) photocopy of two pages (pp. 8-9) from the Sotheby catalogue for the dispersal of the Sir Henry Ellis collection, 26 May 1869, listing twenty-five lots of English coins, post-conquest, from William I to Henry VII, with prices realised.
(b) copy of Appendix II [from Ian Stewart's paper on the Shillington hoard], typescript, nine pages on nine folios (recto only), undated, entitled 'Coins of William II and Henry I stated or likely to be from the Shillington hoard'.
(c) photocopy of sixteen endnotes, typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), undated, mostly of bibliographic references with some further explanatory notes.

For related correspondence concerning Ian Stewart's work on the Shillington hoard, see JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/FINN/1978/1 and JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/METCALF/1991/2