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- 1968 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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One letter and one card from Philip Grierson:
(a) letter, in typescript, single page, dated 4 January 1968, noting that he has been so wrapped up with work on DOC vol. 2 that he now has nothing in the press, which is highly unusual, and that Owen Chadwick passed him "a long letter from D. E. Williams with fantasies about Cuerdale". He also says that a bad cold kept him from coming into town this week and reports on his forthcoming movements. There is a manuscript addendum in which PG states that he has "found some texts allowing [him] to identify – and date – Henry VII's dandyprats. They are half-groats of his 3rd Irish issue, and were struck in Oct. or Nov. 1492".
(b) card, in manuscript, same date, stating that the origin of the unusual cross form on Cuerdale K.I, 3 must be the rare papal denaro of Hadrian I (772-795) in CNI XV, pl. IV.3.