Item 1962/1 - Three cards and four letters from Philip Grierson

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One card and five letters from Philip Grierson:
(a) manuscript card dated 18 February 1962, in which PG expresses sorrow that IS is "laid up" so that he did not see him the previous evening; he has some draft material to pass along to him and wishes to know whether IS will attend the "Royal" on Wednesday so that he may do so then. There is an annotation in pencil on the recto.
(b) manuscript letter on Club de la Fondation Universitaire letterhead (Bruxelles) dated 4 avril 1962, in which PG thanks IS for leaving the MS for him along with the notes and comments. He writes that his lecturing obligations leave him little free time, but he admits to expending much of what he has on pleasure reading and museum visits. He then discusses Chapter 1, which he says is not shaping up very well. PG mentions his plans to return to Cambridge on 18 April and apologises for missing two papers because of an appalling cold.
(c) manuscript card dated 2 July 1962, in which PG passes along to IS the address of a Russian scholar (Golenko).
(d) typescript letter dated 17 August and sent from Dumbarton Oaks, in which PG agrees to set aside Chapter 15 for later and states that he followed IS's advice and "began something general on Byzantine numismatics". The is some annotation about the "Hoard lit." on the verso.
(e) manuscript card dated 25 October 1962, PG enthuses about his "most interesting acquisition for a long time": an imitation gigliato struck under the Turkish emirs of Aydin at Ephesus in Asia Minor in the fourteenth century. PG gives a transcription of the legend: +MONETA:QUE:FIT:IN:ThEOLOGOS; +:DE:MANDATO:DNI:EIUS:DE:LOCI.
(f) a typescript letter of 13 November 1962, in which PG thanks IS for the paper on die output and states that he has been unproductive since returning from Dumbarton Oaks but has now started to revise his presidential address, which he expects Michael [Metcalf?] is busy refuting. Grierson discusses his own work on sovereigns as well as Winstanley's and Blunt's interest in the same. PG mentions that "The Age of the Vikings looks superficially very good", passes along the address of a Polish scholar (Tabaczynski) to IS, makes a reference to [Michael] Metcalf and looks forward to their next meetings.
(g) typescript letter 29 December 1962, in which PG states that he has been working on weights, received some nice coins from sales in Switzerland and Italy, and has just received the Huntington medal from the ANS.