Item 1962/3 - Two letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart with two cards and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt

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Two letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart with one letter of Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 18 September 1962, saying that the postcard IS sent from the Costa del Sol happily reminded him of Cordoba. He notes that Michael [Dolley] recently left for a fortnight in Stockholm with CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon], leaving IS's "Moneta" paper with CEB and asking him to relay his comments, which he does.
(b) card from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, dated 29 September 1962, acknowledging receipt of his "Moneta" article and CEB's letter of 18 September 1962. He goes on to discuss some of the finer linguistic points that form the subject of his paper.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, four pages on one folio folded into a little booklet (recto & verso), dated 8 October 1962, noting that he has carried his draft of the Mercia papers as far as he is able without knowing what CEB is writing, since the Mercian and East Anglian series overlap the two papers. Before meeting to coordinate their efforts, however, IS broaches a fresh idea with CEB about the non-portrait and portrait types of Canterbury, asking whether he considers it plausible.
(d) card from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, dated 10 November 1962, thanking CEB for the offprint of his presidential address, which will be useful to have. He says that his Mercia manuscript is with CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon], who is going to have it typed and will send a copy. He also notes that "Pagan of West School" sent him photographs of two "staggering Delgany coins", presumably in reference to the Delgany hoard of 1874, asking of Pagan "who is he"? In closing, he asks CEB whether he may illustrate his IV/V mule for a paper with [George] Tatler on Edwardian pence. There is a note in red ink in CEB's hand, which reads "Sent to BHIHS 21-11-62".
(e) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 25 November [1962?], sending a final draft – or near final draft – of his Moneta article with just a few points that need to rectified a table and the footnotes. He asks CEB to provide the inscriptions for F. Baldwin's coins, notes that CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon] will supply the page reference to Pegge, and asks CEB for the date of Thomen's vol. 3. He says that he has standardised the spellings and taken account of CEB's and RHMD's [i.e. Michael Dolley's] criticisms and comments. NB: IS does not give the year as part of the date; "64?" has been pencilled in next to the rest of the date, but the article to which the letter refers appears in BNJ vol. 31 for 1962, which has a publication date of 1963, so the letter must be earlier, probably 1962.
(f) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated "Xmas Eve" only but datable to about 1962 on the grounds that the subject of the letter is an advanced version of IS's MONETA / MOT article, which appeared in the BNJ volume for 1962.

For the published version of the Moneta article, see B.H.I.H. Stewart, 'MONETA and MOT on Anglo-Saxon coins', British Numismatic Journal, vol. 31 (1962), pp. 27-42.