Item 1961/1 - Two letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart and one letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt

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Two letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart and one letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, on 6 August [1961], informing CEB that he has "been doing some more work on Edw[ardian] pennies [with George Tatler]. He further notes that, on the basis of the inventory of JDAT, five major hoards – Borscar, Lochmaben, Blackhills, Mellendcan, Carsphairn – were discovered around the time that the Foxes were developing their classification, which raises the possibility that their notes may throw some light of the composition of the hoards. He also asks whether the Foxes ever made any unpublished revisions of their scheme, particularly with respect to further subdivisions of the classes. He speaks of his intention to ask CEB's elder children Judith and Simon to a dinner party at short notice and asks of the best way of getting in touch with them directly. He finishes by saying that he intends to remain at Brown Shipley after deciding to give up discounting [?], emphasising however that "this is not yet public knowledge". In a postscript, he says that he has learned a lot from CEB's 'The Anglo-Saxon Coinage and the Historian', which appeared in Medieval Archaeology, vol. 1 (1960), pp. 1-15.
(b) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, three pages on two folios, dated from Ramsbury on 11 August 1961, explaining that he has nothing to offer IS from the papers of Earlie Fox, pointing out that he has only a series of notebooks covering the Plantagenet, Lancastrian and Yorkist period. He says that Earle Fox was unwell for some time before he died and did little or no work during that time. Most of his papers must have gone to his brother, he says, and he recount some of the family history, so even though he has the Fox coins, he has virtually no papers. He explains how to get in touch with his elder children and notes that Simon is now working at IBM in the City. He is interested to hear about IS's decision to remain with Brown Shipley, which he describes as a fine merchant-banking firm.
(c) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 1 September 1961, saying that he glad to know that IS acquired the Bald[red] fragment and adding that "the moneyer is of course Dunun". He believes that the coin is the second one in Grantley 889 but notes that the bust on his differs from other examples.