Item 1963/2 - Six letters from Philip Grierson

6 items, paper

Six letters from Philip Grierson, all in typescript:
(a) dated 15 March 1963, advising that he "cannot manage next Wednesday", as he is soon leaving for Marseilles; there is a short paragraph on the logistics of typing, and a longer one in which PG explains why he has "managed no more of either book"; the reasons include the work he has done on a recent lecture on weight and coinage, a draft article on mint output in England and price changes, 15550-1640 (in response to a piece in the EconHR), and three lectures for France and Italy on Renaissance coin portraiture, coinage in Piedmont and Savoy in the 13th century, and the mint of Pavia in the early Middle Ages.
(b) dated 7 May 1963, thanking IS for offprints, the returned "Oboli" and a cheque; PG says that he has dictated material on modern methods of coinage for Coins & Medals and "was going to write [...] anyway to let off steam" in response to a note from Humphrey [Sutherland?] asking him "to excuse [Michael] Metcalf's shortcomings"; he wishes IS an enjoyable time at sea and adds in a PS that the typing of IS's material is delayed.
(c) dated 17 May 1963, informing IS that his typing has been done; PG states that he has retained a copy for use in Coins & Medals and discusses some of his recent work.
(d) dated 23 May 1963, providing cover for a photocopy "of a bit of Coins and Medals" that "can be used for Med. Num.", giving news of his work, thanking IS for a postcard and referring to a ducat that "was a bargain at 45/-"; PG asks if he will see IS at the June RNS, as he expects to have limited time until September.
(e) dated 11 June 1963, mentioning his still unfinished work on metrology and asking IS to have a look at his presidential address; he notes that Walker had sent him IS's paper on Mediaeval Die-Output, on which he suggests that IS make clear the difference between what dies could strike and what they did strike, which depended on circumstances; he mentions a forthcoming trip to Germany and says that he had not heard about Dolley going to Belfast, which he characterises as a mistake; there is a brief manuscript addition about the Dolley/Lagerquist paper.
(f) dated 30 October 1963, beginning with typing and then adding that he has drafted "a sizable chunk of an "Introduction to Byzentine Coinage" in preparation for his ten lectures in Paris in the spring, about which he has discussed with [Paul] Lemerle "whether they might make a book".