Item 1982/2 - Letter from Ian Stewart to Michael Dolley, three cards from Michael Dolley to Ian Stewart and photocopies of another

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Letter from Ian Stewart to Michael Dolley, three cards from Michael Dolley to Ian Stewart and photocopies of another, listed here in chronological order:
(a) photocopy of letter from Ian Stewart to Michael [Dolley], from an original manuscript letter, single page, dated 7 July 1982, as cover for a paper "on Vikings of the 920s" that IS was planning to submit to the BNJ. He notes that "there will be parts of it about which we hold different views" but sends it in haste since he is aware that MD will soon depart for Scandinavia.
(b) card from Michael Dolley addressed to B.H.I.H. Stewart, in manuscript, one side only, bearing postal cancellation mark from "South Devon" on 15 July 1982, thanking IS for sending the paper that he intends to submit to the BNJ but hoping that he will withhold doing so until the autumn. He refers to his disagreement with [Kirsten] "Bendixen and her English collaborators for suppressio veri", a charge that he says he will also make in the "right of reply" that the NC is giving him in respect of the IS's paper there with CEB [on 'The coinage of Regnald I of York and the Bossall hoard']. In addition, MD lays out his chronology of the sword coins, announces that he will travel to Scandinavia the next day and expresses his satisfaction with the Grierson proofs.
(c) photocopies of one side of a card from Michael Dolley, in typescript, dated 6 August 1982, with the caption for the illustration on the other side reading "Sword with rich gilt decoration, set with garnets, Boatgrave I, Vendel, Uppland, about 700". There is no salutation. It appears to be intended for someone other than IS, who is referred to in the third person; it was probably sent to CEB, since MD notes that "you and Ian" make "no reference to it" [i.e. the sword of Carlus]. He concludes saying that "run to earth the xerox which defeated the House of Commons Library's resources". There is a dark copy of the card and three lighter ones.
(d) card from Michael Dolley, in typescript, recto & verso, dated from Stockholm on 10 August 1982, thanking IS [again?] for allowing him to see the paper in advance of submission to the BNJ. The card lacks a salutation but the context shows that it was meant for IS, with MD stating his hope that the article will not be submitted until he has sent in the text of his "right of answer" to IS's paper with CEB for NC.
(e) card from Michael Dolley, in manuscript, dated 2 September 1982, thanking the recipient for a card. There is no salutation but context again indicates that the recipient was IS, with MD saying that he expects "critical citation" of several references. He praises KS [Kolbjørn Skaare?] for the way that he "takes apart [Marion] Archibald and [Kirsten] Bendixen", and he expects both IS and CEB to indicate "dissent from Archibald's preposterous chronology or else [face] the charge of suppressio veri again". He also mentions some highlights of his Scandinavian trip.