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- 1972 (Creation)
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6 items, paper
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Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart with one card and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, two pages on two folios of recycled paper (recto only), dated 2 December 1972, commenting on IS's review of Michael Dolley's Medieval Anglo-Irish coins.
(b) card from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, dated 8 December 1972, thanking CEB for his comments on the review, promising to take account of them and elaborating on the significance of documentary references in the close rolls to denarii hiberniae, which he argues need not refer specifically to Irish pennies.
(c) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 14 December 1972, hoping to be able to deliver a gift [?] personally "to avoid the visit you propose", adding that "the two little coins come with [his] best wishes". He says that "the florin penny appears not to be recorded by Fox" so he is unable to say whether "he had it when he wrote". He describes the other as "a poor thing" that may fill a gap in IS's collection.
(d) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on Boxing Day 1972, describing the Henry IV penny as "one of the most unexpected and exciting Christmas presents [he] can ever remember having received". He also thanks CEB for Durham XVI with retrograde N, and he asks to say whether it will be too much for him to do Athelstan by about July.
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 27 December 1972, thanking IS for his part in the Edw III ½ groat. He says that he was touched by the proposals for a sep[arate?] American [birthday?] volume, but the form must be for "you all to decide". He also discusses plans to get the Athelstan volume finished by the end of May, and will try to engage a girl with the capacity to deal with both his writing and the unusual terminology of numismatics.
(f) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from St George's Road, London SE1, on 31 December 1972, expressing pleasure to know that CEB finds the prospect of the birthday volume as happy as do many of his friends. He suggests that CEB use the same person for his typing that IS uses, a Miss Victoria Stileman who is a family friend and works at the Ashmolean. He goes into some detail about the working arrangements that he has with her.