Item 2012/1 - Three letters from Hugh Pagan

3 items, paper

Three letters from Hugh Pagan:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 15 January 2012, informing IS of his plans to resume working on "the coins of the 'southern two-line type' [...] struck during the reigns of Eadmund, Eadred, Eadwig and Eadgar". For this, he asks IS if he would allow him to borrow the cards for the relevant coins from CEB's card file.
(b) typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 30 January 2012, thanking IS for permission to borrow CEB's index cards, which he will be to retrieve from Baldwin's in March. There follow suggestions on how best to dispose of CEB's volumes of NC and an "ex-General Fox set of auction catalogues", the latter of which could be worth as much as £25,000 and not less than £20,000. He says that the Fitzwilliam [Museum] may be have an interest in the catalogues but in addition to budgetary constraints, there will be a problem with duplication and in any case "with Mark [Blackburn]'s death the moment for a transaction of this nature may have passed" but it may be worth pursuing once the new keeper is in place. Another possibility would be the Berlin Coin Cabinet, which the Fox collection of Greek coins.
(c) typescript, single page, dated 26 September 2012, noting that he has only just become of a volume of the Correspondence of Dr William Hunter, 1740-1783, which contains a long letter of October 1770 from his brother-in-law, Rev. James Baillie, saying that he is sending him 57 coins, "evidently predominantly Scots". HEP reproduces an excerpt from the letter showing that the "Roberts and Davids" were found last Spring five miles above Hamilton up the Clyde in a small earthen pot with "a great many small coins of Edward III of England" and that "the two gold coins [...] were found this Summer in a small earthen pot in a kail yard at Biggar" in the south of the County. HEP supposes that Hunter obtained a parcel from the Brownlee hoard.