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- 1980 (Creation)
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Three letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt with three attachments:
(a) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 28 August 1980, recommending minor changes to three paragraphs of "admirable" piece and suggesting that only the first one is of any significance. He advises "not to use wording that implies there were no pennies before Offa when the Hongham [?] coins are likely to have been struck". He refers to an enclosure described as "Post-Brunanburh" and says that he heard from Elizabeth Pirie news about the St Peter die from Coppergate.
(b) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), on House of Commons letterhead, dated 26 November 1980, returning CEB's two-page draft of "Proposed order of Norse coins 939-954 in the BM Sylloge (2 plates)" (see item (c) below) with his own proposed arrangement (see item (d) below). He agrees that BMA 319 belongs "under Edgar irregular" and encloses "a few notes on B-F-V equivalents" (see item (e) below).
(c) draft manuscript, two pages on two folios of recycled paper (recto only), entitled "Proposed order of Norse coins 939-954 in the BM Sylloge (2 plates)", unattributed and undated but unmistakably in CEB's hand.
(d) draft manuscript, single page of lined paper, with the heading "This was my provisional order for mini-corpus", unattributed and undated but in IS's hand.
(e) draft manuscript (photocopy?), single page, untitled, unattributed and undated, but in IS's hand, concerning the names of certain moneyers on Viking coins and the interchangeability of the B-F-V.
(f) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 12 December 1980, enclosing CEB's text plus two copies, having sent others to Marion [Archibald] and Stewart [Lyon]. He suggests that completion of the book is "now in sight" and notes that his task is to redo the section on the later Vikings. He informs CEB that he has acquired "the BMC Ie by Heremod", which he regards as regular, and an HR2 Odelriht.