Item 1989/2 - Three letters from Martin Allen

3 items, paper

Three letters from Martin Allen:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 26 May 1989, thanking IS for sending photocopies from P.R. 7 John and acknowledging that he "had not noticed the unfortunate discrepancy between the references to the Oxford exchange". He says that he asked Stewart Lyon about his use of statistics, which "has prompted him to write his own article" on die-output. MRA promises to send a revised paper as soon as he incorporates the results of Stewart Lyon's work. He concludes with a question about photographing Ian Stewart's short-cross coins.
(b) typescript, single page, dated 9 June 1989, thanking IS for his letter of 5 June and expressing interest in seeing the revised version of Ian Stewart's class V paper. He says that Stewart Lyon's paper will soon be ready and hopes that all three papers will be published together. He further notes that his work has already produced interesting statistics and that "It will soon be possible to suggest reasonably credible estimates of the numbers of dies used to produce each of the first five short cross classes".
(c) typescript, single page, dated 5 July 1989, saying that he is impressed by Ian Stewart's revised recoinage paper and is "enclosing a few very minor possible amendments". He further notes Stewart Lyon's suggestion that he pass along a copy of his paper, which he encloses, and asks whether he should speak to editors about publishing all three papers together. In conclusion, he mentions that he would be very interested to see Ian Stewart's coins from classes II-IV and wonders about the possibility of seeing the rest of IS's short-cross material. There are three attachments all associated with this letter:
(i) Martin Allen's comments on Ian Stewart's paper, in typescript, with Incipit = General ...
(ii) further comments. in typescript, covering some of the same points.
(iii) excerpt from Ian Stewart's paper, one paragraph, with annotations and corrections.