Item 1961/1 - Two cards and five letters from Philip Grierson

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Two cards and five letters from Philip Grierson:
(a) manuscript card dated 26 March 1961, in which PG apologises to IS for not being able to attend his paper on the following evening due a cold acquired in Ireland and an excess of work that needs to be completed hastily.
(b) typescript letter dated 1 June 1961, in which PG recounts taking coffee with Dorothy Whitelock, apologises that he has been able to show IS nothing new, notes that he is sending two offprints under separate cover, and mentions that "the Fitzwilliam Guide to Medieval Coins [...] threatens to founder over finance".
(c) typescript letter dated 19 June 1961, in which PG relates his discovery in the Thomsen catalogue of a familiar Salvator penny with the unfamiliar reading KAROLVS instead of JACOBVS, adding that he wrote about to Mørkholm, who confirmed the reading and sent rubbings. He also notes discusses IS's chapter on Collections of Material and alludes to IS's forthcoming visit on Saturday.
(d) typescript letter dated 28 August 1961, in which PG thanks IS for his recent letter and congratulates him for completing a lengthy review. He also mentions his ongoing work on Byzantine coins, a recent communication from Peter Wait about a Guide to the Principal Coins of the M[iddle] A[ges], his return of sterling to IS, and a cast that Mørkholm sent from Denmark.
(e) manuscript card dated 25 October 1961, in which PG reminds IS that he will be away in Rome on the the 4th and asks whether IS needs a room in college for the weekend of the 11th. PG also asks whether IS knows the Ledger of Andrew Halyburton (1867), which he says is full of coin references from around 1500, and the Compt Buik of David Wedderburne (1898), which "is full of interesting things".
(f) typescript letter dated 31 October 1961, in which PG tells IS that he has made arrangements for his forthcoming visit, including the reservation of a squash court, quotes "the most monstrous piece of verbiage [...] from Toynbee's Study of History", agrees to an agenda [for the visit of IS] and concludes with an update on his work on weights and measures.
(g) typescript letter dated 17 November 1961, in which PG promises to ask Mørkholm for another cast [of the Salvator penny on IS's behalf]. There is discussion about "the Samos paper" and "Robinson's suggestion about a steady limited coinage", and about "a fascinating group of documents" on Scottish weights and measures.