Item 1983/3 - Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, one with an attachment, and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt

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Three letters from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, one with attachment, and two letters from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt:
(a) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript (carbon-copy), two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 11 September 1983, thanking IS for the copies of the moneyers' lists and making some comments on them. He says that he very much enjoyed the recent visit of IS's family and notes that Liz Pirie will be visiting him this week. During the visit, he expects to be appraised of her latest thinking on the stycas, but he adds that he knows little about them and therefore hesitates to express an opinion. He understands that she is not happy about the way they have asked her to arrange the material for her sylloge volume.
(b) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 8 October 1983, thanking CEB for the retyped material on the horizontal types and reporting that he now has Stewart Lyon's note on weights. He says that an expanded version would sit nicely as a short chapter on metrology in CTCE [i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England]. He asks CEB whether he has seen the Vecchi catalogue and comments on some of the lots. He expresses his opposition to a copyright fee for Chester and his disappointment at missing the last SCBI committee meeting. He refers to the "sad news about Harry Norweb" and briefly comments on his recent trip to Southeast Asia. There is an annotation in CEB's hand in the upper right margin that reads "Ans 15/10", but there is no letter of that date from CEB among IS's papers.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Baldwin Crescent, London SE5, on 19 November 1983, welcoming news about the [British] Academy taking on CTCE [i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England] and expressing relief that Henry [Loyn] approves of the historical chapter, which he says was "dreadfully difficult to write". He comments briefly on the plates and apologises in advance for not being to attend the forthcoming BNS meeting.
(d) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, typescript (carbon-copy), two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 27 November 1983, commenting on the Viking 939-954 chapter [of CTCE, i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England], on a new article in the BNJ by two French scholars who are attributing six Charles the Bald coins of Quentovic in the Boulogne Museum to Cuerdale, and on other matters relating to CTCE.
(e) letter from Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated from Ramsbury on 13 December 1983, asking IS to read the BNJ article on the alleged Cuerdale coins, i.e. M. Dhénin and P. Leclercq, 'The coins of Quentovic from the Cuerdale hoard in the Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer', BNJ, vol. 52 (1982), pp. 104-107. CEB wishes to know whether IS shares his doubts and says that he has sent a similar letter to Stewart [Lyon]. If they both agree with him, he proposes to insert a few paragraphs in which he expresses his doubts into his forthcoming BNJ paper on the composition of the Cuerdale hoard and invite comments from the authors.
(f) untitled paper, manuscript (photocopy), three pages on three folios (recto & verso), undated, with the following incipit: "Recently the suggestion has been made that six Carolingian coins form [sic; recto: from] the mint of Quentovic in the Boulogne Museum are from the Cuerdale hoard". There are just over two pages of text plus four brief endnotes. Although unattributed, undated and untitled, the paper forms the latter part of CEB's article on 'The composition of the Cuerdale hoard', BNJ, vol. 53 (1983), pp. 1-6. Because CEB refers explicitly to the additional paragraphs in his letter of 13 December 1983, the draft typescript may be attributed to CEB and dated to before the date of his letter.