Item 1963/1 - Four letters from George Tatler

4 items, paper

Four letters from George Tatler:
(a) manuscript, two pages on one folio, dated from Ranelagh Gardens, Stamford Brook Avenue, [London] W6, on 28 March1963, updating IS on what he has done since they last met. Most of the letter focuses on concerns over a paper, presumably the joint paper that they were preparing on the Montrave hoard for the BNJ. He raises four points in particular, asking IS for his views, and discusses other technical matters in connection with publication. He says that he will spend a week near Bury St Edmunds after exams and wonders whether there is any point to visiting local museums. He also hopes that IS will have time for a chat.
(b) manuscript, two pages on one folio, dated from Ranelagh Gardens, Stamford Brook Avenue, [London] W6, giving only the day of the week, Sunday, but probably datable to shortly before 22 October 1963, since this letter includes a list of dies according to very idiosyncratic scheme and his letter of the 22nd explains the list. GVLT notes that PW [Peter Woodhead?] would like to join their meeting on the 5th [of November] but feels that they will never get through the Knaresborough hoard if he attends, so he proposes a separate three-way meeting before 15 November, since PW will be in Spain for the second half of the month. He says that PW will ask FEJ [F. Elmore Jones] if he can borrow his Hadeleys and ask IS to borrow the CEB [Christopher Blunt] coins, which will put them "in a strong position to cover most of the dies". There is a separate sheet with his list of dies.
(c) manuscript, three pages on two folios, dated from Ranelagh Gardens, Stamford Brook Avenue, [London] W6, on 22 October 1963, thanking IS "for the 15 Hadeleys", in reference to the moneyer of Bury St Edmunds named Robert de Hadeleie, and noting that the coins "open up exciting possibilities". He says that PW [Peter Woodhead?] has 29 coins that he has "come by one more piece", which makes 30 coins and gives 15 obverse dies and 20 reverse. The coins of IS add only one new obverse and three reverse dies. He thinks that he will have recorded nearly every die once he has been to the British Museum to identify their early Bury dies. He explains his system for listing the dies and admires IS's VIIa from London as "perhaps that nicest [coin that he] has ever seen". He looks forward to his meeting with IS on 5 November, noting that they will have "the Berwicks from Baldwin's, John Malcolm's coins and the Knaresborough hoard to go through".
(d) manuscript, three pages on two folios, undated, focusing on the chronology of the early Edwardian coins.