Item 1992/1 - Two letters from Michael Metcalf

2 items, paper

Two letters from Michael Metcalf:
(a) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 30 June 1992, congratulating IS on his elevation to the House of Lords, thanking him for the NC offprint, and appraising him of progress on his book.
(b) manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 20 July 1992, sending an article on "Homotypies" by Michel Dhenin, "to save [IS] chasing it". The bulk of the letter deals with a hoard from the Great St Bernard Pass. The son of the dealer who had the coins, i.e. Simonetta (sic; recto: Simonetti) [of Florence], donated the Italian part of the hoard to the Ashmolean but believes that his father sold the English and Scottish element at auction and that they were bought by a British museum. The editor of the Rivista Italiana di Numismatica asked MM to publish the hoard, which consisted mainly in coins of Savoy, but he is trying to track down the British coins and asks IS whether he knows anything about it, as he has drawn a blank. MM mentions an account of the hoard in NCirc. 1949, which he originally attached to the letter (but is no longer with it).