Item 1962/1 - Two letters of Christopher Blunt in reply to letters of Ian Stewart

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JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/BLUNTC/1962/1

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Two letters of Christopher Blunt in reply to letters of Ian Stewart

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  • 1962 (Creation)

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Two letters of Christopher Blunt in reply to letters of Ian Stewart:
(a) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 1 March [1962], referring to the attached copy of [Derek] Allen's monograph and apologising for the condition of the cover. IS thanks CEB for Trewhiddle, presumably in reference to material or publications on the Trewhiddle (Cornwall) hoard of Anglo-Saxon pennies, found 1774; he also thanks CEB for an Anglo-Saxon dictionary and the loan of other books, and he asks to borrow to CEB's copy of vol. I of Engel and Serrure.
(b) letter of Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 4 March 1962, in reply to the preceding letter of Ian Stewart, thanking IS for the Derek Allen monograph and consenting to lend him the Engel & Serrure volume. He says that IS and Stewart [Lyon] have drawn his attention to a question regarding the origin of the so-called "Cuthred" coins between either Mercia and Kent. He states that they fit better in the former and that "the moneyer must surely be EADCAR, explaining some of the difficulties in reading the signature on the coins. He agrees that they have made good progress on Mercia 820-840 and can explain their differences of opinion in a footnote. There is a postscript about ĐES [in the inscription ĐES MONETA] referring to the [money of the] king, but he regards it as the best solution thus far conceived and preferable to reading ĐES as a personal name.
(c) letter from Ian Stewart to Christopher Blunt, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 8 March 1962, instructing CEB to keep the [Derek] Allen monograph as ha owns the Iron Age publication in which it originally appeared. IS says that he has been discussing the 820s with CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon] and they are happy dissociate the "Cuthred" from Kent and assign it to Mercia / East Anglia. He also says that he will give [notes about?] the Copenhagen Viking series to CEB at the next BNS meeting and expresses regret that "Galster's work is wasted" in the interest of reducing the text to "minimum essentials". IS explains his "mistrust of [the] ĐES M[ONETA]" interpretation but allows that it is "perhaps preferable to a moneyer's name". He discusses a "Pendred", favouring its interpretation as a presentation piece and looking forward to CEB's paper on it. In a footnote, he wonders "Bruun 1920" means.
(d) letter of Christopher Blunt to Ian Stewart, manuscript, one folio (recto & verso), dated 10 March 1962, in reply to the preceding letter of Ian Stewart, thanking IS for allowing him to keep the Derek Allen monograph and giving his impressions after seeing the cleaned "Cuthred" at the BM. He acknowledges a previous misreading of the inscription but still dislikes the coin in the Kentish series, preferring East Anglia. There is further discussion of ĐES MONETA and Pendred, and he says that "Bruun 1920" is in reference "to a parcel of coins acquired by Bruun in that year, as distinct from the Bruun gift of 1928".

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