Letters written by Eileen Power to Munia Postan while he was her research student at the London School of Economics [most of the letters do not give a year but they would appear to date from 1924 to 1926]. 7 letters, chiefly addressed from 20 Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1, as follows:
25 June: EEP wishes to see MP concerning a course of lectures which he is to give 'at the School next year'. 'I would ask you to supper, only I've lent my housekeeper to my next door neighbour - and if I cooked I should poison you.';
26 July (addressed from Girton College): congratulations on MP's 'extremely good second' in his B.Sc. examination and looking forward to having him do 'research secretarial work' for her;
8 July: short note concerning some practical details and good wishes for a holiday;
26 September: 'I should like to talk a lot of things over with you', including a suggestion of collaboration with a Professor Gray, also adjudication of MP's thesis (part of letter missing);
13 July 1926: concerns the possibility of MP applying for a 'research librarianship vacant at the Institute' and EEP's plans for a 'central Asia journey' (also ts extract from same with pencilled note [in the hand of Cynthia Postan?] concerning the likely difficulty of accomplishing this journey in the prevailing conditions of anarchy and civil war);
21 August (addressed from Broad How, Patterdale, Penrith), concerning the situation 'in regard to the Maghfeld register' [a document at the Public Record Office which EEP and MP intended to publish], and a debate as to who discovered it first and who should publish it, either EEP/MP, Dr Hall or Professor Manly - 'ours is the prior claim: moreover I agree with you that the technical interest of the ledger from the point of view of finance and trade will escape them, whereas the allusions to Chaucer and his circle are easy enough for us trace and comment upon. On the other hand they have made a public announcement - and - found the Chaucer passage - ' etc.
Also ms note, no date [in the hand of Cynthia Postan?] of an extract from the LSE magazine, November 1983, p 8, from 'My LSE 1916-1926' by Eveline M Burns: 'Incidentally, it was Eileen Power (and not others who have been given the credit) who asserted that LSE was the building on which the concrete never set'.