Item 5 - Autograph letter, signed, to J. R. Tanner from Edward Armstrong, Oxford

Is anxious about eyesight which, due to poor advice, has not recovered. Has been told he has cataracts but one eye should hold out. Has started 'The Age of Dante' but his reading is slow. Is worried about the chapters on the Popes of the fifteenth century and the Medicis. Has good notes concerning the Popes but the Medicis he is out of touch with. Suggests three historians, Mrs Ady, Mrs Lernor and Mr Roth, who could write the chapter on the Medici's.