> suitable letter of credit for me.
>
> Claudine, Barcelona.
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+From Alexios to Claudine, December 1218
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+>Salutations and greetings to Claudine of Mercere from Doctor Alexios Kaloethes.
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+>My grateful thanks for your efforts on my behalf. I am deeply grateful.
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+>I have consulted with the Master of the Schola and he is willing to authorise up to 30 pounds for the lot of books in Barcelona. If you can secure them for any sum under this, I would be most grateful. If necessary, I will personally advance up to 10 pounds in addition to this if you are able to secure a viewing of the books and they are not in such condition that we could not properly restore them within the Schola.
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+>The Venetian trove, I am sorry to say is beyond our means and as such I do not advise attempting it. I do intend to advise my pater of it and hope that he will be interested and potentially will share any interesting texts with us. If you hear anything more of it or anything that might assist him in negotiations, I would be grateful if you would correspond with him, Doctor Georgios Commenes of the House Ex Miscellanea at the University of Bologna.
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+>Suitable letters of credit are attached, and I remain at your service.
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+From Alexios to Georgios, December 1218
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+> To his revered pater, Georgios of Bologna, Alexios sends his greetings and respects.
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+> I have been informed of a large collection of looted books that may be from our once fair, despoiled city. These will be for purchase in Venice in January. All I currently know is that the sale is of "a very large number of scrolls of Greek writing" with a reserve price of two hundred pounds.
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+>These are sadly beyond my purse at present but I thought you would wish to know and perhaps investigate yourself. While I do not know what precisely is there, Bologna is not so far from Venice that it seems a bad idea to at least send Matthias to take a look.
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+>In other news, I am nearly ready to try the project I told you about in my last letter. The question of whether the wall should be fixed or a new wall constructed continues to perplex me but I suspect that until I can actually get down there to see, I will not make my mind up finally.
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+>*here follows several pages of news and philosophical musings.*
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+>As ever, pater, I remain your affectionate colleague and student.
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+From Alexios to Archmage Mathieus, January 1218
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+>To the Archmage Mathieus of Paris, Alexios Kaloethes of the Schola Pythagoranis sends respectful greetings.
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+>Thank you for your kind letter, confirming your invitation to stay and study in your covenant. I wondered if I might test the bounds of your courtesy and ask if rather than guest with you for six months, I might instead study twice in your library for the period of one season each time.
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+>I hope and trust that this would not be of inconvenience to you and remain your humble servant.
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