Quite a few years ago, I began making enquiries about the location of Lawrence Stone's papers. My initial overtures were to the H-Albion site and did not prove very productive. It appeared that much of his correspondence was left in the office of the Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton and was disposed of by his successor. His daughter, herself a distinguished academic, did not respond when I sent her an e-mail and other colleagues of his - e.g. Ted Rabb - were unable to help me. I subsequently learnt that Stone had destroyed much of his collection of papers leaving later scholars to reconstruct his views from his articles, books and other publications. However, a casual search on-line this morning revealed that the archives of King's College, Cambridge hold a very small group of nine letters between John Saltmarsh and Stone from the 1950s and early-1960s (GBR/027/JS/3/9). I suspect that there must be other such letters held by the descendants or literary e...