Ioannes Tzetzes sent three letters to Joseph, hegoumenos of the Pantokrator monastery. In the first, he wrote to thank Joseph for some sweet-smelling gift which was incomparably better than anything produced in Arabia. The second referred to their first meeting: he described it in terms of extreme eulogy of the hegoumenos. The third referred to a promise by Joseph to repair all the paths around the monastery, at which Tzetzes had gratefully told all his friends. Joseph had largely fulfilled the promise, but had not succeeded with the path to the monks' cells. Tzetzes thus was proved a liar: Joseph should correct this by completing the last path