47 Highpoint, 
North Hill, 
Highgate, 
LONDON, N.6.

11 November 1950.


Dear Bennett,

	Thank you for your letter, and for the promise of your AJA 
article.
	The addresses which you asked for are as follows:-
Prof. Bedvrich Hrozny, PRAHA, Klidná 7.

Prof. Dr. Helmuth Th. Bossert, ISTANBUL-TOPHANE, Kromit Apart., 
	Tavuk Ucmak Sokagi 8.

G. Pugliese Carratelli, Viale St' Anna all' Arenella 1, Vomero, NAPOLI.

Dr. Ernst Grumach, BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 4, Schlüterstrasse 53 (British 
Sector).

Prof. Fritz Schachermeyr, GRAZ, Peinlichgasse 15, Austria (British Zone).

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	I'm also enclosing a couple of pages of afterthought to Section 3
of my bulletin contribution, which I jotted down a few months ago, and 
which I've only sent to one or two people. The Lemnos inscription is 
important, I think, as general background to the attack on Minoan, and 
it is just possible that some corroboration for noun and verbal forms 
found there might one day be revealed in the Linear B stuff. Pallottino, 
to whom I sent a copy, seems to approve in general, saying that the 
treatment was 'very clear and methodical'; but he has, I know, a feeling 
that the connection between Lemnos and Etruria is 'within the framework 
of a more general community of substratum rather than an evidence of any 
movement of peoples within historical times', and this has so far made 
him chary of admitting that his knowledge of Etruscan could be of any 
specific use in the Aegean problem. But we're probably getting him round 
gradually. The Eteocyprian part is a bit more fanciful, and is chiefly 
directed at the Anatolian chaps, who will I hope take up the problem 
again: I originally wrote this couple of pages for some new magazine of 
Bossert's which is coming out this year, and which is in honour of his 
60th birthday.

	I'm glad you had a successful summer, and feel much happier now
you have in existence a reliable transcript of the Linear B material
which is not endangered by possible inaccuracies of Evans' or Mires' 
nor by the risk of destruction of the originals.
	I should very much like to subscribe to a copy of the Pylos material
when it comes out, though it may be difficult to stick to a 'watching 
brief' and resist the temptation to get drawn into serious work on it!

Yours,

Michael Ventris