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Dear Emmett,

	Many thanks for your letter. I will certainly write to Homer Thompson 
today as you ask.
	The autumn session of study group meetings at London University started 
again yesterday; John Chadwick read a paper on links between apparent 
Mycenaean forms and forms restricted to Homer or Arcado-Cyprian. The 
instigators of the study group, London University's new Institute of 
Classical Studies (I expect they sent you their bulletin), are working 
on a card index of Knossos texts in transcription, which they intend 
eventually to duplicate in page form. As this cannot possibly be as 
accurate as you could make it (and would contain material which you 
would want to have priority in publication), this would be for internal 
use only. I have given them a copy of your published joins, and also 
of the notes you kindly allowed me to make of fragments 5000 onwards. 
To help them put the cards in order, I have typed out a list of the 
surviving tablet numbers in each prefix, as far as I can reconstruct 
them from my records. There are a number of joins where one or other 
term is still missing, and I expect there are a lot of other errors.
I have typed the first page in the possible form we might use as a 
tablet index in our book (which we have now contracted for and must 
supply by the end of May); but it may be that we shall have no room 
for it, and will have to content ourselves with a reference only to 
the position of the tablets which we actually quote and attempt to 
transcribe. I don't really like to ask you to undertake the job of 
checking whether this list corresponds with the one which you presumably 
have in similar form, but if you ever have any really spare time, or if 
it's a mechanical job you could delegate to a stooge, we should of 
course be very grateful to get our records straight. But there's not a 
hurry of any sort.
	We shall probably transcribe about 250-300 tablets in the book, and 
after discussion have decided that we shall have to give them consecutive 
numbers in order for the reader to find his way about. But we propose 
to always refer to them in the form 151=Ep03, with the real numbering 
never omitted, and to repeatedly ask the reader to ignore our numbering 
in future discussions.

Yours,


Michael