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June 23, 1950.                     13. Canterbury Road, Oxford

Dear Dr. Bennett, 

    Your letter of 20 June came in today. I am most grateful to you for your most generous offer to help to establish the concordance of the Museum Register numeration of the Knossian tablets at Candia, with the numbers in EvansŐs hand list and the second volume of Scripta Minoa; and it will be the greatest satisfaction to me if it is possible to avail myself of it. I have not heard from Dr. Blegen, but please impress to him in advance my appreciation of his offer of help.
    To do what is required should not take more than four or five weeks and might take less. My grounds for this estimate is that I myself put EvansŐs numbers onto the line blocks of EvansŐs transcripts which belong in the Clarendon Press. I worked about six hours a day, seven days a week. There are about 1600 tablets, so I dealt with 10 or 12 an hour on an average. All that is necessary is to look up the sign groups on any tablet in my Vocabulary and note their reference-number there onto the tablet, at the same time noting the Register number (the only numbering actually on the tablets) on a file of transcripts which I can supply, bearing Evans’ numbers.
    There are only two difficulties. The first is that though

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the Clarendon Press has had the fair copy of my Vocabulary for over two years, I have no lithograph proof of it yet. I am asking for news of it, and will let you know, in a day or two, how soon I may expect to have proofs. The only other copy of the Vocabulary in my possession is my own rough copy with many corrections and queries from Alice Kober; and I fear it would be very difficult to use.
    The second complication is that I have already asked the Director of the Candia museum to invite Miss Hapne Xenaki (sp?), who has already published the few tablets which have strayed into the private collection of Dr. Giamalakis, the leading surgeon of Candia, to do this collation, as soon as I can provide her with the Vocabulary and transcripts. But I am sure that (if indeed she accepts my invitation) she would be most grateful for your advice and supervision, and would do anything she undertake, under your general direction. This would be a great economy of your time, and you would of course have access to the tablets and to her collation.
    I am sure that Mr. and. Mrs. de Jong at the Villa Ariadne at Knossos will make you very welcome there, if it suits you to make your headquarters there. It is only about 4 miles from Candia.
    These are the principal facts in the affair, and I will keep you informed as to the developments With my best thanks to dr. Blegen and yourself for this most kind offer of help, I am 
                    Yours Sincerely, John L. Myers