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                    February 20, 1951        13. Canterbury Rd. Oxford.


    Dear Dr. Bennett,
        Many thanks for your letter of 12 February.
    I have a memorandum of Evans: - ÔNos 269-309 and Nos. 310-328 (??): minos fragments of tablets or(?) above: cuirass, chariot, horse. These numbers are therefore already included in his final numeration, but not drawn or individually deciphered.  That is why they bear red numbers.  They have been (as you say) omitted from SM lists and replace by others? No. 267ff are saffron tablets; No. 854 is deciphered as Ôother numbered fragments from Chariot-Tablet RoomÕ.
    Probably some of them will turn out to be parts of tablets bearing other numbers.  But as they bear EvansÕ numbers I suggest that their numbers be retained, and (gathered?) either in square brackets or with an asterisk.
    The tablets I am most anxious to include in SM II are those

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    Which do not bear Evans numbers, and should be considered as additions to his definition list.  They may all turn out to bear duplicate numbers like 265-325.  But I may want fragments containing sign graphs or parts of sign graphs, which should be included in the vocabulary or SM II. Fragments with commodity-signs or numerals are less important; though they must of course be taken into account by anyone who can connect them with fragments containing sign graphs.
    At a rough count there are 158 Candia numbers which are not in Evans list; but of these 56 (?) the duplicated numbers 26q.325 (and some of these may be the numbers within their limits which are in the Candia list (e.g. Evan 295=H715; 291=H720.)) So there are about 100 of which I have as yet no transcript or description.
    As soon as I have verified the (pound) rate of exchange, I will put the amount of the expenses to your account at BlackwellÕs.
    
    With all good wishes, yours sincerely, 
                John L Myres