19 North End , London NW3 
1 December 1953

Dear Bennett,

	Here is a copy of the December number of ANTIQUITY, which is rather 
full of scripts of one kind and another. Please excuse what may be 
excessive optimism in Chadwick's and my articles, which don't contain 
anything new to you. But you may be interested to see the new Enkomi 
tablet, whose script doesn't seem very closely allied to Linear B. I 
read about Schaeffer's new Ugarit Cypro-Minoan tablet the other day, 
but haven't seen a picture yet: I hope it doesn't throw the signary 
out too much.
	I expect you've had a copy of Miss Henle's book. I've just finished 
for JHS 1954 a combined review of it and your Linear B Index. It was 
only about hers that one could says anything critical, certainly: an 
interesting experiment, but some of her original assumptions on spelling 
method and on the state of the language seem as curious as some of our 
results.
	I'm not making very good progress with my "Glossary", which I hoped
to have finished by now; but I hope to have it written out in another 
10 days, and with a week more photostatting, a copy should be with you 
by Christmas. Just how useful it will be remains to be seen. Several 
other people are taking up what at the moment is rather a guessing game: 
the most useful is probably Palmer, professor of Classical philology at 
Oxford, whom I had lunch with last week.
	If you have any time to spare (which may be a callous assumption!),
would it be possible to what Chadwick's and my appetite with a dozen or 
so confidential transcripts of longer new-formulae tablets, say in the
E- series? When the Glossary's finished, any new work on the old tablets 
will seem a bit unrealistic on their own.
	I've been interested in the last few days in our old friend _-_-_-_-_ ,	 
whom I think we were probably quite wrong to have included among the 
names of trades and occupations. Do any new tablets show it again in 
what seems to be a "totalling-" formula?

	With best wishes,


		Michael Ventris



8 December

PS: Many thanks for your excellent Christmas Card!
The Glossary has gone to be photostatted today.