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            March 17, 1951                13. Canterbury Road. Oxford

Dear Dr. Bennett,

        I am delighted to receive your Preliminary Transcription of the Pylos Tablets, and congratulate you on its appearance.  I will empress my thanks and welcome more fully later. This note is my only to acknowledge itÕs arrival , and to clear up one point of organization. 
    As you know from Miss KoberÕs hectagraphed Inventory of the Linear B Tablets from Knossos, she employed a system of numeration which is very like yours.  She also laid great stress on leaving class K d - g blank as being Ôreserved for tablets from PylosÕ.  I assumed without further enquiry that this was by arrangement with Dr. Blegen and yourself. I made considerable alterations in page-proof (as this numeration

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Of class K only reached me after her original inventory had been printed; and I made what seemed the necessary reference to Ôreservation for tablets for PylosÕ. Now I find in your Preliminary Transcriptions that neither is your class K related to the K class reserved by Miss Kober, nor (which is more likely to cause confusion later) is any account taken, in your numeration, of the c.1600 numbers assigned to the tablets from Knossos. 
    I shall of course delete my reference to tablets from Pylos-fortunately this can still be done; and shall insert a warning that a similar system of classification is used at Pylos, but that the classes are not the same, and that the individual numerals overlap.  I dont see how I can do more, as Miss KoberÕs

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Insistence completely misled me as to the character of the classification at Pylos, and the relation between the Knossian and the Pylian lists. 

    I cannot now put the clock back by cancelling Miss Kober’s classification of the tablets from Knossos, 1) because she has long ago circulated it (with my concurrence) to about a dozen colleges and 2) because I have inserted her classification numbers, side by side with the Evans numbers, in the lithograph-plates of the transcripts, most of which have been passed for lithography for some weeks, and are pebbles on the stones by this time. 
    I fear that hereafter people will have to specify, in using these classification numbers, whether they are quoting a tablet from Knossos or from Pylos.  And I can only hope that as you have had the Knossos numerals before you for a good while, and have not made 

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any comment on these inconveniences, that you may have regarded them as more negligible than they seem at first sight to me.
    With all good wishes, yours sincerely,
    John L Myres