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Woluwe St Pierre, 52 avenue Parmentier - Due to the negligence of the Université de Bruxelles, he has only received 2 of the 5 volumes of the 'Fasti'; thanks him for his kind dedication of the copy; he will announce the edition at the next meeting of the Société pour le progress d'études historiques et philologiques, and will review it in 'Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire'; he showed the volumes to M. Peeters, who was hoping for a copy, but after seeing the five magnificent volumes, he no longer dares to hope.

chambre 29, 5 Boulevard Jourday, 6, Paris (XIVe). Dated the 3rd May 1930 - Is sorry to have missed them in Paris; will write a review [of the Ovid Fasti] in 'Revue des Etudes Latines' and the new Belgian periodical, 'Humanities'.

Woluwe, St Pierre - Sends notes on two manuscripts of Ovid's 'Fasti' at the Musée Plantin-Moretus [present], and asks for Noémi Renan's address; hopes Madame Frazer is well; would like to receive a copy of 'Folklore dans l'Ancien Testament'; guesses that the source of the Bruxelles ms. has 32 verses per page, and wonders if M. Peeters has reached the same conclusion. Accompanied by 4 pages of notes on the manuscripts and the envelope.

Woluwe, St Pierre, 52 avenue Parmentier - Has just read E. H. Alton's articles in 'Hermathena' ['The Mediaeval Commentators on Ovid's "Fasti"' and 'The Zulichemianus, Mazarinianus, and Other Mss. of the "Fasti" of Ovid'], discusses the copyists and dates of the manuscripts, including his view that the Bruxelles MS is earlier than Alton believes; M. Peeters is discouraged and sick, was injured in the war, has been told to stop smoking, has obtained a scholarship to study at the University of California at Berkeley, has taken against Alton's position, though Alton has done more research; Kugener regrets that he did not know of the articles before as the article wasn’t shared; Alton hopes to publish his edition at the end of the year; Krugener has finished looking at two manuscripts of the 'Fasti' at Anvers and has written an article for M. Sabbe; hopes Lady Frazer has recovered from influenza and hopes that she will send the books she has promised him; for his part he is still attempting to get the badge [for l’Ordre de Léopold?] that he was promised.

Woluwe, St Pierre, 52 avenue Parmentier - Is pleased to learn that the 'Fasti' will appear soon, is looking forward to reading it with his students; a letter from Heinsius to Gevartius was published last year by Prims in 'Le Compas d'Or' and he transcribes it for Frazer, in a discussion of the dating of the Codex Zulichemianus and its relationship to the Bruxelles MS; the article on this by Peeters will not appear, and Kugener has been given the task of writing it, but he has other articles at the moment; Peeters has returned from Chicago, and now speaks English with a nasal accent; Peeters has received a grant from la Fondation Universitaire to go to Paris, and will be there in October.

Woluwe, St Pierre - Bruxelles, 52 avenue Parmentier - Is writing an article for the 'Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire' related to Frazer's edition of the 'Fasti' and will recount the curious history of the Bruxelles ms., believes the Codex Zulichemianus was made after the Bruxelles ms. (which he refers to as the old Gemblecensis and uses the letter 'G' for rather than 'X'); Peeters proposes a review of the 'Fasti' and gives his address in Paris; Kugener's students have been reading the 'Fasti' and admire it. Accompanied by the envelope.

Brussels - He was not aware of Alton's articles as the 'Hermathena' is not to be found in Brussels; Alton was at the Royal Library at the same time as Peeters and asking for the same MS but Peeters was never told of this; he will wait to publish until Alton's article has appeared. Accompanied by Peeters' calling card and the envelope.

From the official periodical of the 'Fédération de l'enseignement moyen officiel', a four page printed item with an MS presentation note on the front cover.

Three bound volumes carrying collations of Ovid Fasti MSS, in Frazer’s hand: Volume A contains two collations for Bruxellensis 5369 (or MS X) from the Bibliothèque Royale, Bruxelles, accompanied by notes on another collator, Félix Peeters and his bibliography; it also contains a collation of the Codex Mazarinianus in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, no. 7992; with some additional pages of notes of accounts, lists of items in storage and at Barclay’s bank, a list of people to whom [unidentified] verses were sent, and a short collation of the Antwerp MS.

Volume B contains collations of three Ovid Fasti MSS, one in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich: the Codex Mallersdorfiensis sive Monacensis Lat. 8122, and two in the Vatican Library: the Codex Reginensis sive Petavianus, Vaticanus 1709 and the beginning of the Codex Ursinianus sive Vaticanus 3262, which continues in Volume C, followed by the Codex Oxoniensis sive Mazarinianus Auct. F. 4. 25. Volume C also includes a few pages of notes, including contact information of librarians who provided photographs of the manuscripts, and a list of books left in Paris in April 1929.

chambre 29, 5 Boulevard Jourdan, 5, Paris (XIVe) - Is sorry to have missed them in Paris; will write a review [of the Ovid Fasti] in 'Revue des Etudes Latines' and the new Belgian periodical, 'Humanities'. Envelope docketed in Frazer's hand 'as to Ovid, Fasti'.