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Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated July, 19th 1906 - A 4 pp. letter, discussing whether Varro's book ('Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum libri XLI') is a good source for the belief that Romans believed in divine marriage, and discussing other sources for the belief; mentions [Georg] Wissowa as an authority on Roman religion.

60 Great Barkgate St., Aberystwyth - Discusses the Vestals as virgins, counter to Wissowa's theory they were wives, and another that they were wives of the fire-God; discusses the Argei, arguing that the puppets were not likely old men, but adding that Tiber was not to be trifled with; mentions Deubner's objection to the vegetation theory; discusses temporary kings, is doubtful of the existence of a divine king in Italy; finds barbarian parallels to early Roman ways in Africa and wonders if there is truth to Sergi's theory of migration; has written an article correcting a source for the tale of a man sacrificed to Iuppiter Latiaris, agrees with Geffcken that it is 'what Why-Why would call bosh-bosh'.

Bayerische Staats-Bibliothek - The Cod.lat.8122 containing Ovid's 'Fasti' comes from the Benedictine abbey Mallersdorf in Lower Bavaria and is in the manuscript department of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and they can make rotographs of it; Professor Wissowa is not in Munich but in Halle.