LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE "VIA SACRA."
ITo THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'1
SIR,—I have just been reading an article in your last issue about the ia Sacra. The name, the whole idea, came from my son, the late Second Lieutenant A. D. Gillespie, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland High- landers. He wrote about it to Mr. Reginald Smith, also to the Head- Master of Winchester, in June, 1915. It was published in the Wykehamist two months ago, and later in the Oxford Magazine, where probably the Morning Pod saw it. Among my son's letters is one from Mr. R. Smith, of July 7th, 1915, in which he says he has shown "A. D. (l's" letter about the Via Sacra to Mr. St. Loe Strachey, who was very much taken up with the idea, and he told my son he expected there would be an article about it in the Spectator. Will you please put this right in your next issue The idea came entirely from my dear lad, and I ask you to admit this, and to quote his own words about it, which no one
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