6 MARCH 1971, page 12

Oxford And Cambridge Letters

On unions and usurpers GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS, Your ingeniose contrivance of a pigeon- post has now caught on marvellously, and here in Oxon our skies are dark with pigeons......

Good Brother Londiniensis,

Your trusty pigeon did lighten upon my table, vox coelo, whilst I was a-breakfasting, and delivered itself safely of your letter, which in my appetite did speedily displace the......