Stung
Sir: We, the undersigned, have read with disgust and indignation the paragraph in your gossip column "Will Waspe" (March 8) concerning our tutor, Jane Glover, and would like to feint out that the information contained in it is completely incorrect. Throughout the whole time that she was rehearsing Orfeo and throughout the week of its production, Miss Glover
never allowed the pressures that this demanding enterprise obviously put on her to interfere with her duties as our tutor. Our tutorials were all of the prescribed length and were full of the "enthusiasm and efficiency" that distinguished her conducting, as your discerning critic so rightly observed. We hope that you will spare Miss Glover and the college further embarrassment by printing this letter from us both, and that of her other pupil Mr Penny. We three are the only pupils who Miss Glover is responsible for teaching in the university.
Margaret Birley Amanda Goldman St Hugh's College, Oxford Sir: I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms about your article concerning Jane Glover. I am one of only three pupils that Miss Glover takes and have no complaints at all to make. That she has been giving her pupils less than the proper amount of time is manifestly untrue as is the fact that she has been over-tired to the point of being sharp with her tongue.
You give the impression that she takes a vast number of pupils and thus has been over-stretched in her work on Orfeo. This is entirely untrue and I suggest that in future you should check your facts and seek a true representation of Miss Glover's activities before printing such a damaging article.
John Penny Pembroke College, Oxford
We are happy to print the letters from Miss Glover's three pupils, so that none of them shall continue to be suspected of being 'Will Waspe' — Editor, The Spectator
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