4 JULY 1998, Page 38

Oxford's eye

Sir: Bevis Hillier's memory of Parson's Pleasure (Books, June 27), the magazine that I founded in Oxford in 1958, is not cor- rect. Your reviewer must be thinking of a different magazine. Iain Sproat was not one of its editors. I was the only one. I later handed over to Richard Ingrams, who was inspired by the experience to found Private Eye.

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