About a hundred dossiers, postmarked from the London sorting office in Mount Pleasant, were sent, personally addressed by hand, to figures in Oxford University, repeating and developing some of the material [John] Walsh had used, and including photocopies from the book Walsh had mentioned as "a study of priapic academics called The Lecherous Professor". It doesn't sound like a very sober tome, does it?At this point it would have been easy for [Ruth] Padel to dissociate herself both from her old and close friend Walsh's article and from the anonymous dossier.
She could have said that none of these issues from Walcott's past had any bearing on the campaign, and she was appalled that they had been raised. But she did not say this.
from James Fenton: London Evening Standard: The hounding of a Nobel poet has shamed Oxford
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