Ah, ha! This is the letter I was remembering.
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Originally Posted by Letter #178
By the way, there is no need to alter 'Mr' to Professor. In proper Oxford tradition professor is not a title of address - or was not, though the habit has drifted in from places where 'professors' are powerful little domestic potentates.
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Evidently he did use the designation on his stationery, as evidenced by Letter #112, though I will not speculate on his status as a domestic potentate!
Sorry davem, that I missed the earlier references to Miss Honeybourne. And I'm feeling quite crippled here at work as the fiendish filtering software keeps me from opening the most tempting links.
