Betjeman love letter is horrid hoax

Anonymous Patron writes “From the:Times Online. One regret, Sir John Betjeman once said, was that he had not had enough sex. So the late poet laureate’s biographer could be forgiven the thrill of discovery he felt when someone sent him a passionate love letter supposedly written by Betjeman to a mistress.
Now, however, it turns out that the poet, born 100 years ago tomorrow, never wrote the letter. Instead, AN Wilson, the biographer, admitted this weekend he had fallen victim to an elaborate hoax.”

August 31, 2006 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Brian says:
    September 1, 2006 at 2:22 am

    The best part of the story …
    Is this:

    Close study of the letter, however, shows that the capital letters at the beginning of each sentence spell out a message: “AN Wilson is a shit”.

    Pwnd!

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