The Letters of Mercurius Author:Mercurious Oxoniensis, Harvard University Press Who is Mercurius Oxoniensis?
The first of his brilliantly witty letters mysteriously appeared, apparently without the authority of the writer, in the Spectator towards the end of 1968. Their candid, penetrating and caustic commentary on personalities and events (considered by some to verge on indiscretion) indicate inside information and sources.