Forgive my tardiness in replying to Michael Walters’ strange letter (Stage Talk, December 15, page 7) questioning my use of “fulsome” in relation to your obituary of Sir Jimmy Savile.
I don’t know what dictionary Mr Walters possesses but my Webster’s defines fulsome as “generous in amount, extent, or spirit” and this certainly applied to Michael Quinn’s full page tribute to Sir Jim, and to the man himself.
In my original letter I made it very clear that I greatly admired Jimmy, having assisted with some of his fundraising efforts for Barnardo’s, and experienced his kindness to me and so many others.
Is it really conceivable that I would have thought of the words “gross; disgusting by excess” as the right ones to sum up my feelings?
I am sorry that Mr. Walters’ traumatic experience of “many years ago” caused him to so badly misunderstand me but wish him well for 2012 which has just got off to great start with events in London and Portsmouth marking the bicentenary of another of my heroes, Charles Dickens.
David J Savage
The Green
South Ockendon
Essex
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