The Writer's Life
Oct.20, 1945
“I had a pleasant stay in England. Didn’t do a lot but enjoyed the visit that’s the main thing. I had a lot of fun with Alma’s 5 year old boy. He sure talks a blue streak and when he talks one would almost think he was a speaking dictionary. He has a terrific vocabulary, 5 and 6 syllable words and he knows how to use them correctly.”
(Extract from a letter from a serviceman to his wife in Canada after being billeted at the home of Jack and Alma Ellis, Royston's parents, at 36 Deancroft Road, Eastcote, Pinner, Middlesex, England, where this photo of the young existentialst in black beret was taken.)
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King of the Beatniks,
River Thames, London, 1959
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