My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles (1967)
“The success of The Loom of Youth placed me at the age of twenty in a position that most writers do not reach till they are thirty. My opposite numbers at the Savage were all several years my senior. Ralph Straus, the first professional writer to become a personal friend of mine, was at least twenty years older than myself.
I met him first in March 1917, through Ian Mackenzie, a fellow cadet at Sandhurst who died of Spanish flu on Armistice night. He might have been a considerable poet had fate ...spared him. Between us there had sprang up one of those quick eager friendships that are only possible between two young men of high ambitions. We were without rivalry and jealousy as we declaimed our poems to one another, knowing there were ample kingdoms for each to conquer. We shared everything; not without boastfulness we produced our separate friends. Gilbert Cannan and S. P. B. Mais were my contributions, Harold Monro and Ralph Straus were his.
There was an outbreak of mumps that spring at Sandhurst and the college closed down for three weeks.MoreLess
I met him first in March 1917, through Ian Mackenzie, a fellow cadet at Sandhurst who died of Spanish flu on Armistice night. He might have been a considerable poet had fate ...spared him. Between us there had sprang up one of those quick eager friendships that are only possible between two young men of high ambitions. We were without rivalry and jealousy as we declaimed our poems to one another, knowing there were ample kingdoms for each to conquer. We shared everything; not without boastfulness we produced our separate friends. Gilbert Cannan and S. P. B. Mais were my contributions, Harold Monro and Ralph Straus were his.
There was an outbreak of mumps that spring at Sandhurst and the college closed down for three weeks.MoreLess
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