It’s taken 40 years and but it seems the writing world is finally realising what it lost when the brandy and the bailiffs sent Julian Maclaren-Ross to an early grave. Thanks mainly to the sterling efforts of Paul Willetts and Virginia Ironside, the writer is undergoing a rehabilitation with a new collection of his letters following in the wake of his collected memoirs, short stories and the biography Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia.
“Look I’m in a mess. Can’t pay the bill, danger of being kicked out, clothes etc seized… Can you lend me 15. If you can, will save life. Will repay without fail from BBC cheque. More money in by then….Hope you liked my review of you in TLS. Got book specially…No more now: pen running out.”
See also, “I had to go absent”, The Sage of Soho, Lee Rourke on the original Sohemian, Of Love and Hunger.
Picture courtesy of www.julianmaclaren-ross.co.uk.
First posted: Tuesday, July 1st, 2008.
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