Alex Lawson (who signs most of his letters "Alexis," after St. Alexis, who "became a holy beggar after having run from home rather than marry") was a close friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson. From B.D.:"Lawson, who died in 1966, was in 1926 a curate at St. Paul's in Oxford, a notably high Anglican church, famous for its processions." Lawson may have had a homosexual relationship with the vicar at St. Paul's - Roger Wodehouse, cousin of P.G. Wodehouse; AL shared Hedley Hope-Nicholson's interest in religion, churches, and shrines.