Poetic Obituaries: For 40 years he chronicled the insights and

observations of Hampstead's literary scene, but never allowed a soul to see his records.

Now the death of the Belsize Park recluse John Rhodes has stirred some of the area's best-known writers and poets to save the enormous, mysterious archive he left behind.

The poet Alan Brownjohn and the best-selling author Deborah Moggach have called on Camden Council to "preserve, preserve, preserve" the thousands of diary entries stored in Mr Rhodes's tiny bedsit flat in Lambolle Road.

from Camden News Journal: Writers call for recluse's work to be preserved

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