As well as working as a salesman for paper merchants Edward Saunders & Sons, he wrote for two local Sussex newspapers: the West Sussex Gazette and the Southern Weekly News in which he related his remarkable propensity for discovering 'clean' antiquities.
紙業者Edward Saunders & Sonsのセールスマンとして働くほかに、彼は地元のサセックスの2紙に寄稿した:『West Sussex Gazette』と『Southern Weekly News』、そこで彼は、「きれいな」('clean')古代の遺物を発見することに対する注目すべき性癖を物語った。