 At about the time he left the army, Alfred Gissing assumed his father's posthumous interests from Algernon Gissing, and he went to live at Fernleigh, St Mark's Avenue, Leeds, Yorkshire, which had been Margaret and Ellen Gissing's home.He began to develop a collected edition of his father's works and to correspond with publishers and collectors as literary executor.From 1924 until 1927, he lived in Richmond, Surrey.