 During World War II several of his students (including Alec Naylor Dakin) worked on code breaking at Bletchley Park.Other students include Ricardo Caminos, Warren Royal Dawson, Peter Lewis Shinnie, Paul E. Kahle and T. G. H. James.Agatha Christie's 1944 detective novel "Death Comes as the End," set in Thebes in the Middle Kingdom, is based on a series of letters that he translated.