 In early 1960, Thelma Afford endeavoured to obtain a Commonwealth Literary Fund grant to support posthumous publication of a book of Max Afford's stage plays.Tom Inglis Moore, who was in charge of the negotiation of its guarantee, was from 1945 to 1971 a member of the Fund's advisory board.He championed the cause of hundreds of authors and numerous literary journals, and acted as an advocate for left-wing writers in the 1950s.