 Hastings was known to have had difficult working relationships with some of these young writers he employed.Betjeman's relationship with Hastings was largely amicable, though at times, as Hasting's "Telegraph" obituary states, "Betjeman was openly impatient of the petty rules imposed by the management" and nicknamed him "Old Obscurity".Although rarely contributing articles, he is known to have written several, under the pseudonym Ivor de Wolfe.