52-3) His writing flourished, in the three months he was in direct contact with Sasson he drafted over a dozen poems. (Hibberd, 51)
             Sassoon's contacts in London, placed Owen in the circle of literati he had always hoped to be a part of. But soon he was back on more active duty, leaving the world of H.G. Wells and Robert Ross behind. Rejoining the 5th Reserve Battalion in Scarborough, he was domestic arrangements at the Clarence Gardens Hotel where the officers were quartered. He returned briefly to London and his old acquaintances, for Robert Grave's wedding where he met new people like Charles Scott Moncrieff and Roderick Meiklejohn, influential men of their time in the literary and civil service worlds.
             In March, 1918, he was sent to Ripon, the Northern Command Depot to train. He spent several significant weeks in London, where he worked out a rough outlining of a proposed book. June 4, 1918 he was cleared his medical Board and was back to Scarborough, where he was a fairly senior officer (Letter 627, 331). He was in better shape than ever and wa
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