  It was no doubt with mixed feelings that he returned to New Zealand. After twelve months of logical companionship on a grand scale, life at Canterbury was a lonely prospect. Seething with enthusiasm for logic, he threw himself once more into a massive correspondence, but it could no longer satisfy him. Prior pined. When the offer arrived of a newly established second chair at the University of Manchester, he snatched it up. The Priors left New Zealand again in December 1958.