  In 1936, the year following his graduation, Prior married. It was a whirlwind romance. In a letter written at the beginning of June 1936, he said he was ‘taking an interest in a rather desperate &amp; in some ways rather dangerous little friend’, adding that he had been solemnly advised ‘not to fall in love’ with her. The rather dangerous Clare Hunter, an up-and-coming freelance reporter for the Otago Daily Times, was a feminist and free thinker. She encouraged Prior in what he called his ‘innate Bohemianism’. Before July was out, the two were planning to ‘get quietly married at the end of the year’, wrote Prior. This must soon have seemed too long a wait, for they wed the very next month. (There is a thumbnail biography of Hunter in Grimshaw (2018).)