 In 1977 Blythe inherited Bottengoms Farm from Nash, who had bought the Elizabethan yeoman's house in 1944.He later published a book, "First Friends" (1999), based on a trunk of letters he found in the house that recorded the friendship between the Nash brothers, John's future wife, Christine Külenthal, and the artist Dora Carrington.His life at Bottengoms and the landscape around his home became the subject of Blythe's long-running column, "Word from Wormingford", in the "Church Times".