 While living in Sennen, Cornwall, Manning-Sanders was for a time a neighbour of the British writer Mary Butts.Manning-Saunders's short story, "John Pettigrew's Mirror," appeared in the 1951 anthology "One and All – A Selection of Stories from Cornwall," edited by Denys Val Baker.The story was republished at least once, in the 1988 anthology "Ghost Stories" edited by Robert Westall.