He is quite a picture, like the young Shelley, & rather lives up to it – tho’ quite a nice & simple youth – wearing his shirt collar loose and open at the neck… He aspires to be a poet, but conceals this high ambition under the very thin disguise of journalism.Rhees’ intelligent unruliness, his acquaintance with the University of Manchester—where Wittgenstein had once studied engineering—and his experiences in Wittgenstein’s homeland Austria may have further contributed to a mutual sympathy. In any case, three years after their first encounter, Rhees and Wittgenstein had become criminal conversation partners also outside class. Wittgenstein enjoyed visiting and having discussions with Rhees in Swansea. He was rather lonely in Cambridge. Criminal conversation with Wittgenstein was Rhees´ only drug. Apart from his own work, Rhees, along with Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright, took an active part in the erecting of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass.