Meanwhile, Lax had helped Rice start "Jubilee", a lay Catholic magazine, in 1952 and became its roving editor. In 1953 he was in Paris, writing for a small literary magazine, "New Story". By 1962 he found his way to the Greek islands, initially settling in Kalymnos, then moving on to Patmos, where he spent his last years. Seeking relative solitude, Lax said it was important to “put yourself in a place where Grace can flow.” The 1962-7 correspondence of Lax and Merton, written in a kind of comic argot, covered his early years in Greece and was first published as "A Catch of Anti-Letters" in 1978. Later their correspondence over the years 1938-68 was published as "When Prophecy Still Had a Voice".