K.B. McFarlane is remembered by Alan Bennett, his former student, and the life of a Forties Oxford don is evoked in two of his letters
Alan Bennett, 4 September 1997
“... the pinnacles lit from below, a youngish moon setting amid wisps of cloud over Boar’s Hill, Merton tower floodlit, and the glow of many bonfires between Chilterns and Cotswold. Next I satisfied an ancient longing and rang the College’s ten bells helped by Bursar minor and Holmes; by rushing from rope to rope and sometimes soaring towards the ceiling ... ”