Encounters with Searight also influenced English author E.M. Forster's world-view, particularly with regard to soldiers.
At one point in his military career he was classified as an interpreter competent in "Arabic, Baluchi, Persian and Pushtu.
Ogden was also the editor of the Psyche Miniatures series at Cambridge University, and he approved and published the Sona book, as well as writing an introduction for it.
It was made up of homoerotic stories, a detailed listing of his sexual conquests with a total of 129 boys[5][6] — the "Paidiology"— and a 137-page verse autobiography entitled "The Furnace".
The original manuscript is now kept in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University (Rare Books Division, 7745 Bd.