 As well as Murphy 's close relationship with Kemp , Murphy 's biographer , historian Sidney Fine , found in Murphy 's personal papers a letter that " if the words mean what they say , refers to a homosexual encounter some years earlier between Murphy and the writer . " However , the letter 's veracity cannot be confirmed and a review of all the evidence led Fine to conclude that he " could not stick his neck out and say [ Murphy ] was gay " . 
