During the late 1960s, when Rudolf became a regular visitor to Stroud Typewriting, Rotaprinting and Duplicating Service to begin work on his first artist’s book with Patricia Scrivins and her son John, their conversations touched on the fact that Viola had been ill for several years and recently suffered a stroke. Patricia had nursing qualifications and offered to assist Rudolf with caring for Viola. The three formed a close bond. When Viola died, Patricia continued to be a companion to Rudolf, visiting him daily, accompanying him on his travels around Stroud and helping him publish his three volumes of poetry, Crie du Coeur, A Soothing Wind and A Loving Cup. In addition to thanking Patricia by name in all these volumes, Rudolf wrote and dedicated number of poems to her, among them one which conveyed his deep appreciation of their companionship:

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The strong relationship between Patricia and Rudolf deserves attention for fundamental reasons: it helped to preserve Rudolf ’s work after his death and, ultimately, it helped to make this book possible.

Rudolf named Patricia an executor of his will along with Alan Meyer, an attorney with the firm Halsey, Lightly and Hemsley. In this way, Rudolf passed to them equally the copyright in his entire body of work.