Seklew returned to the UK in about 1900, settling in Bradford. There, he worked with J. W. Gott on The Truthseeker, and later propounded his ideas in The Eagle and The Serpent, a journal of which he was associate editor, all while running the Chicago Lunch Bar. He moved to Chicago in 1916, where he became a regular speaker at the Dil Pickle Club. As many of the speakers there described themselves as "professors", he decided to invent a higher title, calling himself Sirfessor Wilkes Barre.Franklin Rosemount, The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle, p. 16 He sold copies of a pamphlet, largely consisting of sayings of Mediaeval philosophers, entitled "The Gospel According to Malfew Seklew",Saturday Review, vol. 30, p. 36 and supplemented his income by selling other goods, such as cigarette holders."Unhatched egos bathe their souls in super sunlight", Chicago Daily Tribune, 28 February 1916 Seklew shared many of his ideas with Ragnar Redbeard, and the two shared a property for a time in the 1920s.
