Baxter had a musical connection to the Sitwell circle: William Walton dedicated a piano arrangement of a piece from "Façade" (1926) to his wife Edith. During the General Strike 1926, Osbert Sitwell and Siegfried Sassoon waited for and met Baxter outside his Chelsea flat, at 2 am, and discussed moderation of the "bellicose" tone on the strike taken by "Express", with the hope of influencing Beaverbrook and seeing the strike resolved.