65969: Letter: To Colin Hughes (January 1971).

David Jones thanks Colin Hughes for a card from 5th January [1971] and for his ongoing 'research' / confirms Malory's Morte d'Arthur as the source for the phrase 'and on the morn Elias the captain came' [the adjutant in 15 RWF was actually called Capt Elias] / explains that in 'In Parenthesis' quotations from past literature etc. have a correspondence with actual events / discusses at length the choice of names he gave 'Mr Jenkins', the young subaltern in his battalion: Piers Dorian Isambard Jenkins / Wilde's play Picture of Dorian Gray one source/the Catholic chaplain in his battalion, Father Deiniol Hughes MC, whom Jones encountered in 1917 near the Yser Canal model for the Father Larkin of 'In Parenthesis' / had been in touch with Captain Fitzsimmons of the battalion who was at school with Fr Hughes and could have elaborated on this but was now dead / Fr Hughes always with his men even in battle / inspiration for the phrase 'why is Father Larkin talking to the dead' in 'In Parenthesis' / Written in black ink with notes in purple and black ink.