65971: Letter: To Colin Hughes (July 1971).

Postmarked envelope for David Jones's letter of 26th July 1971.
David Jones thanks Colin Hughes for a letter of 3rd July 1971 / describes attempting a response but beginning it again after it had begun to 'meander' / discusses how Hughes has cleared up a point about the merging of battalions in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in February 1918, which Jones thought had taken place later on in the year / mentions having contracted trench fever / the weather on 6th and 7th February 1918 / being posted 'elsewhere' after the breakup of the 15th Battalion / describes recovering from trench fever back in England / discussing how impressive was the 'Jerry advance' / missing the 21st March [1918] 'putsch', and being unsure of whether the 38th Division was involved on that day / explains a photograph of himself [Jones] taken at Battalion HQ Company where he was working for a Battalion Intelligence Officer / mentions the BBC dramatic adaptation of 'In Parenthesis' / discusses David Blamires's upcoming book ['David Jones: artist and writer', Manchester University Press, 1971], and having requested an advance copy after having not decided to read a manuscript draft.