65974: Letter: To David Jones, includes a chit from 1915 on the use of respirators and smoke helmets, (November 1968).
Letter from W R Owen praising David Jones's work, and enclosing a chit from 1915 included in soldiers's pay books instructing them on the use of respirators and smoke helmets / Owen claims that he and Jones spent an afternoon in the Tate Gallery, London, together, contemplating works by William Blake, and that Jones's poem, 'In Parenthesis', has always meant a great deal to him.
Photograph of chit from 1915 folded in W R Owen's paybook throughout the war, and sent to David Jones along with a letter on 22nd November 1968 / chit includes instructions for soldiers regarding the use of respirators and smoke helmets / in his included letter Owen claims that he and Jones spent an afternoon in the Tate Gallery, London, together, contemplating works by William Blake, and that Jones's poem, 'In Parenthesis', has always meant a great deal to Owen.