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65974: Letter: To David Jones, includes a chit from 1915 on the use of respirators and smoke helmets, (November 1968).

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posted on 2024-05-02, 13:31 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

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.

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Identifier

6417.cpd | 6366.jpg | DJNLW_P1.2.1f7.jpg 6367.jpg | DJNLW_P1.2.1f8.jpg

Subject

Jones, David (1895-1974)

Creator

Owen, W.R.

Date

22nd November 1968

Date Created

22/11/1968

Spatial

Cardiff

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Letter | Letter Official Document

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The National Library of Wales / The David Jones Literary Estate

Collection ID

David Jones Papers P/1/2/1 f.7 | David Jones Papers P/1/2/1 f.8

Repository Name

National Library of Wales

Repository Address

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3BU, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive