posted on 2024-05-02, 14:26authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Title page of the book 'In Parenthesis' with inscription by David Jones: 'To Colin Hughes with following corrections, etc. from David Jones November 1969'. The corrections follow in black, red and green ink - listing the page number and the errata.
Colin Hughes visited David Jones many times to discuss elements of the attacks on Mametz Wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. David Jones annotated Colin's copy of the book 'In Parenthesis' (1937) during these visits.