Autograph Letter Signed 'Frank Richards (Dick)', to "Dear Old Bill" [W[illiam] Townsend, former comrade in Royal Welch Fusilers], about "Old Soldier Sahib", recently published.

Two pages, cr. 8vo, fold marks, small loss to margin without loss of text, mainly good condition. "Thanks very much for letter, the 10/- postal order is 5/- more than the book cost me from the publishers, had a drink at your [deletion] expense with the surplus. I have forwarded the book on to you under separate cover, wjhich you should receive at the same time as this letter. 'Old Soldier Sahib' is an autobiography of my life from the age of ten to a year before the great war, having no data to to [sic] guide me I had to rely entirely on memory for my story, which is apt to play one tricks after a lapse of over thirty years. Most of the story deals with my soldiering days in India & Burmah, don't know whether you will like it, but whether you do or not please give me you [sic] candid opinion on it. If possible I shall be spending a few days in London sometime this month, if I do I shall pay you a call [...] P.S. Very interesting the cutting you sent me, we old Welck Fusiliers are getting very p[rominent in the papers of late."