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Caitlin, Thomas’s widow, wrote to the Home Office in the 1950s requesting his body be exhumed, writes Mike PenderAdrian Chiles rightly described Dylan Thomas’s grave as “an “extravagantly simple affair” in an overspill church graveyard in Laugharne (Do not go gentle into that hot tub! A luxury spa is the wrong way to remember Dylan Thomas, 3 February).Correspondence held by the National Archives in Kew reveals that Caitlin, Thomas’s widow, wrote to the Home Office in the 1950s requesting that his body be exhumed and reinterred in the garden of his boathouse overlooking the Taf estuary. Caitlin said that the modest cross in a “bleak extension” of a church graveyard was not fitting for “Wales’ foremost poet”. Continue reading...