WCP3326

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BRYNHYFRYD,

BRITON FERRY.

Glamorganshire

South Wales

16.1.13.

Dear Dr. Wallace

Your letter² & photo to hand this morning to which please accept my very many thanks. I am more than delighted to have it & can assure you that I am very proud of it. I shall have it framed & hung in my drawing room. I am going to send you, tomorrow, a back stone loaf which I hope you will accept & enjoy for your breakfast on Saturday morning. Wish I had known in [2] time I would have sent one for yr birthday. We used to bake one every day for my dear father during his life time. He could eat backstone bread & butter when every thing else would fail to tempt him.

I think I shall be able to send you some meal [illeg.], "Sucan blawd", which I hope you will accept from a daughter of yr old friend.³ I wonder if you remember how to prepare it. I think had better say in case you have forgotten (70 odd years is a long time). Well put two good hands full of meal [3] into a stone jar & about a pint of water, let it stand over night until the following morning ^(evening) then stir it up well. Then strain through a hair sieve. put the liquid into a saucepan & boil for about 20 minutes & keep stirring all the time (as it burns directly if left) then pour into a soup plate until it cools. & serve with good milk, or cream. I wish you were able to come this way we should be so pleased to have yr company for a few days [4] We would do our best to make you comfortable & take you to see my dear mother's⁴ old home Bryncoch farm which is still in existence.

If at any time you would like any news of the old haunts of Neath I shall be pleased to give you any information I can. I am sure you will be amused at my writing in this strain but then you know I am a Welsh woman[.]

Hoping to be able to send you some meal in a few days & again thanking you.

With kind regards | yours faithfully | Sarah A Jones⁵ [signature]