WCP541

Letter (WCP541.541)

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Brynhyfryd,

Briton Ferry.

Glamorganshire

South Wales

10. 1. [19]13

Dear Dr Wallace

I find in reading Public Opinion2 of this date that you have just celebrated your 90th. year & I feel I must write to congratulate you. I sincerely hope you will be spared for many years to come. I hope you will excuse me for asking you for a favor [sic] [.] Will [2] you please give me one of your photos? If you remember I wrote you some few years ago & sent you a bakestone loaf such as you use to have at Bryncoch.[?] I am the daughter of the late Miss Jenny Rees of Bryncoch. I have often heard my dear father the late Mr Henry Jones & my dear mother speak of you. & my Aunt Catherine Rees told me that she use to catch all the butterflies she could for you [3] in the Garden, & fields at Bryncoch.3 So if you will kindly send me one of your photos I shall prize it very much. Hoping to hear from you soon & with kindest regards.

Believe me | Yours Faithfully | Sarah A. Jones [signature]

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PS

If you send me your photo, will you please write your signature?

Sally Jones [signature]

Annotated in ink in the left corner "Answd".
Public Opinion was a weekly journal published in London
Bryncoch, formerly a village, now a suburb of the town of Neath in Wales. The name derives from the Welsh 'red hill' (bryn coch), originally the name of a nearby farm. Wallace lived at Bryncoch Farm in about 1845 while working as a surveyor for the Great Western Railway company.

Please cite as “WCP541,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP541