File 39. - Letter from Ifor to his father,

Informs his father that the arrangement with Selfridges is working well and acknowledges a 2nd parcel from them. He has received the 1st batch of Danish bread, which is an improvement over that from Berne. Ifor brings up the subject of his parents moving house and expresses how he wishes he was there to assist with the move. He then moves on to talk at great length about Welsh nationalism, his hopes and dreams for the future of the nation of Wales. He sees education of the Welsh population as the main tool of achieving his vision. He writes that his mother would understand if she saw him teaching at the camp school, his pupils all seafaring men. Ifor is still in good health though is finding the monotony of life and limited outlook a strain. He once again expresses how he longs for home but writes how he has not forgotten the social squalor and the intellectual torpor of the Welsh of Aberdare. Finishing with 'we must cleanse the Augean stables'.