Letter from Ken Bryant, 5 Glen Ave., Croydon 3136, Australia
To Alison Maude, 131 Morningside Road, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 1X1
Copied by Mary Davidson for purpose of legibility. October 26,1998
5 Glen Avenue Croydon, Vic, 3136
Australia 17th April 1998

Dear Alison,
Thank you for your card of 2nd April with Easter greetings, we wish you the same. To answer your questions, my uncle's full name was Lt. Col. Jasper Mozley Bryant. Jasper is listed in a dictionary of names which I have, 'Mozley' was I think a name of some ancestor on his mother's side of the family.
Incidentally I have his date of birth January 1882 and I think he died in December 1959 (or January 1960 ?) My aunt was Dr Margaret E.E. Bryant MBBS. I think 'Meta' is quite often used as short for Margaret. Her maiden name was Smith, and only her brother Donald, in Sydney, changed his name to Ellich-Smith. I don't know what the E.E. names were for Aunt Meta.
When I visited my uncle and aunt - for the first time to stay with them in August 1939 they had a little Austin '7' which could go halfway up the mountain. Originally they used a mule to carry their baggage up. Then after the 1939-45 war they bought a 4-wheel drive 'Jeep' which I think would of take them right up to their log cabin type
which I think they built themselves when they settled there in 1920.
My health is not so good and I am having to have blood transfusions every 2 or 3 months. Carmel still has a bronchial condition which she can't seem to throw off. We've had anti-flu injections and anti pneumonia, as a bad strain of flu virus is expected. Anyway, we still keep quite active.
It is unlikely now that my niece from S. Africa (Anne Major) will be calling on you, as her daughter and husband couldn't settle happily in B.C. They tried the Okanagan and Powell River and Victoria, but found costs of living high compared with S. A. Being country people I think she got a bit homesick.
I'm so glad we've kept intouch over the years. It has meant so much to us. Do wish we'd seen your 'Starboard Tack'! -_, Take good care of yourself. With love
Ken and Carmel

PS I expect you would remember that my uncle met my Aunt Meta in India during the 1914-18 war. He was in the British Army in India RA and she was in the medical service.