| Description | Elizabeth thanks her parents for their letters and remarks on a request for money which her sister Margaret had sent to the girls' parents, commenting that Margaret (Pearlie) was 'such a spendthrift'. Elizabeth comments on her achievements at school in Saxe-Meiningen, writing that she was to go into a class with other English girls after the school holidays. Elizabeth asks her parents for clothing, refers to family news and writes about the lack of puddings during the school holidays when the girls who were staying at the school were given only strawberries or cherries with their coffee. Elizabeth concludes her letter by noting how much she had improved in her music lessons. |