| Description | Elizabeth's letter describes the very hot weather in Saxe-Meiningen. She remarks on her recent purchase of a straw hat and writes about going down to the train station in Meiningen to wave goodbye to her school friends who were returning home for the holidays. Elizabeth describes a book she had been reading and thanks her parents for her new dresses, adding that the girls had enjoyed watching pine rafts floating down the river in Saxe-Meiningen. |