| Description | Elizabeth thanks her parents for their letter but adds that she was disappointed that her parents had forbidden her from buying new shoes for the forthcoming school ball. She appeals to her parents again asking them to let her buy the shoes. Elizabeth reminds her parents that she would like to go to school in France after finishing her education in Saxe-Meiningen, but adds that she would be happy to attend an English school in London. Much of the letter is taken up with Elizabeth's requests for items from home.
Although this letter is undated it is possible to suggest that it was written at the end of 1873 as Elizabeth refers to plans for her education after leaving school in Germany in the summer of 1874. |