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Ref NoMS 466/1/1/1/2/1/89
Finding NumberMS 466/123/39
TitleLetter from Elizabeth Taylor to John and Mary Jane Taylor
LevelItem
Date[n.d. 1873]
DescriptionIn this letter Elizabeth describes going to the train station with her school friends to meet a German pupil who was returning to the school in Saxe-Meiningen. She also complains about being singled out by a teacher for bad behaviour, expressing her frustration at the constant scolding which she received. Elizabeth describes her anger at being punished for receiving bad marks by being excluded from the school's music exam, adding that her friend Edith had been forbidden from going on the school's next theatre trip. Elizabeth notes that Miss Trinks had told her that whenever Elizabeth and Edith got together the girls 'were always up to mischief'.

Please note that the first page of this letter features crossed writing and is difficult to read in places.
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FormatItem
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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