| Description | Elizabeth expresses her disappointment at not having received a letter from home. She notes that she had attended a church service in Saxe-Meiningen for Commemoration Sunday when the church had been decorated in black with candles on the altar.
Elizabeth also remarks on a forthcoming costume ball and tells her parents that she had been put into the top classes for all of her subjects except French.
Elizabeth concludes her letter remarking on the cobwebs and spiders in the school and the wet, foggy weather they were experiencing in Germany. |