| Description | In this extract Mary Taylor remarks on recent family activities and writes that Elizabeth's aunts Maria and Lizzie had recently given birth to two boys. She comments on the girls' forthcoming parcel from home and notes that their brother John Howard was suffering from measles. Mary Taylor also writes about plans to visit Margaret and Elizabeth in Germany with the girls' father John Taylor. Later in the letter Mary Taylor instructs Elizabeth to be more tidy at school, advising her to take example from Mrs. J. J. Brown writing 'it is a pleasure to see into her drawers' adding 'yet she is one of the most clever and educated women in England'. |