| Description | John Taylor begins this letter remarking on his daughters' 'urgent demand for money'. John Taylor explains the Taylors' decision to allow their daughters to take part in dancing lessons remarking that they had done so 'for the exercise & the amusement of it'. However, he emphasises that the girls were only allowed to undertake dancing classes 'during school life'. John Taylor also writes that the girls were not allowed to go to the theatre, telling them that they must 'make up your minds not to go'.
The letter also contains recent family news including remarks about the experiences of the girls' younger brother Howard (John Howard, born 1861) who was away at school.
This letter relates to a letter sent by Elizabeth Taylor to her father and mother asking for permission to go on a school trip to the theatre in September 1872. |