| Description | Referring to her granddaughter's 'happy foreign school life', Elizabeth Cash writes with news of Elizabeth's family at home. She remarks on the importance of Elizabeth's adolescence as a time for her to gain useful knowledge and for appreciating her freedom. The letter includes references to Elizabeth's sisters Margaret (Pearlie) and Janet and her new baby brother, John Augustine who was born in November 1873 whilst Elizabeth was away at school. Elizabeth's brother John Howard is also mentioned. Elizabeth Cash remarks on recent social occasions and notes that she and her daughter, Elizabeth's aunt Ann (Annie) Cash, were shortly going to visit Elizabeth's aunt Caroline (Carrie) at her married home in Calthorpe Road in Birmingham. |