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Ref NoMS 466/1/1/1/3/2/11
Finding NumberMS 466/123/1-2
TitleLetter from Elizabeth (Elsie) Taylor to her mother Mary Jane Taylor (nee Cash)
LevelItem
Date[c.1871]
DescriptionIn this letter, written from Sunbury, Peckham Rye, on a Sunday evening, Elizabeth Taylor thanks her mother for her last letter and expresses gladness that her mother's trip to Nailworth with Elizabeth's brother John Howard had gone well. She notes that everyone at home in Peckham Rye was delighted with 'Baby' and remarks on the family's health.

Elizabeth describes her activities that day, including attending a morning Bible Class, Meeting for Quaker Worship and visiting her grandmother Elizabeth Cash's house. She notes that her grandmother had contributed to Meeting that day. Elizabeth tells her mother that she had eaten goose with the family for Sunday dinner before going out into the garden where she had sung with her aunt Ann (Annie) Cash and played 'Scripture Cards' with her grandmother. Elizabeth concludes her letter remarking that she intended to write to her father, John Taylor.
Extent2
FormatItems
Physical DescriptionThese two items should be produced together as they form parts of one individual document.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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