| Description | Mary Jane Taylor wrote this letter to Elizabeth Taylor whilst she was staying with relatives from the Reed family in Brighton. Elizabeth and her elder sister Margaret were staying with Mary Taylor's sister Caroline Cash at Rose Cottage in Dorking. Mary Jane Taylor thanks her daughters Elizabeth (Elsie) and Margaret (Pearlie) for their recent letters and remarks on their activities 'skipping' and their 'ladder exercise', advising them to be careful that they didn't fall. Mary Jane Taylor also writes about her own recent activities with relatives and remarks on family health. She describes visiting the pier and beach at Brighton and comments on a trip to a bazaar where the items for sale were 'pretty' but expensive. Mary Jane Taylor also asks Margaret if she had discovered who had sent her a Valentine before commenting on arrangements for a visit by her mother, the girls' grandmother Elizabeth Cash, the following day. She concludes her letter asking Elizabeth and Margaret to pass on a number of messages to other relatives. |