| Description | This typed manuscript features reproduced typed extracts from Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's personal diaries relating to Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends between 1895 and 1905. The manuscript is twenty four pages in length and features dated entries which vary in length and detail. These entries include a range of comments in addition to those relating to events at Yearly Meeting, many reporting family news and social meetings. For example, Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's entry for Monday 18th May 1896 reads:
'Go to London; rooms at new Hotel Cecil, lunch with M. there. Go to Dulwich. Una in, not Aunt, unfortunately. On to Uncle Tom who has had heart attack - at Bournemouth - just come home, rather better, very dear as ever. Back to Ministry & Oversight at Devonshire House. George Came. He and I back to Cecil to supper.'
A further entry for 29th May 1900 illustrates Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's active participation in Yearly Meeting:
'Morning, separate sitting on Position of Women. Miss Richardson lunch with me. Afternoon, Education question in joint sitting; much diversity; I spoke. Evening, Home Missions. Evening, Henry off back to Reading; then I to Friends Quarterly Examiner Reunion; then Ed. and I chase round to find telephone, get through to home to discuss Temperance Meetings, etc. all well.'
This compilation of extracts from Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's personal diary entries reflects the practical purpose of her diaries as records which were returned to and examined for information relating to important aspects of her life such as her active interest in the development of the Religious Society of Friends. |