| Description | This entry is addressed to 'Miss Taylor, India' suggesting that the letter was written to one of Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's sisters possibly her younger sister Josephine. Taylor Cadbury reflects on the Indian weather from her home in Northfield. She reports that guests from the 'Daily News' had visited the Manor House and refers to the difficulties experienced by the war correspondents.
Taylor Cadbury notes that the Bournville Flower Show had been held the previous weekend, which the whole family had attended, adding that three hundred and fifty girls from the Girls' Evening Homes had visited the Manor House for tea on Saturday afternoon. Five hundred boys from her husband George Cadbury's class at the Severn Street Adult School in Birmingham and its local branches had also visited the Manor House for breakfast on the Sunday morning.
Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury concludes her letter by remarking that Glyndon and Dorothy Priestman had visited the family, writing that they had all gone on a ten hour bicycle excursion to Warwick and Kenilworth. |