| Description | Mary Taylor begins this letter by referring to a dress pattern which she had sent to Elizabeth. She remarks on her daughter's ill-health and arrangements to hold a debate in Gloucester. Mary Taylor also comments on an invitation which the family had received from Elizabeth's aunt Caroline Barrow who had invited the Taylor family to stay with her in Birmingham in order to hear the politician John Bright speak. Mary Taylor writes that she would like to go but needed somebody to accompany her. She writes 'I have gone into the old stage of life and cannot have pluck enough to manage everything for myself'. The letter concludes with details relating to forthcoming family arrangements. |