| Description | This letter was written by Mary Taylor whilst she was visiting Margate with family. The letter relates to Elizabeth Taylor's twenty-second birthday on 24th June 1880 when Elizabeth was staying with her school friend Edith Graham and her family. Mary Taylor remarks on her daughter's progress since her twenty-first birthday asking 'have the 12 months left record of some improvement, more earnestness in prayer, helping you to more earnestness in your good works and labours of love, and service for Christ?' Mary Taylor emphasises the importance of Elizabeth making herself 'useful' and the necessity of her acting as an example to her class at the Peckham Friends' First-Day School. She also refers to letters which she had recently received from other family members and provides an account of her activities in Margate, writing that she had bathed at Westgate and intended to try a warm salt bath for her rheumatism. |