| Description | In this letter Elizabeth Taylor writes about her travels across Switzerland, remarking on the various hotels where her party had stayed. She provides accounts of their journeys across the country and vivid descriptions of the mountainous scenery which they had encountered.
Elizabeth Taylor begins her letter writing about a visit to a glacier where the party had rested amongst the rocks and ferns eating wild strawberries and bilberries. She comments on the lack of religious services on Sundays and remarks that she had been on a nine mile walk before travelling to the Rhone Valley, describing the brilliant blue scenery around the Rhone Glacier. Elizabeth also describes Mount Blanc and refers to a specimen of mountain flowers which she had sent home to her family at Sunbury. Much of this letter is taken up with descriptions of glaciers, Elizabeth commenting on the icebergs 'which sparkled like millions of crystals.' She also provides a detailed description of 'an enormous ice cave hollowed out by a tearing mountain stream.'
Elizabeth Taylor concludes her letter with an outline of the party's forthcoming travelling plans and references to her family's activities at home in Peckham Rye. |