| Description | In this letter Elizabeth thanks her parents John and Mary Taylor for the letters and other literature which they had sent to her. She refers to an amusing incident when she had been called to the School Principal Miss Trinks's office thinking that she had done something wrong, only to find she had been called to collect a letter from home.
The letter reveals that Elizabeth's parents were concerned that there was not sufficient food being provided for Elizabeth and her sister Margaret at their school in Saxe-Meiningen. Elizabeth reassures them that the girls were being well fed and provides a detailed account of their dining arrangements, noting that they were given chocolate pudding on Sundays as a treat.
Elizabeth tells her parents that she had been skating eight times and expresses her disappointment that the thaw in the winter weather had put an end to the entertainment. She also describes her living arrangements at the school with reference to clothing and the other girls she was living with. |