| Description | In this letter Elizabeth refers to events at home. Her parents had attended a Royal Academy Exhibition and Elizabeth asks them to bring the Exhibition catalogue when they visited her in the Summer. Elizabeth tells her parents that the school holidays at Saxe-Meiningen would begin on 15th July 1871, asking them to come as soon as possible and to stay for the duration of the school holidays.
Elizabeth writes about her activities which included visits and games such as 'here we go round the mulberry bush'. She describes a large swing at the school which allowed seven people to swing on it at once. Elizabeth also complains about a new housekeeper at the school and tells how the girls received a bad mark if they spoke in English. Elizabeth writes that she had just returned from a long walk and notes that an attractive Italian musician had come to play music after dinner.
Elizabeth includes a riddle written by one of her school friends at the end of her letter. |