| Description | This letter refers to Valentine's Day, indicating that the date given as 'Saturday 15th 72' refers to Saturday 15th February 1872. Elizabeth notes that she and her sister Margaret (Pearlie) had received a letter from her parents 'yesterday', on Friday 14th which was 'better than any Valentine we could have got.'
Elizabeth expresses her disappointment that ice skating was over for the the foreseeable future owing to the 'sloppy & wet, rainy & miserable' weather. She refers to the girls having been to a concert the previous Thursday. Some of the girls at the school had complained about their coffee being cold in the afternoon, and the school's principal Miss Trinks had requested that Elizabeth be responsible for bringing a cup up to her in the afternoons. Elizabeth was amused at having to do this, suggesting that she felt like 'a cupbearer in olden times'.
This letter reveals that Elizabeth Taylor was suffering from home-sickness. She asks her parents to describe where they were sitting at home when they wrote to her so she could picture them back at Sunbury. Elizabeth refers to having broken a looking glass and notes that she feared she would now have 'seven years of misfortune!' |