| Description | This letter incorporates two separate notes to Margaret and Elizabeth Taylor written by their mother. In her letter to Elizabeth, Mary Taylor praises the improvement in Elizabeth's handwriting and thanks her for sending some photographs. In her letter to Margaret, Mary Taylor criticises her daughter's photography skills writing that the photos which the girls had sent home were 'very badly taken' adding 'Elsie's is dreadful too & thine not extra nice'. Mary Taylor also writes that Margaret would be expected to teach her younger sister Janet to play the piano when she returned home from school in Germany. She remarks on the girls having left home early, adding that the family couldn't send Janet to school in Meiningen whilst both Margaret and Elizabeth were away from home. The letter concludes with comments about money and educational advice, Mary Taylor writing 'take warning in time, with a determination to keep up your knowledge and acquirements thro' the years that are to come!'. |