| Description | In this letter Elizabeth Taylor describes being relieved that her parents weren't angry at her for making fun of her uncle and the boring time which she was having on her visit to Stockton. Elizabeth remarks that her parents had no need to employ servants, noting that she could undertake the housework alongside her sisters Margaret and Janet. She writes 'what's the good of three grown-up educated daughters if they can't wash as well as uneducated, poor girls.'
Elizabeth refers to the poor health of a family pet and suggests that she would like to train as a veterinary surgeon before making a number of remarks about her brother Wilfrid. She describes her own recent activities noting that she had been to see William Barrett's Iron Works and had visited a lighthouse at Hartlepool before returning to Stockton for a game of bagatelle. She remarks on her cousin Lucy's terrible singing and comments that her uncle spent a great deal of time asleep before concluding her letter by describing an amusing incident when her uncle had chased a dog around the garden. |