| Description | Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury remarks on the photographs which her family had sent to her, including a photograph of a house in Sweden where her sister Margaret Taylor was staying. She also refers to receiving photographs from her brother Wilfrid Taylor and his wife Elizabeth Knox Taylor who were working in South Africa, including pictures of their dog and their new baby. Taylor Cadbury remarks 'we are glad to hear that the baby is training for the adult schools by waking up so early on Sunday'.
Taylor Cadbury writes that her sister Josephine Taylor was recovering well from her fever whilst in India and comments on other family news, including her distaste for the literary works of Marie Corelli and how she had not yet driven a motor car herself, thinking it to be 'rather headachey work.' She also refers to a conference on education which she planned to attend in Worcester and a conference being held by the National Union of Women Workers in York in November 1904 where she hoped to meet up with her sister Janet who lived in Doncaster. Taylor Cadbury was also planning to assist in the organisation of the Scottish Industries Sale in Birmingham which was taking place in November.
Taylor Cadbury writes that she had recently attended Leicester Quarterly Meeting where she had visited the old Town Hall and seen 'a place where George Fox and other friends were brought before the judges'. She had also seen a 'tiny cell' where twenty eight friends had been imprisoned at once. Taylor Cadbury notes that Queen Elizabeth I was supposed to have seen one of Shakespeare's plays in the Town Hall 'superintended by Shakespeare himself'.
Taylor Cadbury refers to family visits, particularly those from her stepsons Edward and George Junior and their wives Dorothy and Edith. She also writes about a visit from a lady called Miss Longden who had come to Bournville to take over the physical exercise classes delivered to female Cadbury employees as Miss Grieve, the present instructress, was taking a year off. |