| Description | George Cadbury begins this letter by remarking that his son George Norman had been sent home from school suffering with a bad cold. He describes a recent incident when Woodbrooke had caught fire, writing that he and Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury had bicycled down to the college and found residents in their dressing gowns throwing buckets of water over the fire. He adds that they had 'pluckily' managed to extinguish the blaze before the fire brigade had arrived. George Cadbury comments that the fire had started in the library and had destroyed many of the books. He concludes his letter remarking on winning several prizes at the annual Chrysanthemum show, writing that hundreds of people had visited the Manor House to see the flowers. |