| Description | In this letter George Newman refers to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury as 'Majesty' and remarks on King George V and Queen Mary's royal visit to Bournville in May 1919. He also enquires about Taylor Cadbury's health, remarking that she had looked ill when he had last seen her. Newman comments about Quakers suggesting 'nowadays we are such a weak, pleasure-seeking, easily-tired crowd of talkers', calling for a return of 'persistent doers' to the Society of Friends. Newman concludes his letter remarking on Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's 'public life', possibly referring to her election as Birmingham City Councillor for Kings Norton in Autumn 1919. He writes that he hoped Taylor Cadbury's public responsibilities did not 'bedim the old light'. Newman adds 'to have guidance to know God's will, to have strength to do it, to have grace to love it, this is the secret of life'. Significantly, Taylor Cadbury quoted these remarks in her memoir of Newman written in June 1948. |