| Description | In this letter Mary Jane Taylor remarks on Lily Davey's arrival at Sunbury. She thanks Elizabeth for the flowers which she had sent to commemorate her parents' wedding anniversary and expresses her sadness that Elizabeth and her brother Howard could not be at home for the occasion. Mary Taylor provides a detailed account of the business difficulties which her husband John Taylor was experiencing, writing 'all the future seems to hang on such a small thread of hope'. She remarks that the problems had been caused by John Taylor being too trustworthy of his professional colleagues, writing that he had believed them to be 'as straightforward as himself'. Mary Taylor adds that John Taylor was hoping to sell half of the business. |