| Description | Letters to Henry Dunkin Shepard, E. H. Shepard's father, and to Ethel Shepard, his older sister. The two letters from Frank Dicksee [RA, later the President of the Royal Academy] are addressed to "Harry" and a small triangular birthday card inscribed "From the only one who loves you properly. J.S. [probably Jessie Shepard, E. H. Shepard's mother] is addressed to H.D. Shepard and dated 3 January [18]79. A letter from "Uncle Bill" [probably James William Shepard, Henry Dunkin Shepard's older brother] to Ethel [Shepard] is dated 18 December 1905. |