| Level | File |
| Ref No | EHS/C/8/2 |
| Alt Ref No | 5017, 5462, 5783, 5824, 6631, 6850, 6742, 6766, 6767, 6852, 6865, 6866, 6871, 6872, 6875, 6877, 6878, 6874, 6880, 6895, 6896, 6897, 6898, 6900, 6901, 6905,6907, 6908, 6909, 6910, 6911, 6912, 6913, 6914, 6917, 6918, 6920, 6922, 6923, 6931, 6859, 6876, 67411 |
| Title | Letters to E H Shepard from friends and acquaintances |
| Date | 1899-1972 |
| Extent | 104 letters, 16 photographs |
| Description | General correspondence to Shepard written by people who appear to have had some kind of personal or professional connection to him. Some are essentially fan letters; others appear to be personal or business correspondence, reacting to [for instance] his son's death, broadcasts featuring him, or his award of the Military Cross or OBE. Writers include: Alice Street [widow of Arthur D. Street, found in his book, which is in the collection]; Elspeth Grahame [widow of Kenneth Grahame, author of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS]; Daphne and Christopher Milne [wife and son of A.A. Milne, the latter being the inspiration/namesake of Christopher Robin]; Edwin Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel; Ernest Swaish [brother of his close friend George Swaish]; Lady Guinness [probably Merula Salaman Guinness, daughter of Shepard's student friend Chattie Wake Salaman and wife of Sir Alec Guinness]; William Temple, Anglican Archbishop of York [a friend from St. Paul's School]; Sir Philip Gibbs [a prominent writer and one of the official British reporters during WWI]; distant relatives; and members of his siege battery. Many of the letters are informal and their authors cannot be definitively identified. One letter, dated 8 October 1943 from Gladys Richmond [previous reference number 6767], included photographs of Graham Shepard, his wife Ann Gibbon Shepard, and his daughter Minette during their period living in Newfoundland, Canada. Another, dated 6 February 1938 from Jack [previous reference number 6741; possibly John Gibbon, Ann Gibbon Shepard's father], includes three photographs of a woman and two children [from the text, probably Florence Chaplin, Graham, and Mary Shepard]. Two notes, from [G. Holiday] and G. Pownah, were found with Shepard's war memorabilia. |
| Related Material | One letter references photographs that are catalogued at EHS/F/10/15. |
| Category | Correspondence |