| Description | Norah Carroll Shepard, a teacher and nurse, was E. H. Shepard's second wife. Her early life is not well documented in the archive, but she spent some time in India when she was young; her family later settled in Australia, where she taught at Kobeelya, a Church of England girls' boarding school in Katanning, Western Australia, from 1928 to 1930. She moved to the United Kingdom some time later, where her father was the curator of a small museum at Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. Carroll and Shepard met in 1942 during a concert at St. Mary's Hospital, where she was working, and married on 18th November 1944. The letters in this file include: a note from [a man who might be a previous boyfriend]; letters from relatives by blood and marriage; letters from friends and business colleagues of EHS, including two forwarded by EHS while Norah Shepard was on an extended trip to Australia in 1972; and letters of condolence on Shepard's death in 1976. |