Guide to the Shepherd and Crie Family Letters, 1862-1879
Shepherd and Crie Family Letters, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Hiram H. Crie lived in Rockland, Maine, and wrote to his son, Anson Crie, with fatherly advice. William W. Shepherd, his wife, Flora E. Hall Shepherd, and their children, Albert and Ida Shepherd also lived in Rockland, Maine. William Shepherd, out of economic necessity, worked in Massachusetts. During his absence from home he wrote to his wife about their children, finances, and other matters of everyday life. Almon Shepherd wrote from his home in Chelsea, Wisconsin.
Family correspondence of the Shepherd and Crie families of Rockland, Maine, and letters from Almon Shepherd, a Wisconsin settler, to Flora Shepherd. The Crie family letters are chiefly from Hiram Crie to his son, Anson. The bulk of the Shepherd family letters is from William Shepherd to his wife, Flora, and concern their children, finances, and other matters of everyday life. Miscellaneous Shepherd family correspondence is also included.
Crie family, Hiram Crie to Anson Crie, 1870-1877
Crie family, letters between Anson Crie and Mrs. Parker, 1876, 1877
Crie family, letters to or from Anson Crie, 1877-1878
Shepherd family, William Shepherd to Flora Shepherd, 1862 Nov - 1863 Jul
Shepherd family, William Shepherd to Flora Shepherd, 1863 Aug - 1864 Nov
Shepherd family, William Shepherd to Flora Shepherd, 1865 Oct - 1871 Apr, n.d.
Shepherd family, William Shepherd to Ida Shepherd, 1868
Shepherd family, miscellaneous, 1872-1879
Shepherd family, letters to Flora Shepherd, 1873-1879, n.d.
Shepherd family, William Shepherd to Flora Hall, n.d.
Wisconsin letters, Almon Shepherd to Flora Shepherd, 1876