Smith, May

Scope and Contents The collection includes, notebooks, clippings, research notes, artworks, sheet music and letters.The papers centre mainly on a project to edit the letters of the New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins which Dr Sheppard began in 1975 after her retirement, but never completed. The collection also some more personal items dating from Dr Sheppard's earlier career.The provenance of the papers is not known, except insofar as they accompanied books from her library that were...