Collections : [Connecticut Museum of Culture and History]

This collection consists of the unpublished manuscript for a history of the Episcopal parish in Bristol, Connecticut, during the colonial period, accompanied by several drafts, galleys, proofs, research notes, and correspondence written or compiled by James Shepard. The unpublished manuscript, with numerous edits and annotations, is in a binder. The drafts are arranged in page number or book number order. The correspondence, relating to his research or the publication of the book, is arranged chronologically and contains both incoming and outgoing letters.

The collection was donated to the Historical Society on December 4, 1894. In 1903 they were bound into two volumes. With another volume of material from a different donor, the collections were known as the Separate Church Papers. At a later date the documents were disbound and their page numbers from their respective volumes were noted in the upper left hand corner. The documents retain their page number order, which is roughly chronological.