Shearman, Henry Franklin ('Frank") and wife to mother and family, 1857 - 1880

6 ALsS. ALS of 4 mo 9, 1870, asks for a loan after a case of his caused him debt. Mentions that he will speak on behalf of Free Trade League. Henry F. Shearman worked in various occupations including attorney and businessman. An 1877 letter to brother Isaac is written from a farm in Minnesota. In the late 1890s he wrote to sister Alice from Georgia and signed as H. F. Howland Russell. Later letters written to Alice and his grandson Howland care of his son-in-law John Donaldson, Long Island, from England.