Letters and poems and notes relating to John and Ellen Birch

(nee Garland, daughter of Charles Garland).

Ø Poem written to Lilian G Birch on her 21^st birthday (1881)

Ø Family Poem (date unknown) setting out family history, told to her grand-daughter Rica.

Ø Two Poems written for her daughter Lillian (wife of T W Moores), 1887 and 1888

Ø Poem in the form of a letter to her “Stoke friends”, January 1888.

Ø Letter to her daughter Lillian Moores nee Garland, December 1906, containing her “mini autobiography” and a poem of hers.

Ø A letter to her husband John Birch, 1907, setting out what she wanted to happen to her possessions (a sort of informal will)

Ø Letter from John Birch to Lillian Moores, informing her of her mother Ellen’s death in 1911

See also two poems by their son E A Birch, written “as if by Ellen Birch” (and reflecting her views and approach);-

Family members – I’d welcome any other letters etc., to be added here.