Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Creator: Floyd Mallory Shumway (1917-1977) Extent: ca. 1300 items Description: Shumway was a professor of American history, college dean, lecturer, and director of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. His papers consist of correspondence (1962-1987) relating to professional activities including Shumway's teaching at Columbia, Yale, and New York universities; articles and poems written as a student in elementary school; church histories and genealogical materials; Columbia University dissertation (1966) and publications pertaining to New Haven, CT, history, politics, early settlers, and social issues; articles, speeches, bibliographies, and book reviews of his Seaport City, New York in 1775 (1975); sermons; information concerning New Haven architecture and the Society of the Cincinnati; and course outlines and reading lists. Research Topics: Shumway's personal and academic material; doctoral dissertation on early New Haven