Personal Materials, 1938-1941 and undated

This series contains correspondence to Shaffner from Laura Jean Denham. Shaffner and Denham apparently met at Michigan State College, as she refers to their relationship as a "college romance." Most of the letters are undated, but it appears that the two corresponded while Shaffner worked on his M. S. at Michigan and Denham taught in Dowagiac, Michigan. The relationship ended in April 1941, after Shaffner began his doctoral work at Purdue.

Also included are documents from Shaffner's 1938 stay at Waldenwoods, the Michigan Junior Farm Bureau's summer camp. Eight unidentified photographs were transferred to Series IV: Photographs. Arrangement is chronological, except for the correspondence, which remains in the same order as before the papers were processed.