Each group of materials has been arranged in chronological order. Additional autobiographical writings can be found within the Collected Reprints. General correspondence contains formerly unfoldered or miscellaneous letters. Note that these files are not the sole location of correspondence. Undated or unidentified correspondence precedes dated material in the folders.
Photographs accompanying letters remain with the correspondence.
These files, which have been left in their original alphabetical and reverse chronological arrangement, contain related correspondence, memos, reports, articles, and newsletters. These files also contain correspondence on the subject of human experimentation, as well as letters to and from Senators Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during 1973. The contents of the individual files remain in their original reverse chronological order. The files entitled Cancer Research span Shimkin's years as editor and associate editor of this AACR journal. The files contain correspondence, annotations, and all of the covers and cover editorials for which he was responsible.