Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd typescript, 1962

Summary

Creator:

Floyd, Dolores Boisfeuillet, 1887-1966

Date:

1962

Extent:

1 folder(s) (1 typescript)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd typescript, ms978, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of a carbon typescript of Little Toona-how-i and His Big Gold Watch, a Story of Colonial Days in Georgia written by Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd in 1962. Intended for young children, the story deals with relationships between settlers and Native Americans in Colonial Georgia.

Biographical / historical:

Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd (1887-1966) married Neyle Colquitt and, after his death, Marmaduke Hamilton Floyd in 1930. She studied library science at Georgetown University and became a library assistant at the Savannah Public Library, retiring in 1943. She was interested in Georgia history and wrote several published and unpublished works on the subject.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Indians of North America -- Juvenile literature.
Typescripts.

Places:

Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Preferred citation:

Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd typescript, ms978, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.