Alphabetical files, professional files, personal files, and Notre Dame files, including drafts of poems, correspondence, teaching material, memorabilia, certificates, diplomas and clippings documenting his career as a poet and as a professor.

Files representing Joseph M. Duffy's interests in English and Irish authors (as a writer and as a teacher); class notes and other teaching material; manuscripts of lectures and articles; drafts of his dissertation; offprints of published articles; poems; and annotated copies of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and James Joyce's The Dubliners.

Records of Notre Dame's Department of English, including audio recordings of lectures and speeches.

The Robert Slabey papers consist of class material, printed material, and travel / conference files.