Correspondence with Joyce Kilmer, John Ayscough, Wilfrid Meynell, Thomas Walsh, John O'Hara, CSC, Charles Phillips, Joseph J. Boyle, CSC, and others, 1889-1940; manuscripts of O'Donnell's doctoral dissertation, The Prose of Francis Thompson; student Mass books, 1909-1916; class record books; class lecture notes; unpublished poems and a notebook of poetry; lectures and sermons; clippings on the death of Joyce Kilmer; and pamphlets.

Photocopies of her brief memoirs concerning James Cardinal Gibbons; priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross at Notre Dame including Edward Sorin, William Corby, John Zahm, Charles Doremus, Thomas Walsh, Charles O'Donnell, James Burns, John W. Cavanaugh; and Notre Dame laymen James Edwards, Jerome Green, and Knute Rockne. Also an article about Mary Sullivan, 1985.

Letters received from donors regarding the Jubilee of Father Sorin (1888) and the fundraising for a memorial statue to Father Sorin (1905-1906). Letters were received by Professors Orville Chamberlain and J. A. Lyons, James Cardinal Gibbons, John Zahm, CSC, William J. Marr, CSC, John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, Thomas E. Walsh, CSC, and William Corby, CSC, from friends of the University.