Scope and Content Correspondence, reports, minutes, interviews, notebooks, clippings, contracts with publishers, and drafts of essays, speeches, and books; including letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Maritain, Padraic Colum, Hilaire Belloc, Van Wyck Brooks, Francis J. Sheed, Saul Alinsky, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Heinrich Bruning, and Konrad Adenauer; with material pertaining to his visits to Germany in 1937- 1938, 1945,...

Scope and Content Correspondence with and concerning Sherwood Anderson, Charmian (Mrs. Jack) London, and Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1929-1957; clippings concerning McCarthy, 1949-1957, John F. Kennedy, 1960-1963, General William T. Sherman, and Thomas Sherman, SJ; clippings on Wisconsin history; and the Milwaukee County Historical Society Newsletter, 1964- 1965.

Scope and Content Correspondence; class grade books and records; notes and comments on American authors by Ryan; reports and minutes of the experimental program for administrators, College of Commerce, University of Notre Dame, 1951-1952; insurance and financial records; scrapbooks and clippings concerning Ryan, John Lujack, and John F. Kennedy; souvenirs collected by Ryan; and photographs.