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.

Correspondence (originals and copies), with Daniel E. Hudson, CSC, editor of The Ave Maria; Mrs. B.J. Semmes, his god-mother, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. J. M. Semmes; and Thomas Kilby Smith and Walter George Smith (1854-1924), sons of a Civil War companion; with a copy of a journal that Dutton kept during the Civil War, 1855- 1864, articles about, and relics of, Father Damien, and a copy of Charles J. Dutton's The Samaritans of Molokai.

Papers concerning the formation of the Catholic Summer School of America and its first session held in New London, Connecticut (1892), with correspondence consisting primarily of replies to McMahon's request of university professors and Catholic scholars to participate the first year; and circulars for the Columbian Catholic Summer School of the Mid-west (1895 and 1899).

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Letters written to Rev. Joseph Haseltine by Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget and others; and documents giving Haseltine's family background and dates when he received sacraments.

Also available on microfilm.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and meeting material relating to Fichter's membership on the board of directors for the National Catholic Reporter.

Letters, agreements, and memorabilia concerning Casasanta's Notre Dame fight songs.

Letters from William Butler Yeats, A.E. Housman, Hilaire Belloc, Louise Imogen Guiney, Henry Austin Dobson, Maurice Francis Egan, Joyce Kilmer, Alice Meynell and others, many of them giving or refusing permission to use copyrighted material in A Book of Lines, an anthology of lyric poetry edited by Carrico (1913); manuscripts of essays and sermons; and information on a curriculum proposal in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Correspondence, 1970-1978; manuscripts of talks and articles by Davis; subject files, 1970-1977; an oral history interview with Davis, 21 January 1972; and printed material collected by Davis, 1970s.

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.

Four files of correspondence generated during his tenure as President of St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, 1934-1937, and as Superior to the Holy Cross Community House at Notre Dame.

St. Edward's was operated by the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and correspondence reflects this relationship. Includes letters from Fathers Thomas A. Steiner (Assistant Provincial), James A. Burns (Provincial), James W. Donahue (Superior General), and others.

Five letters to Finotti (1855-1877), among them one concerning the exhumation of Bishop Frederic Baraga, one concerning the Society of California Pioneers, and one concerning the school question; and scrapbooks of political cartoons, including caricatures of Jefferson Davis, and newspaper clippings on the Civil War, popular poetry, and Catholicism.

Copies of legalistic, detailed letters that Corcoran, a Philadelphia lawyer, sent to Archbishop John J. Krol and other Pennsylvania bishops, critiquing proposed federal policies toward education and religiously supported educational institutions.

Files representing Garvin's interest in medieval bibliography and his work on an edition of Stephen Langton's writings; one folder of personal correspondence with Sister Stella Spangler, O.P.; and 103 issues of Speculum with marginalia by Garvin, 1941-1979.

Manuscripts and pamphlets by O'Meara; correspondence and other material addressing such social issues as civil rights, riots, obscenityh, and Indiana apportionment, 1965-1966; O'Meara's remarks on Law Day USA, 1959-1962; a proposal for remodeling and expanding the law school, 1966; and correspondence and clippings concerning O'Meara's appointment as dean, 1952, and retirement from Notre Dame, 1967-1968.

Letters that Roles received while rector of St. Mary's Church, Chicago, primarily concerning financial and real estate transactions and investments.

These photographs (negatives, contact sheets, and slides) cover Notre Dame campus and student life, 1970-1974. They include sporting events, lectures, concerts, cenic views of campus, students, professors, administrators, Vietnam war protests, various campus events, some student trips, and scenes of downtown South Bend. Photographs taken after 1974 focus more exclusively on Notre Dame sports, especially football and men's basketball.

Notes, typewritten partial drafts, and galleys of his biography of Thomas Ewing Sherman, SJ, General Sherman's Son , with photostats and transcriptions of related documents.

Correspondence of Joshua Giddings with family members and acquaintances, including William LLoyd Garrison, regarding reconstruction policy; also correspondence of George W. Julian (1817-1899), Member of Congress from Indiana, and others, including the American Abolition Society, Charles Francis Adams, and Salmon P. Chase; concerning the Republican Party, slavery, the 1856 Republican convention, and political strategy.

Ephemera and photographs collected by Julia Merkel during her time as a student at University of Notre Dame, 1985 to 1988. Merkel was a founding member of the university’s Women’s Cross-Country (WCC) team.