The carbons of newspaper articles (3") are mostly undated. The exception is a folder with unpublished articles from the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph which is dated from around 1942. Clippings of newspaper articles embrace the years 1945-1974. Some articles can also be found in a scrapbook that likewise contains book reviews and another folder with articles and book reviews. Those two folders (box 5, folders 15 and 16) have been filed with the book reviews.
Breig wrote many book reviews which were for the most part, published by the NC News Service. There are therefore two folders (1.5") with NC News Service wire-service print-outs in this sub-series. Books he reviewed were about the Near East Crisis, the press and the media in general, religion, and politics.
Manuscripts and clippings of newspaper columns (2') account for the bulk of materials in this sub-series. There are undated manuscripts of columns Breig wrote for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, carbons of columns for the Cleveland Catholic Universe Bulletin for the years 1947-1948, mostly undated carbons of his syndicated weekly columns, and manuscripts of columns for 1974-1975. Following the carbons and manuscripts one can find an almost complete set of clippings of his columns in various newspapers from 1940 until 1981.
In the early years while he still worked at the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph the topics of his columns tended to be secular. With his move to the Universe Bulletin his columns concentrated more on religious topics, but he still commented on current political issues and other things that interested him. Otherwise the topics are not different from those described in the CHRONOLOGICAL FILE series, above.
There are some folders that contain only columns about special subjects. One is about an abandoned child (box 5, folder 35), one is about Joseph Breig's trip to Israel, 1968 (box 6, folder 51), and the last is about American Catholic intellectual inferiority (box 6, folder 71). At the end of the columns section there is a folder with clippings of readers' letters on Breig's columns (box 6, folder 72).
At the beginning of the magazine manuscripts and clippings section (1'7") one can find two small folders with clippings of Breig's articles in his high school and college papers (the Spectator and the Scholastic). He was editor of both papers. These are followed by a list of articles which Breig sent to various Catholic magazines. The list embraces the years 1943-1950. It is not clear that this a comprehensive list of his articles for the period. Breig wrote articles for a large number of Catholic magazines. In contrast to the order of the newspaper writings section, manuscripts and clippings of magazine articles are all filed together by magazine. Many of the manuscripts are undated and not all of the magazines have manuscripts or clippings accompanying them. Most of the articles are from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and only some are from the 1970s and 1980s.
The end of this sub-series is formed by twelve folders of miscellaneous writings (3.75"). It is impossible to determine where these have been published, or even if they have been published, as many of them are untitled and undated. These writings are about the same subjects as his columns and range from 1939 to 1975.
SPEECHES is the last sub-series of this series. It contains two folders (1") with manuscripts of different speeches that Breig gave at various occasions. Most of the speeches are identified as to time and place of delivery. Sometimes Breig annotated them for explanation, as well. The time span ranges from 1951 until 1975.