CKNN 1989-021 : 2 linear feet. Eugene Kennedy - papers - 1981-1988. Drafts and manuscripts of Fixes , Defendant , Tomorrow's Catholics / Yesterday's Church , and various short articles; material from November 1984 meeting of the NCCB (National Conference of Catholic Bishops) including drafts of bishops' pastoral letters on Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy, minutes, statements and interventions; with a publicity file, notes, and correspondence related to Kennedy's career as a writer.
CKNN 1989-024 : 2 linear feet. Notes, articles, research material, much newsprint.
CKNN 1992-151 : 4 linear feet. Notes, clippings, photocopies, manuscripts, letters, magazines, promotional material for Father's Day , a photograph of Kennedy and Charles Curran at Loyola, and RESTRICTED material from interviews with Archbishop Hunthausen and Cardinal Bernardin. Manuscripts include Plain Speaking (Truman) script, Defendant , Fixes , and Easing Conflicts for American Catholics .
CKNN 1992-202 : 3 linear feet. (1.a) Speeches, talks, articles, book reviews by and about Kennedy; (1.b) notes by Kennedy; (2.a) general correspondence; (2.b) records of Kennedy's service as a committee member of the American Psychological Association; (3) notes and drafts of Eugene Kennedy / Sara Charles book Defendant , of one-man play on the papacy of John XXIII "I Would Be Called John" (written by Kennedy, made for TV, presented on PBS). Also correspondence concerning Two Cultures book; treatment of Father's Day - re Rockne; Ms of The Now and Future Church ; newsclippings.
CKNN 1996-281 : 1 linear inch. Proofs of book This Mam Bernardin by Kennedy; a few letters from Kennedy to Joan Didion, the New York Times, and Cardinal Bernardin; a letter from Lawrence D. Hogan to Kennedy reacting to Kennedy's criticism of Cardinal Ratzinger and the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in article "New Age Spirituality" from the Notre Dame Magazine (all dating from 1996).
1999-241 : 2.5'. Letters, notes, manuscripts of books and articles, and of of Pope John XXIII play; also galleys of Saul Bellow's book Him With His Foot In His Mouth , given by Bellow to Kennedy. 7 cassettes, including Am I Normal.
2000-155 : 3.5'. Typewritten manuscripts from books Rediscovering Authority (by EK and Sara C. Charles), Queen Bee , My Brother Joseph (Bernadin), Something Sacred , and The Pain of Being Human , with notes, drafts, and foul matter from some of them; notes for New York Times articles and other articles; shooting script for David Susskind PBS show I would Be Called John (Pope John XXIII); letters; notes from graduate psychology seminary taught by EK; material on Joseph Campbell. Newspaper clippings and other printed material. 2 audio cassettes and 1 video cassette. Floppy disks. 1 polaroid snapshot of Joseph Campbell.
2000-181 : 3'. Files from graduate psychology courses taught by EK at Loyola University, Chicago, including some class lists and grade sheets (restricted); columns written by Kennedy; material on Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, William F. Buckley, and Mike Barnicle; proofs of The Joy of Being Human . Newspaper clippings, whole issues of magazines in which Kennedy's work appears, and other printed material. Photos of EK with others including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Studs Terkel, and a World War One era family portrait of the Thomas H. Cullen family.
2001-256 : 2' 5". Religious News Service columns and related material; files on the priest pedophile crisis, suicide, counseling persons with sexual problems, psychiatric treatment of HIV positive patients, problems of healthy people, bishops' criticism of McBrien's new edition of Catholicism , Cardinal Bernardin; handwritten manuscript of Joseph Campbell chapter on metaphor in The Outer Reaches of Inner Space ; drafts of On Becoming a Counselor (with Sara C. Charles, MD). Copy of On Becoming a Counselor ; advance uncorrected readers' proof of Julie Parsons' novel Eager to Please .
2002-020 : 1' 3". Manuscript of The Unhealed Wound with related material; material related to article "Authority"; Gary Wills manuscript, Why I Am a Catholic ; and miscellaneous correspondence, email messages, clippings, dating chiefly from the 1990s.
2004-222 : 3'. Manuscripts of books, columns, articles, speeches; correspondence, email; printouts of web pages, photocopies, clippings, printed material; dating chiefly from 2000-2004, with a few earlier items.
2005-252 : 1' 3". Correspondence, emails, faxes, columns, articles, and manuscripts dating chiefly from the early 2000s.
2006-098 : 3". Material for Blogging Towards Bethlehem , 2003; columns, 2000s.
2006-257 : 3' 6". Manuscripts, reference files, and related material for his book on Authority; articles from Blogging Towards Bethlehem ; Defendant documents (1977-1983); files on the Harrisburg Seven (1972), the stage version of "I Would Be Called John," "Goddess" and the vocabulary of the Christian faith; an ethics complaint against a doctor (confidential), and the Joseph Campbell Project ; proofs of a Saul Bellow story, annotated by the author; and other papers. Two DVDs documenting speeches at a Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) meeting, 19 March 2005, "Faith that Dares to Speak".
2007-147 : 2' 6". Files on speaking engagements, Cardinal Bernardin, John T. Ellis, the USCCB and Catholic Colleges, Healing the Wound / The Unhealed Wound , Blogging Towards Bethlehem , Something Sacred , his columns, writings, appointment books, notebooks, clippings, and correspondence. Dating chiefly from the early years of the 21st century.
2008-004 : 2". Email messages, columns, notes, cards, letters, drafts, and photocopies, mostly from 2007.
2008-173 : 4' 7". Papers dating 1966-2006 consisting of court documents used in research for Defendant ; notes, galleys, correspondence regarding and reviews of some of h is books; general correspondence and email; subject files, articles, talks, columns, courses, and chronological files. Audio cassettes from research for Defendant , ca. 1985. Two DVD-RW disks with text of Blogging Towards Bethlehem . Copies of several of Kennedy's books.
2008-203 : 4' 1". Papers (1976-2007) consisting of correspondence, notes, columns, blogs, contracts, articles, page proofs of Defendant and Fixes, drafts of Fixes, and a screen play for a Knute Rockne film. Also a scrapbook of clippings, letters, telegrams with reactions to his books (including Himself and St. Patrick's Day) and awards. Newsletters by Eugene Kennedy (Stress 1973-1975, Insights #1-24, You 1969-1971); issues of Notre Dame Magazine with articles by Eugene Kennedy. 11 floppy disks including, among other things, computer files of Would You Like to be a Catholic and On Becoming a Counselor .
2008-341 : 5'. Correspondence, email printouts, columns, lectures, talks, drafts of books and articles, proofs, clippings; concerning church and politics, bishops, priests, clerical sex abuse; Something Sacred , The Pain of Being Human , Queen Bee ; Saul Bellow and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. One reel-to-reel audio tape; two DVD videos from a Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) meeting at which Kennedy spoke, 19 March 2005.
2008-343 : 1' 3". Chiefly material for book on Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (My Brother Joseph ); also notes on mythology, a script for a television play on Pope John XXIII, and clippings.
2008-399 : .1". Fifteen Katharine Hepburn letters, 1970-1971.
2009-364 : .1". Ten letters from Katharine Hepburn to Eugene Kennedy and/or Sara Charles (his wife), 1971-1973.