Reports, correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, agenda, and photographs, 1954-1966, having to do with CRS programs in the far east, including files on Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, the Fiji Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaya, Okinawa, Pakistan, East Pakistan, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the Tonga Islands, and Vietnam; with speeches by Monsignor Harnett and a short series of personnel files.

Also reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and clippings, 1980-1985, with files on the International Catholic Migration Commission, United States government grants to CRS, earthquakes in Italy and Chile, and famine in Ethiopia.

Correspondence with Rita Pfeifer suggests that Monsignor Harnett had been weeding his files at the end of his life. Several folders were empty when they arrived at Notre Dame; these have been listed before printed material at the end of the inventory. Other files may contain only items consciously chosen by Monsignor Harnett; e.g., folders labeled "Monthly Reports" do not contain a report for each month but only a few samples. The correspondence files from 1966 do not seem to have been weeded in this way.

For purposes of preservation, printed items and photographs have been removed and stored separately. A list of printed material appears at the end of this inventory. Photographs have generally been copied on acid-free paper and the copy left in place of the photographic print.