Articles, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, photographs documenting the religious and professional life of Francis W. Sweeney, S.J., a twentieth-century American author, educator, and Boston College faculty member. Correspondence includes letters from J. A. Appleyard, Thomas Merton, publishing companies, and members of the Sweeney family. Manuscript and published versions of many of Sweeney's articles, book reviews, monographs, and poems are included. Sweeney's career at Boston College, including his work as faculty-moderator to the student publication The Stylus and various committee assignments are in evidence as well.