Composed of lecture notes, research, course materials, scholarly articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, travel journals, and photographs. Much of the material relates to the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, a nineteenth-century English Catholic convert, Jesuit, and poet. The collection also includes extensive course materials on the theology of Christ and Mary. Fay's personal diaries cover his experiences on pilgrimages to "the Holy Land," including stops in Israel, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. He also journaled about his time spent aboard the SS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1954, and his work as a chaplain for the U.S. Naval Communication Station in Nea Makri, Greece in 1968.