Professional and personal correspondence, lecture notes and other philosophy course materials, speeches and writings related to Professor Kennick's career as a professor of philosophy at Amherst College. Letters are mostly incoming correspondence from former students, fellow faculty members and administrators at Amherst. Correspondents include Profs. Theodore Baird, William Pritchard, and Jerold Rothstein (AC 1962); Amherst College Presidents Calvin Plimpton and John William Ward; and former students, David Foster Wallace (AC 1985) and Hardy Culver Wilcoxon (AC 1974). Also included are Professor Kennick's 6-volume typescript on the history of philosophy and a binder of printed material entitled collectively "A Gallimaufry of Materials for Use in My Philosophy Courses." Among his writings are published articles and a personal memoir. The collection also includes ca. 40 letters of condolence to Mrs. Nancy Kennick after her husband's death in 2009.

This collection is organized into five series:

• Correspondence, 1951-2006
• Writings and speeches, 1947-2000 and n.d.
• Teaching materials and student work, 1958-2002
• Honors, ephemera, photographs, 1954-2005
• Posthumous material, 2009