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Call Number: SC0020
Creator:
Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963
Title: Margery Bailey papers
Dates: 1912-1978
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence with actors, actresses, theatrical people,
dramatists and writers; materials relating to the English Club and the Dramatists
Alliance at Stanford, the Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, Oregon, the Institute of
Renaissance Studies, and theater productions at Stanford, 1935-36; letters to former
students Robert A. Brauns, Myna B. Hughes, H. Arthur Klein, Thomas Seller, and Grace
Margaret Webster, 1930-63, collected by Phillip Persky for his edition of "Letters of
Margery Bailey," SAN JOSE STUDIES; photocopies of Bailey correspondence regarding John
P. Marquand, Clarence Darrow, Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Irvin S. Cobb, and
Harold Bell Wright; and an unpublished article by Frank de Guerre. Material about Miss
Bailey's work includes term papers of her students, her own papers as a student, lecture
and research notes, reprints of her articles and papers on the humanities at
Stanford.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of estate of Margery Bailey, 1964; gift of Phillip Persky, 2002; photocopies
gift of Robert Gros.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Margery Bailey Papers (SC0020). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Materials pertaining to John P. Marquand, Clarence Darrow, Gertrude Stein, Robinson
Jeffers, Irvin S. Cobb, and Harold Bell Wright are photocopies of originals in
private hands.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Margery Bailey was a professor of English at Stanford University from 1914-1963. She was
active in Stanford dramatics and was involved in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at
Ashland, Orgeon as both an actress and as a director.
Correspondence with actors, actresses, theatrical people, dramatists and writers;
materials relating to the English Club and the Dramatists Alliance at Stanford, the
Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, Oregon, the Institute of Renaissance Studies, and
theater productions at Stanford, 1935-36; letters to former students Robert A. Brauns,
Myna B. Hughes, H. Arthur Klein, Thomas Seller, and Grace Margaret Webster, 1930-63,
collected by Phillip Persky for his edition of "Letters of Margery Bailey," SAN JOSE
STUDIES; photocopies of Bailey correspondence regarding John P. Marquand, Clarence
Darrow, Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Irvin S. Cobb, and Harold Bell Wright; and an
unpublished article by Frank de Guerre. Material about Miss Bailey's work includes term
papers of her students, her own papers as a student, lecture and research notes,
reprints of her articles and papers on the humanities at Stanford.
Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963
Brauns, Robert A.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944.
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
Hughes, Myna B.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.
Klein, H. Arthur.
Marquand, John P. (John Phillips),
1893-1960.
Oregon Shakespearian Festival.
Persky, Phillip.
Seller, Thomas.
Stanford University. Dept. of Speech and Drama
--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dramatists Alliance.
Stanford University. English Club.
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
Webster, Grace Margaret.
Wright, Harold Bell, 1872-1944.
Actors.
Class notes.
College teachers.
College theater.
Dramatics.
Lecture notes.
Letters.
Research notes.
Theater.