Guide to the Margery Bailey Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
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Harold Bell Wright; and an unpublished article by Frank de Guerre.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
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Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of estate of Margery Bailey, 1964; gift of Phillip Persky, 2002; photocopies
gift of Robert Gros.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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Cite As
Margery Bailey Papers (SC0020). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Alternative Formats
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
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.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 4
Outgoing correspondence, 1952-1963
Box 1, Folder 6
Robert Gros photocopies of manuscripts of the following writers: John
P. Marquand, John P. Marquand, Clarence Darrow, Gertrude Stein, Robinson
Jeffers, Irvin S. Cobb, Harold Bell Wright
Box 1, Folder 7
Letters of recommendation written by M. Bailey
Box 1, Folder 8
Memos and letters anent review of courses, assignments, etc, for S. U.
Dept. of English, 1942-44
Box 1, Folder 9
Survey of the quality of the compositions of Stanford students,
1917
Box 1, Folder 10
Dramatists' Alliance: history and related papers, 1935-56, including
letter to Cyril Clemens, Sept. 28, 1940
Box 1, Folder 10A
Dramatists' Alliance: photographs
Box 1, Folder 10B
Dramatists' Alliance: photographs
Box 1A, Folder 11
Dramatists' Alliance: miscellaneous papers
Box 1A, Folder 12
Views on undergraduate education: teaching vs. research,
1954-55
Box 1A, Folder 13
Veterans Theater of the Air
Box 1A, Folder 14
Music of Southern Americas, 1943
Box 1A, Folder 15
Frank de Guerre: unpublished article "David Belasco as I know
him"
Box 1A, Folder 16
Term papers submitted to M. Bailey
Box 2, Folder 18
Pageant book of the English production of Service, 1919
Box 2, Folder 19
1948 Shakespeare Festival of Oregon
Box 2, Folder 20
1949 Shakespeare Festival of Oregon
Box 2, Folder 21
Institute of Renaissance Studies & Shakespeare Festival
Association, 1959-62 (includes class records and final
examinations)
Box 2, Folder 22
Course in Shakespearean production at Stanford, summer 1935
Box 2, Folder 23
Shakespeare Guilde of America, 1946-47 production of Othello based on
1935 Stanford production
Box 2, Folder 24
Course in stage classics production at Stanford, 1936
Box 3
Notes, articles, etc., from a file marked "Old Papers" and covering
Boswell, Chaucer, dialect, Frankenstein, Jonson, Osborn, Sierra, ballads, Pope,
novels, Bunyan, and Ossian.
Box 4, Folder 25
Printed material by and about M. Bailey
Box 4, Folder 26
Unpublished manuscripts: "The man of the world"
Box 4, Folder 27
Manuscript on Celtic origins
Box 4
Bound volume of tests taken by Bailey as a Stanford student,
1912-1913
Box 4
Copy of Bailey's book Whistle for Good Fortune
Box 4
Sample notebook of M. Bailey
Addenda
March 1966 and April 1994
Box 5, Folder 28
Letters: Bailey to James S. Sandoe, 1944-55 (41); Sandoe to Bailey,
1937-51 (65); Bailey to Wallace Stegner, 1950 (1)
Box 5, Folder 29
"Foreign letters," 1927-28. Handwritten and typed copies. Some by M.
Bailey, some inidentified; written while on European sojourn.
Box 5, Folder 30
"The Amateur Traveler" by Bailey
Box 5, Folder 32
"Letters of Margery Bailey," San Jose Studies, Winter
1991
Box 5, Folder 33
Manuscript music for several songs written by Bailey, 1945 and
undated, with a letter from James Lawson, 1946
