Description
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Wright; and an unpublished article by Frank de Guerre.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.
Background
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.
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