Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0020
Creator:
Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963
Title: Margery Bailey papers
Dates: 1912-1994
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Irvin S. Cobb, and Harold Bell Wright; and an unpublished article by Frank de Guerre.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
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
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
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.
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. Department 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.