Margery Bailey scrapbook and diary

Collection — Box: 01

Identifier: MSS-018

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The donation includes biographical notes compiled by Bailey Cummings in 2010, with material from “Sandstone and Tile,” by W. B. Carnochan, published in Stanford Historical Quarterly, v. 26, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2002); and “The True Adventures of John Steinbeck,” a biography by Jackson Benson. Benson’s book details Bailey’s association with Steinbeck, who attended Stanford between 1919 and 1925. By Benson’s account, Bailey was a famously difficult teacher whose withering criticisms helped sharpen Steinbeck’s prose style. Excerpts from a letter Steinbeck sent to Bailey on the occasion of her retirement in 1956 are reprinted from “The True Adventures of John Steinbeck.”

Dates

Majority of material found within 1910-1914, 1963

Creator

Bailey, Margery (Compiler, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright and any related rights protect materials in this collection. Researchers are free to use these materials for any purpose that is permitted by the copyright and any rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, researchers need to obtain permission from the rights holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

For fair use/educational reproduction, please provide the following credit: From the Margery Bailey scrapbook and diary, courtesy of Southern Oregon University Hannon Library.

Biographical / Historical

Margery Bailey served on the faculty of Stanford University’s English Department from 1915 to 1956, and was active with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. She founded the festival’s Institute for Renaissance Studies and was its director until her death in 1963.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

A scrapbook compiled by Margery Bailey during her undergraduate years (1910-1914) at Stanford University, and Bailey’s 1963 diary, kept during the last months of her life.