Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4113
JAMES OSLER BAILEY PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Writings and addresses by James Osler Bailey
(1903-1979) about Thomas Hardy, Victorian literature,
and science fiction, and the teaching of reading and
writing. Subject files include teaching plans, course
syllabi, course examinations, subject notes, and a few
letters from graduate students. Also included are a
play, Strike Song: A Play of the Southern Mills,
written by Bailey and his wife, Loretto Carroll
Bailey, in 1929; material relating to William T.
Couch; the Friends of the Library at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Turkey, where
Bailey taught, 1954-1957.
Online Catalog Terms:
Bailey, James Osler, 1903- .
Bailey, James Osler, 1905- . Strike song: A play of the
southern mills.
Bailey, Loretto Carroll, 1908- .
Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901- .
Dramatists, American--North Carolina--20th century.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
English literature--19th century.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Language arts--North Carolina.
Reading--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--20th
century.
Science fiction--History and criticism.
Southern States in literature.
Strikes and lockouts in literature.
Turkey--Description and travel.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Friends of the
Library.
Size: About 200 items (2.5. linear feet).
Provenance: Received from James Osler Bailey, Chapel Hill,
N.C., November 1976, and from the English
Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, September 1981. An addition was received
from the English Department in June 1985.
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Writings and Addresses
Series 2. Subject Files
Series 3. Miscellaneous Material
Shelf List
INTRODUCTION
Biographical Note
James Osler Bailey was born in Raleigh, North Carolina,
12 August 1903. He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the PhD in 1934. He
was a high school teacher for one year, was an assistant
professor at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, and
advanced from instructor to Alumni Distinguished Professor in the
English Department, UNC-CH, 1927-1971. Under the auspices of the
U. S. State Department, Bailey taught in Istanbul, Turkey,
1956-1957.
Bailey's principal scholarly interest was the work of Thomas
Hardy, about which he published numerous essays and two books.
Other interests included other writers of the Victorian period,
the teaching of writing skills, and early science fiction (the
subject of his dissertation). His books included Pilgrims
Through Space and Time: Trends and Patterns in Scientific and
Utopian Fiction (1947, reprinted 1972), Creative Exercises in
College English: A Year's Work in the Practice of Writing and
Reading (1952), Thomas Hardy and the Cosmic Mind: A New Reading
of the Dynasts (1956), and The Poetry of Thomas Hardy: A Handbook
and Commentary (1970).
Bailey married twice, first to Loretto Carroll, and second to
Mary M. He had one daughter, Nancy. Bailey died 30 October
1979, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Collection Overview
About one-half of these papers are typed and printed versions
of writings and addresses by J. O. Bailey, from an article
published as an undergraduate in The Carolina Magazine to
speeches delivered after his retirement. Filed with a few of
these works are letters relating to them. Other material
consists of subject files, which include teaching plans, course
syllabi, subject notes, course examinations, graduate student
files, and reflections on JOB's year in Turkey, and a collection
of miscellaneous items.
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Writings and Addresses
1924-1975 and undated. About 150 items.
Principally typed and printed versions of essays, book
reviews, book-length manuscripts, and speeches by J. O. Bailey,
totaling eighty-five different works. Some of these works are
annotated with publication data or date and place of delivery;
some are unpublished. Pertinent letters, chiefly relating to
publication arrangements, are filed with the writings to which
they refer.
Forty-one of these works relate primarily to Thomas Hardy.
Other prominent subjects are the work of other literary figures
of the Victorian period, science fiction, and teaching and
learning reading and writing skills. Also included is the text
of Strike Song: A Play of the Southern Mills, written by JOB and
his wife Loretto Carroll Bailey in 1929. The titles of works
included are noted in the Container List.
About Thomas Hardy
Folder 1. "Ancestral Voices in Jude the Obscure"
2. "Astrology?: Stats, Sun, and Moon in Hardy's Work"
3. "Autobiography in Hardy's Poems"
4. "Changing Fashions in Hardy Scholarship"
5. "The Conference on English Literature in
Transition, MLA, 1966" (Remarks on Hardy's Poetry)
6. "Dreams and Disasters in Hardy's Poetry"
7. "Echoes of Hardy's Life in His Works" (a review of
Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography, by J. I. M.
Stewart
8. "Evolutionary Meliorism in the Poetry of Thomas
Hardy"
9. "Fact and Fiction in Hardy's Poetry"
10. "Far From the Madding Crowd" and "Hardy, Thomas,"
in The Encyclopedia Americana
11. "The Ghosts of `Wessex Heights'"
12. "Hardy, Thomas," in New Catholic Encyclopedia
13. "Hardy and the Modern World"
14. "Hardy's `Imbedded Fossil'"
15. "Hardy's "Immortal Will" as `Cosmic Mind'"
16. "Hardy's Italian Pilgrimage-, with Baedeker"
17. "Hardy's Living World"
18. "Hardy's `Mephistophelian Visitants'"
19. "Hardy's `Poems of Pilgrimage'"
20. "Hardy's `President of the Immortals'"
21. "Hardy's Repeated Scenes"
22. "Hardy's Treatment of Facts in His Fiction"
(a review of Hardy's Wessex Reappraised, by
Denys Kay-Robinson, and Thomas Hardy and Rural
England, by Merryn Williams
23. Hardy's Vision of Man, by F. R. Southerington
(a review)
24. "Hardy's Vision of the Self"
25. "Heaven Versus Utopia: Concepts of the Moral Order
in Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy"
26. "Heredity as Villain in the Poetry and Fiction of
Thomas Hardy"
27. "Heredity in the Works of Thomas Hardy"
28. "Notes on The Queen of Cornwall"
29. One Rare Fair Woman: Thomas Hardy's Letters to
Florence Henniker, 1893-1922. Evelyn Hardy and
F. P. Pinion, eds. (a review)
30. "Pessimism and Meliorism in Hardy's Poetry"
31. The Poems of Thomas Hardy: A Critical
Introduction, by Kenneth Marsden (a review)
32. "`The President of the Immortals' in the Works of
Thomas Hardy"
33. "Professor Page's `"Wessex Heights" Revisited'"
34. "A Reinterpretation of Hardy's The Dynasts"
35. "Sacred and Profane Time in Thomas Hardy's Novels
and Poems," by Dwayne Howell (a commentary)
36. "Temperament and Motive in The Return of the
Native"
37. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," in The Encyclopedia
Americana
38. Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist, by Michael
Millgate (a review)
39. Thomas Hardy's Epic-Drama: A Study of The Dynasts,
by Harold Orel (a review)
40. "The Whirligig of Time in Hardy's Novels"
41. Untitled (about Thomas Hardy and religion)
About Other Topics
42. After the Trauma: Representative British Novels
Since 1920, by Harvey Curtis Webster (a review)
43. "Alfred in Puppet Land"
44. "Bernard Shaw Letters Donated to the Library of
the University of North Carolina by Dr. Archibald
Henderson"
45. Carlyle and His Contemporaries: Essays in Honor of
Claude Richard Sanders. John Clubbe, ed. (a
review)
46. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, by Edgar
Johnson (a review)
47. Circle of Fire: Dickens' Vision and Style and the
Popular Victorian Theater, by William F. Axton (a
review)
48. "Devil's Angel"
49. The Early H. G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific
Romances, by Bernard Bergonzi (a review)
50. "Effects of Science on the Language" (introduction
to a panel with that title)
51. "The Evolution of Pilgrims"
52. "An Experiment in Teaching Freshman English to a
Large Class"
53. George Eliot: A Biography, by Gordon S. Haight (a
review)
54. "Gilbert's Voice in the Wilderness"
55. "Harvard, Yale, Princeton Required English"
56. "`The Historia Calamitatum of Peter Abelard and
His Wife, Eloise'" (a dramatization)
57. "The Historical, Social, and Industrial Background
of the Prose Literature in the Victorian Period"
58. Matthew Arnold and American Culture, by John Henry
Raleigh (a review)
59. More Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group of Honest
Doubters, by Basil Willey (a review)
60. Nineteenth-Century Literary Perspectives: Essays
in Honor of Lionel Stevenson. Clyde de L. Ryals,
ed. (a review)
61. "Noah Webster's Advice"
62. "An Old Timer's Message to New Students"
63. "On Science Fiction"
64. The One Act Plays of Lee Arthur. Paul Nolan, ed.
(a review)
65. "Poe's Interest in Science and Pseudo-Science"
66. "Poe's `Stonehenge'"
67. The Red Lily, by Anatole France (a review)
68. "A Road to a Brave New World" (a review of The
Human Condition, by William T. Couch)
69. "Science in the Dramas of Henry Arthur Jones"
70. "Shaw's Life Force and Science Fiction"
71. "The Short Story"
72. "The Significance of Science Fiction, 1871-1914"
73. "Sources of William Morris' Defence of Guenevere"
74. Strike Song: A Play of the Southern Mills (with
Loretto Carroll Bailey)
75. Suskind, Albert Irving (Faculty Memorial, with
J. P. Harland, Alfred Engstrom, and P. H. Epps)
76. Tennyson, Sir Charles (introduction before an
address)
77. "The Utopian Search for Social Order"
78. "Victorian Compromise" (a review of The New
Republic or Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an
English Country House, by W. H. Mallock)
79. "Vocabulary as a Factor in Reading Efficiency"
80. "Voyages to the Moon in Science Fiction"
81. "What Happens in Poetry?"
82. "What Happens in `The Fall of the House of
Usher'?"
83. "Words in Reading"
84. "Yellow from the Mustard Pot" ( a review of The
Yellow Book, Norman Denny, comp.)
85. Untitled ("...how I came to write Pilgrims through
Time and Space)
Series 2. Subject Files
1956-1976 and undated. About 340 items.
Files devoted to William T. Couch, The Friends of the Library,
Archibald Henderson, teaching material, and Turkey, consisting
of: copies of letters principally about The Human Potential, by
W. T. Couch, and a letter to JOB from A. N. J. den Hollender, a
mutual friend of JOB and WTC; letters from JOB as chairman of The
Friends of the Library (UNC-CH) to members of that organization,
and other material about The Friends, 1975-1976; two letters from
Archibald Henderson to JOB about the value of George Bernard Shaw
material given by AH to the UNC library and about a silhouette
which AH had made of himself and GBS; teaching material,
including plans, syllabi, synopses, and annotated copies of works
by Thomas Hardy, for an undergraduate course and graduate
seminars; and reminiscences and reflections about Turkish culture
and education and Turkish-American cultural exchanges, reports,
and other documents relating to JOB's year of teaching in Turkey,
1956-1957. The 1985 addition of subject files included subject
notes on literature and various authors; teaching material,
including syllibi, examinations, and synopses; and three graduate
student files.
Folder 86-87. Arnold, Matthew
88. Bennett, Arnold
89. Bradford, J. Kenneth
90. Brontes, Charlotte and Emily
91. Browning, Robert
92. Carlyle, Thomas
93. Couch, William T.
94. Eliot, George
95. English 73-174
96. English 78
97. English 81
98. English 175
99. English 273
100. English 274
101. English 320-Dickens
102. English 320-Hardy and Eliot
103. English 373
104. English 373-Hardy seminar
105. English 373-Late Victorians
106-107. Exams - Graduate
108. Exams - Shakespeare
109. Friends of the Library
110. Garrow, Scott
111. General College 9: Seminar on Hardy
112. Gregory, Lady
112a. Hardy Society of Japan
113. Henderson, Archibald
114. Holland, Gil
115. Kerrick, George
116. Macaulay, Thomas B.
117. Meredith, George
118. Mill, John Stuart
119. Morris, William
120. Newman, J. H.
121. Nineteenth Century Drama
122. Novel
123. Osborne, Lowell
124. Pater, Walter
125. Pinero
126. Roetzel, Priscilla
127. Ruskin, John
128. Teaching Materials
129. Thomas, Augustus
130. Turkey
131. Wilde, Oscar
Series 3. Miscellaneous Material
1957-1980 and undated. About 15 items.
A list of "articles by J. O. Bailey, not available in typed
copies;" material related to Modern Language Association sessions
on science fiction; a copy of "Sacred and Profane Time in Thomas
Hardy's Novels and Poems," by Dwayne Howell; and other material
related to studies of Hardy and Victorian literature.
Folders 132-133.
SHELF LIST
Box 1. Writings and Addresses (folders 1-85)
Subject Files (folders 86-91)
Box 2. Subject Files (folders 92-131)
Miscellaneous Material (folder 133)