MS 6141, MS Acc08.095
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Bert Bailey
- Title
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Papers of Bert Bailey
- Date Range
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c. 1890-1952
- Collection Number
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MS 6141, MS Acc08.095
- Extent
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7.38 metres (38 boxes, 5 folio boxes, 6 folio items, 1 file)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection includes scripts of at least 80 plays, such as The Squatter's daughter and The Man from outback, as well as loose, untitled pages of playscripts and notebooks. Bert Bailey is most famously associated with the theatrical and film versions of On our selection, Dad and Dave come to town and Dad Rudd M.P. which are well documented here by scripts, stage directions, loose scripts, press cuttings, photographs and legal documents. Also featured are theatre programmes, posters and acting editions of plays. Press cuttings, printed matter and photographs include numerous theatre personalities. Personal and family correspondence and memorabilia are also included, notably an extensive collection of draft stories written by Doreen Bailey.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1072286).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Bert Bailey, National Library of Australia [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were donated to the Library by Doreen (Tim) Bailey in 1979. An addition of 27 boxes and 9 folio items was received in 1985, following the death of Doreen Bailey.
Material added on 29/7/80, which comprises 4 files and 1 folio, has been placed in a new collection, MS 6304. Contains Souvenir programs, photographs, playscripts for 'The squatter's daughter', 'The man from outback', 'My mate', 'A spirit of the bush', folio -1 (torn) photograph, wigs.
Biographical Note
Albert Edward (Bert) Bailey was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 11 June, 1868. He was the second son of Christopher Bailey (farmer) and his wife Harriette Adelaide (née Colgan, later McCathie). In about 1879 his mother remarried, moved to Sydney and founded a large drapery store. Bert was educated at the Cleveland Street Public School, then worked as a telegram boy and at a skating rink before entering vaudeville as a tambourine player and singer. In 1889, he joined Edmund Duggan Theatrical Company as a comedian in 1900. In1902 he married one of the Company's actresses, Ivy Isobel Gorrick, daughter of Albert Gorrick, solicitor of Newcastle and Cecilia (Hillcoat) Gorrick. Their only child Doreen Cecilia Bailey was born in November 1902.
Together Edmund Duggan and Bert Bailey wrote The Squatter's Daughter, a melodrama first produced by William Anderson in 1907. In 1910 Bailey produced a film version, with Duggan playing the bushranger Ben Hall and Bert himself playing a "new chum". [A 1933 sound copy of this film is held at ScreenSound Australia].
The partnership of Duggan and Bailey lasted for many years and was extremely productive. The plays they wrote (sometimes using the combined pseudonym of Albert Edmunds) included The Man from Outback (1909) and The Native Born. Their most popular success On Our Selection, based on the stories of Arthur Hoey Davis (pseudonym Steele Rudd), was first produced in 1912 and starred Bert Bailey as Dad Rudd. The play was presented regularly on the Australian stage until the 1930s. In 1920, Bert Bailey took the play to the Lyric Theatre, London.
To produce On Our Selection in 1912, Bailey went into partnership with Julius Grant. Basing their company at Anderson's 'Kings Theatre', Melbourne, they became one of the strongest entrepreneurial teams in Australian Theatre.
In 1921, Bailey produced Jefferson Wins Through and in 1922 The Sentimental Bloke, based on the poem by C.J. Dennis. Bert Bailey later took the part of Ginger Mick.
In 1932, Bailey co-directed - with Ken G. Hall - and starred in a film version of On Our Selection for Cinesound Studio, Sydney. During this period (on 24 September 1932), Ivy (Gorrick) Bailey died. Bert and his daughter Doreen (Tim) left Australia for a short time and toured China and Japan in late 1932 and early 1933. On Our Selection achieved record box-office success and three spin-offs followed. All starred Bert Bailey as Dad Rudd and Fred McDonald as Dave. These films were Grandad Rudd (1935), Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938) and Dad Rudd MP (1940).
In 1938 Bert and Doreen undertook a promotional tour of New Zealand with Dad and Dave Come to Town. Bert finally retired in 1940. His hobbies included sailing and bowls and he was a member of the Savage Club, Melbourne, Tattersalls and Rose Bay Bowling Club. While working, Bert Bailey's home base was a flat in Darlinghurst in Sydney, and he also owned a country house 'Kendal Grange', Lake Macquarie. He died on 30 March 1953 and was cremated with Anglican rites.
Doreen Bailey (affectionately known as Weet, Weetie or Tim) was born on 13 November 1902 and educated at the Catholic Ladies' College, East Melbourne and at the Church of England College, Baker Street, London, England. Tim Bailey spent the years (until Bert Bailey's death in 1953) as her father's close companion, travelling with him on tours with travelling plays, on location to film sets and on his overseas tours. She was a prolific writer.
On 8 May 1954 she married Roland Montrose McLean. Tim had several of her children's stories published by the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Pictorial Section of the National Library of Australia holds other Bailey material. See also Edmund Duggan's collection at MS 6304.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 6141. Original Consignment
Comprises series 1-6
Series 1. Play scripts
'Arkansas' Typescript sent from America 'Australia' Typescript: New York (File 1) - Box 1
'Back o' the big scrub' by Clarence Lee, Bulahdelah, N.S.W. (File 1) - Box 1
'Before the Gringoes came' H.D. Cottrel, set around Balinas Bay Typescript: America (File 2) - Box 1
'Ben my Chree' Typed in London (File 2) - Box 1
'Ben my Chree' Play and parts and music parts; oboe part has 'Wilson Barrett's Co' written on cover in the same handwriting as the title (File 3-5) - Box 1
'The Blue Grass king' A romantic melodrama in five acts by Malcolm Stuart Taylor: America (File 6) - Box 1
'Boss of Z Ranch' Three Act Comedy Drama of Western life by Nelson Compston (File 6) - Box 1
'Boy wanted' Typescript: America (File 6) - Box 1
'The bush whackers' Author unknown, set in Australia. Letter from Henry Fletcher to Bert Bailey in front cover (File 7) - Box 2
'By Three Moon Creek' Author unknown, scene: Central Queensland (File 7) - Box 2
'Cattle kin' "Wallick's Great American Drama" (File 8) - Box 2
'Checkers' Author unknown, set in America (File 8) - Box 2
'Choice' by "Telopea". Set in Australia. G.Wright C/- Wright and Apperly, 3 Spring St, Sydney (written inside cover) (File 8) - Box 2
'The convict and the girl' Author unknown, set in America (File 9) - Box 2
'The cowboy and the lady' Author unknown, set in America (File 9) - Box 2
'Dairy farm' Author unknown, set in America (File 9) - Box 2
'David Harum' Author unknown, set in America (File 9) - Box 2
'Dr Bill'} (File 10) - Box 2
'Dr Mclaren'} Set in 'Grumpy' (these are both parts not plays) (File 10) - Box 2
'Daughter of Marcana' Author unknown - not set in Australia (File 10) - Box 2
'Duncan McClure and the poor parson' by Steele Rudd (File 11) - Box 2
'Fedora' Act III only (File 12) - Box 2
'The flying scud' Part only (File 12) - Box 2
'The fools revenge' One scene only (File 12) - Box 2
'From farm to factory' by Ernest Lamson. Set in Arizona (File 12) - Box 2
'Gallipoli Bill' by Arthur H. Adams (File 13) - Box 2
'Playing the game' Typescript : New York (Property of Allen Doone) (File 13) - Box 2
'A gigantic liar' by George Hoeg'. Typescript : New York (File 13) - Box 2
'The girl of his heart' (missing?) (File 14) - Box 3
'Go easy Mabel' Parts only (File 14) - Box 3
'Go easy Mabel' Parts only (File 15) - Box 3
'Go easy Mabel' by Charles Goerge; set in New York (File 16) - Box 3
'Grand Duchess' Act II only; handwritten (File 16) - Box 3
'The great diamond robbery' Typescript : New York - author unknown (File 17) - Box 3
'The great John Ganton' Set in Chicago - author unknown (File 17) - Box 3
'Grumpy' Parts only (File 17) - Box 3
'Hector Macdonald' by J. Beresford, Fowler Brooke Aldous (File 18) - Box 3
'Homespun heart' by Hal Reid. Set in America (File 18) - Box 3
'The hookin 'o' Sandy' A Scottish comedy in three acts by T. Ross-Scott (File 18) - Box 3
'House of a thousand candles' Set in Indiana (File 18) - Box 3
'Jack and Jill' Book by John Tiller; pantomime (File 19) - Box 3
'The Jeffersons' Parts only (File 19) - Box 3
'Jefferson wins through' by Vincent Rupert Douglas; The story of a Lancashire family (File 19) - Box 3
'Just a girl' Set in Australia and England - Dramatisation by Charles Garvice from his book of the same name (File 20) - Box 3
'King and queen of gamblers' by Owen Davis; typescript: New York - set in America (File 21) - Box 4
'Knobs o' Tennesee'} Authors unknown - both set in America 'La Belle Maria'} (File 21) - Box 4
'The lady from Laramie' or 'The Cutest girl in town' by Mark E. Swan Set in England (File 22) - Box 4
'A lion's heart' Author unknown; set : France and New Caledonia (File 22) - Box 4
'Little Alabama' or 'The girl slave' - author unknown (File 22) - Box 4
'Lord Chumley' Author unknown; set in England (File 22) - Box 4
'The Little tenderfoot' Four act comedy by Roy Foster - set in America (File 23) - Box 4
'Mahoney's wedding' Author unknown; set in America (File 24) - Box 4
'Merchant of Venice' Part only (File 24) - Box 4
'Mrs McSweeney' Parts only typescript : Sydney (File 24) - Box 4
'Mrs Smith' This is a part for David Garrick (File 24) - Box 4
'Mrs Webb's waterhole' by Clarence Lee, Maitland N.S.W. (File 25) - Box 4
'My friend Jarlet' Part only (File 25) - Box 4
'O'Brien the contractor' Author unknown: typescript : America (File 25) - Box 4
'The old farms' Set in Australia (File 26) - Box 4
'Only a farmer's daughter' Comedy in five acts by Elliott Barnes; typescript : America (File 27) - Box 4
'Other people's money' Author unknown; Set in Chicago (File 27) - Box 4
'Our medical friend' Part only (File 27) - Box 4
'Playing the game' Handwritten: set in new York: author unknown (File 27) - Box 4
'Plot and passion' set in Chicago - author unknown (File 28) - Box 5
'Posey from Poseyville' Author unknown (File 28) - Box 5
'The proposal' handwritten; author known (File 28) - Box 5
'A ragged hero' Comedy-melodrama in four acts by Maurice J. Fielding (File 28) - Box 5
'At risk of his life?' (File 28) - Box 5
'Smithy' Screenplay by John Chandler and Alec Coppell based on an adaptation by Ken Hall and Max Afford. 1945 - Columbia Pictures (File 29) - Box 5
'Snobs and John' or 'John from Wollongong' by Clarence Lee; Bourke N.S.W. (File 30) - Box 5
The squatter's daughter by Bert Bailey Edmund Duggan (File 31) - Box 5
'A stranger in a strange land' Set in England (File 31) - Box 5
'Still waters run deep' Incomplete (File 31) - Box 5
'The telegram' Author unknown. Set in Australia (File 32) - Box 5
'Tell it to me' Not a play - seems to be a collection of "tall tales" (File 32) - Box 5
'That bloke Bert' or 'A bit of black velvet' or 'For the protection of bachelors' by Clarence Lee, Bulahdelah N.S.W. (File 33) - Box 5
'Three of us' } Author unknown, seems American 'Uncle Josh' } (File 34) - Box 5
'What happened to Mary' by Owen Davis (File 34) - Box 5
Set in Delaware Bay Typescript: New York (File 34) - Box 5
'York State folks' } Author unknown, seems American 'A young wife' } (File 35) - Box 5
Loose, untitled pages of playscripts notebooks (File 36-42) - Box 6
Series 2. On Our Selection
This script has since been published. Currency Press, 1984; edited by Helen Musa.
Scripts, parts and stage directions, loose scripts, press cuttings and photographs (File 43-54) - Box 7, 8
1 folio bundle of scripts, parts and stage directions, loose scripts, press cuttings and photographs (File [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 1
Series 3. Programmes and souvenirs
Many of Australia's early theatres, and the actors who made them famous, are featured in souvenir programmes. Among these theatres are Her Majesty's, the Theatre Royal, the Criterion, the Victoria and the Palace. Colourful posters advertise On our selection.
Other momentoes include acting editions of plays performed by the Bert Bailey Dramatic Company.
Programmes and souvenirs (File 55-59) - Box 8, 9
3 posters (1 x Lady of Lyons and 2 x On our selection) (File [unnumbered]) - Map-Folio [unnumbered]
(Stored in Map Cabinet Drawer no. 33)
Series 4. Photographs
There are several dozen photographs, mainly of Bert Bailey in his various character roles. Relatives and friends are included, particularly his daughter Doreen (Tim) Bailey. A number of Bailey's co-stars are pictured in theatre costume.
Photographs (File 60-64) - Box 9
1 folio bundle of photographs (File [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 4
Series 5. Press cuttings and printed matter
One volume contains issues of theatrical magazines with articles about Bert Bailey and his contemporaries. An issue of The Bulletin is dated November 30, 1895.
Issues of magazines and newspapers span Bailey's theatrical career. Cuttings include articles about numerous Bailey productions as well as those of other companies.
Press cuttings and printed matter (File 65-74) - Box 10, 11
3 folio bundles of press cuttings and printed matter (File [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 2, 3
Series 6. Miscellaneous
Correspondence, prescriptions, recipes, music scores, maps, sketches and caricatures (File 75) - Box 11
1 folio bundle of correspondence, prescriptions, recipes, music scores, maps, sketches and caricatures (File [unnumbered]) - Box 11
Class MS 6141. Consignment added 29 July 1980
Comprises series 7 to 39.
Series 7. Theatrical photographs
There are several hundred photographs in this series. The majority are of Bert Bailey and the casts of various productions of which he was a member. Many are taken in costumes. Also in the series are "stills" of the films On our selection (1932), Grandad Rudd (1935), Dad and Dave come to town (1938), Dad Rudd M.P. (1940) and individual photographs of Bert Bailey in costume. There are also photographs of colleagues in the theatre world and "behind the scenes" photographs "on location".
Album of photographs and newspaper clippings (1940) about Dad Rudd M.P. including a diary kept while on location (probably by Tim Bailey). (File 1) - Box 12
Individual photographs of Bert Bailey in various character poses. (File 2) - Box 12
Photographs of Bert Bailey and casts in various character poses. (File 3) - Box 12
Theatre audience (File 4) - Box 12
On location (File 5) - Box 12
Cinesound stills (File 6) - Box 12
Photograph of William Anderson of the William Anderson Theatre Company. (File 7) - Box 12
Bert Bailey and Julius Grant (File 8) - Box 12
Series 8. Personal photographs and postcards
This series comprises personal photographs of family and friends, including snapshots of pets, places and photographs taken while travelling. It also includes photographic postcards collected while travelling.
Commercially produced photographs for general distribution - some autographed. (File 9-10) - Box 13
Postcards and envelopes of travels - Australia, Ceylon (Sri-Lanka), China, Egypt, Great Britain, Hawaii, Hong Kong, New Zealand - some annotated. (File 11) - Box 13
Postcards of Japan - kept separately in a black wallet - from tour 1932 - 1933. (File 12) - Box 13
Family photograph album kept by Tim Bailey. Includes autographs. (File 13) - Box 13
Photograph album of tour of New Zealand in 1938 with Dad and Dave comes to town. Includes photographs of the Napier Earthquake of 1931. (File 14) - Box 13
Family photograph album kept by Tim Bailey 1918-22. (File 15) - Box 14
Photograph album - South-East Asia. (File 16) - Box 14
Photograph album - Kendal Grange, Lake Macquarie and individual photographs of Kendal Grange and Glen Ayr. (File 17) - Box 14
Photograph album - Lake Macquarie c.1900 (File 18) - Box 14
Photograph album; boat trip - Asia (File 19) - Box 14
Family photograph album c.1925 (File 20) - Box 15
Photographs from a brown envelope marked "Miss T.Bailey, 'Neptuna', develop and print 7 films" (File 21) - Box 15
Cinesound executive and visiting American, Adolph Zukor with Bert Bailey (File 22) - Box 15
Family photographs of Bert Bailey, Ivy Isobel (Gorrick) Bailey and Doreen Cecilia (Tim) Bailey. (File 23) - Box 15
Group photographs including either Bert Bailey and/or Tim Bailey (See also - Box 34: framed photograph of Bert Bailey and associates). (File 24) - Box 15
Personal photographs of Tim Bailey (File 25) - Box 15
Personal photographs of Bert Bailey (File 26) - Box 16
McCathie family photographs (File 27) - Box 16
Photographs of Ivy Isobel (Gorrick) Bailey with various family members. (File 28) - Box 16
Photographs of Gorrick and Hillcoat family members (File 29) - Box 16
Miscellaneous family photographs (File 30) - Box 16
Negatives (File 31) - Box 16
Proofs (File 32) - Box 16
Photographs of people - unidentified (File 33-35) - Box 17
Photographs of various places and ships, identified (File 36) - Box 17
See also Box 34 - framed photograph of 'Tim B'; panoramic photograph of Hong Kong and panoramic photograph [presumably of Sydney pre - 1932] - folio box 4.
Photographs (unannotated) of miscellaneous places, ships and pets (File 37) - Box 18
See also Box 34 - framed photograph - lady with cat, house.
Photograph of the headstone of the grave of Harriette Adelaide McCathie (formerly Bailey, née Colgan) - mother of Bert Bailey (File 38) - Box 18
McCathie family photographs / panorama - Sydney pre-1932 (folio) (File [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 4
Series 9. Plans for specifications for a Villa in Stonycreek Rd, Pymble NSW
Plans and specifications for a villa in Stonycreek Road. Pymble, NSW, for Bert Bailey on behalf of Mrs McCathie (File [unnumbered]) - Map-Folio [unnumbered]
(Stored in Map Cabinet Drawer no. 33)
Series 10. Coronation memorabilia
Programme of the Coronation of King William IV and Queen Adelaide on 8 September 1831 (folio) (File 39) - Box 18
Bells Weekly Messenger, 11 September 1831 covering the coronation, and the annotated wrapper which enclosed the newspaper in the mail (folio) (File 39) - Box 18
Series 11. Newspaper clippings
Newspaper scrapbook, owned by Tim Bailey, includes clippings of her publications printed in newspapers. (File 40) - Box 18
Newspaper clippings (File 76) - Box 18
Newspaper clippings (File 77) - Box 18
Newspaper clippings of articles written by A.S. and T.J. Henry. (File 78) - Box 19
Biographical newspaper clippings, Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, 1930s and 1940s. (File 79) - Box 19
Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 1973 (File 80) - Box 19
Newspaper clippings kept separately in enclosed envelope. (File 81) - Box 19
Newspaper clippings from clipping service on Bert Bailey. (File 82) - Box 19
Also includes clippings on World War I, obituaries etc.
Sunday Times (Sydney) 29 May 1892 (File 83) - Box 19
T.V. magazines 1971, 1972 with articles on Dad and Dave (File 84) - Box 19
Series 12. Congratulatory messages
Telegrams and letters of congratulation on the opening of On our selection at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 24 August 1920 (File 85) - Box 20
Series 13. Scripts
Note: Other scripts are contained in Series 14 - Notebooks.
Scripts - On our selection and Our story (File 86) - Box 20
Scripts - Granddad Rudd (File 87) - Box 20
Scripts - Granddad Rudd, includes costume list (File 88) - Box 20
Scripts - Granddad Rudd (File 89) - Box 20
Scripts - Granddad Rudd (File 90) - Box 20
Script - Granddad Rudd includes shooting schedule and interiors. (File 91) - Box 20
Script - 'The man from the outback' (File 92) - Box 21
Script - 'Native born' (File 93) - Box 21
Photocopy of the original production script of On our selection by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan - copied at NIDA. (File 94) - Box 21
Script, shooting schedule and working progress schedule Dad Rudd M.P. (File 95) - Box 21
Script Dad and Dave come to town (File 96) - Box 21
Pantomine script 'Sinbad the sailor' also several pages of On our selection, 'Cash', 'Dad Carlton', 'Possessions' by Neil F. Grant and other miscellaneous pages. (File 97) - Box 21
Series 14. Notebooks
Writings of both Bert Bailey and Tim Bailey are contained in a series of 56 notebooks.
Script - 'The piano pushers' by Will Collinson.
Scripts - 'Wolf woman' by Arthur Stringer (File 2-3) - Box 22
Bridge scorer in a leather case (File 4) - Box 22
Various ideas and jokes (File 5) - Box 22
A collection of poetry and sayings (File 6) - Box 22
Script - 'Album of photographs' (File 7) - Box 22
Notes on 'Cards' (File 8) - Box 22
Diary of Bert Bailey 1927 (File 9) - Box 22
By Roly Maclean (File 10) - Box 22
Diary of Tim Bailey (File 11) - Box 22
Diary ofTim Bailey, 1919 (File 12) - Box 22
French exercises (File 13-14) - Box 22
Diary 1932 (probably Tim Bailey's) (File 15) - Box 22
Quotations (File 16) - Box 22
Addresses (File 17) - Box 23
Housekeeping book (File 18) - Box 23
Gardening etc. (File 19) - Box 23
Travel diaries of Tim Bailey (File 20-24) - Box 23
18 notebooks containing writings by Tim Bailey (File 25-42) - Box 23
Notebook owned by Isa Stewart (6th Class) (File 43) - Box 24
Calendar/diary 1945 (File 44) - Box 24
Miscellaneous writings (File 45) - Box 24
Act 4 'The barn' (File 46) - Box 24
Account book belonging to Bert Bailey 1912 (File 47) - Box 24
Diary, 1917 (File 48) - Box 24
8 notebooks containing various writings of Tim Bailey (File 49-56) - Box 24
Series 15. Miscellaneous writings
Manuscript prose - various authors (File 98) - Box 24
'The art of slang slinging'
'Men are like fish', untitled
Poetry - includes: (File 99) - Box 24
'From Mt Eliza, Perth' by Annie Heatherington Mark
'How things' by T.E. Grattan-Smith
'Bais-l'abbe' - May 1918 (near Villers-Bretonneux) by V.A.F.
'The Persian kitty' Author unknown
'Why is a woman like the United Nations' Author unknown
'C'est Paris' Author unknown
'To a lady seen from a train' Author unknown
'Green' Hetty B. Scriptgiessen
'An old house and garden' by David Morton
'Hands'
'Once'
'On a little child'
'Little austere Annie'
'We shall not sleep'
The stockman (untitled)
Edward and Mrs Simpson (2 copies - untitled)
Series 16. Diary and newsletters of Norman Willis
Published diary of Norman Wallis (File 100) - Box 24
Newsletters from Norman Wallis, 1958 (File 101) - Box 25
Series 17. Legal and business documents and correspondence of Bert and Tim Bailey
Certificate of marriage; Indenture between A.H. Davis (Steele Rudd) and Bert Bailey/Julius Grant giving Bailey and Grant exclusive performing and producing rights to On our selection (1925); Agreement (1907) between Edmund Duggan/Bert Bailey and William Anderson giving William Anderson exclusive performing rights to The squatter's daughter; Performance rights agreements between Bailey/Grant and others for less well-known plays; Agreement (1912) between A.H. Davis (Steele Rudd) and Bert Bailey giving Bert Bailey right to produce a dramatic version of On our selection; various accounts to do with On our selection. Also includes sundry Gorrick family legal documents. (File 102) - Box 25
Legal documents and accounts of Tim Bailey (File 103) - Box 25
Includes: passports; copy of marriage certificate; correspondence relating to a fire in a Melbourne warehouse owned by Tim Bailey
Legal documents and correspondence - Tim Bailey (File 104) - Box 25
Includes: birth certificate, investment correspondence etc.
Contents of navy blue document case (File 105) - Box 25
Business correspondence of Bert Bailey, 1915-33 (File 106) - Box 25
Business correspondence of Bert Bailey, 1935-47 (File 107) - Box 26
Series 18. Family and personal correspondence
Personal correspondence of Bert Bailey and Ivy (Gorrick) Bailey, together with family trees (File 108) - Box 26
Family correspondence (addressed as such although some authors unknown) (File 109) - Box 26
Correspondence and clippings relating to the death of Jack Bailey (Bert's brother) in New Zealand in 1927. (File 110) - Box 26
Draft letters to Rol McLean from Tim Bailey (File 111) - Box 26
Draft letters to Dr Ross from Tim Bailey (File 112) - Box 26
Letters sent by Tim Bailey (File 113) - Box 26
Drafts of letters sent by Tim Bailey (File 114) - Box 27
Letters to Tim Bailey (see also File enclosed in Box 27) (File 115) - Box 27
Series 19. Magic
Magic Trick and notebooks on magic and gags, assorted playing cards. (File 116) - Box 27
Series 20. Music scores
Printed music score (File 41) - Box 27
Manuscript music scores - includes 'Laugh away care' which has been sung onto a sound-recording within the collection (folio run) by Tim Bailey (File 117) - Box 27
Series 21. Papers kept separately
Among the papers were a number of wallets with contents intact. It was decided to leave these as they were, in case the context was important.
Contents of large black lockable wallet includes photographs, letter; theatre brochures; Tourist brochures and certificate, also 2 copies of 'The Specialist' by Charles (Chic) Sale. (File 118) - Box 28
Green wallet and contents; Black wallet (File 119) - Box 28
Contents of black wallet (File 119) (File 120) - Box 28
Small black leather wallet and contents (File 121) - Box 28
Writing case belonging to Bert Bailey and monogrammed DAD (folio) (File 42) - Folio-Box 5
File - use unknown, monogrammed A.E.B. (File 43) - Box 28
Series 22. Family memorabilia
Gorrick family memorabilia (File 44) - Box 28
1st prize certificate - deck tennis from T.S.S. Nieuw-Zealand won by Miss D. Bailey and Mrs C.S. Byrnes; prize banner from Royal Melbourne Yacht Club for Bellive (folio) (File 45) - Folio-Box 5
Series 23. Menus and invitations
Menus and invitations (File 122) - Box 28
Series 24. Advertising pamphlets and cards
Theatre advertising: sundry advertising pamphlets and cards (File 123) - Box 28
Business cards (File 124) - Box 28
Series 25. Calendars, 1927 and 1968
Calendars (File 124) - Box 28
Series 26. Theatre programmes
Theatre programmes including: The squatter's daughter, 'Patsy', On our selection, Roméo et Juliette by Theatre National de L'Opera, Paris, Cinderella, pantomine. (File 125) - Box 28
Series 27. War related documents
File contains ration tickets, Ward Commandant Air Raid Report Forms and a list of Sector Wardens attached to Sector post 373, Darlinghurst (File 126) - Box 29
Series 28. Travel brochures
Travel brochures (File 127) - Box 29
Series 29. Miscellaneous papers
This series includes library lists, knitting patterns, wallet, Mahjong scorer, unused Christmas cards etc. (File 46) - Box 29
Series 30. Creative writing - Tim Bailey - draft stories
'The story that might have happened' (File 128) - Box 29
'Some Melbourne streets' (File 128) - Box 29
'Tango, the pup' (File 128) - Box 29
'Sauce for the gander' (File 128) - Box 29
'The distant shore' (File 128) - Box 29
'Story about old dark' - untitled (File 128) - Box 29
'From my grandmother's diary' (File 128) - Box 29
'God and the little girl' (File 128) - Box 29
Criticism of Richard III, Embassy Theatre, Sydney, 1956 (File 128) - Box 29
Extracts from the 'Young ladies treasure book' (File 128) - Box 29
'A man - a maid - and a dog' (File 128) - Box 29
'The Charleston' (File 128) - Box 29
'As hillmen desire their hills' (File 129) - Box 29
'Keeping myself on ice' (File 129) - Box 29
'The chirpings of a cheerful soul' (File 129) - Box 29
'A morning with the fishermen' (File 129) - Box 29
'Impersonal appearances' (File 129) - Box 29
'Duty or love' (File 129) - Box 29
'Bright years' (File 129) - Box 29
'The sleeping beauty of the north' (File 129) - Box 29
'The little woman without a home' (File 129) - Box 29
The story of a little girl growing up in Melbourne - untitled (File 129) - Box 29
'There is always the sky' (File 129) - Box 29
'Pan plays his pipes' (File 129) - Box 29
'Pierettes roses' (File 129) - Box 29
'On location with a film unit' (File 130) - Box 29
"He thought that power and success were the greatest things in life..." - untitled (File 131) - Box 29
'Janey' (File 131) - Box 29
'Notes on The wanderer' - see also Series 12 (File 131) - Box 29
Notebooks (File 131) - Box 29
'Spring Passes By' (File 131) - Box 29
'Virture' (File 131) - Box 29
'Going on a Yacht' (File 131) - Box 29
'The Man Aint Born' (File 131) - Box 29
'This Day I Dreamed' (File 131) - Box 29
'The Rivals' (File 131) - Box 29
'The House by the Lake' (File 131) - Box 29
'Going shopping' (File 132) - Box 30
'Going to a beauty salon' (File 132) - Box 30
'The nature of drama' (File 132) - Box 30
'Going to the cultural drama' (File 132) - Box 30
'The simple woman - the story of a woman who loved a garden' (File 132) - Box 30
'The sad garden' (File 132) - Box 30
'The dark harbour' (File 132) - Box 30
'Going on the harbour' (File 132) - Box 30
Draft stories - miscellaneous pages (File 133) - Box 30
Draft stories - miscellaneous pages (File 134) - Box 30
Draft stories - miscellaneous pages (File 135) - Box 30
Draft stories - miscellaneous pages (File 136) - Box 30
'Pins and needles' (File 137) - Box 30
'Pins and needles' (File 138) - Box 30
'Tok in spring' (File 139) - Box 31
'Tok in spring' (File 140) - Box 31
'Tok in spring' (File 141) - Box 31
'Bright bullion' (File 142) - Box 31
Notes on travel (File 143) - Box 31
Poetry by Tim Bailey (File 144) - Box 31
Children's stories: 'The adventures of the Faldoodle family' (File 145) - Box 31
Children's stories: 'The Buzzoowoo' (File 145) - Box 31
Children's stories: 'Selina Spriggens, sparrow spinster' (File 145) - Box 31
Children's stories: 'The princess who lost her voice' (File 145) - Box 31
Children's stories: 'The enchanted isle' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The pan and the snippy-snup-snap' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The tale of the tiny tree' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The little plain tree' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The tippity-top of the tree' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The little minute and the sky god' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Mulunga, the moon boy' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Who was the poodlepot' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The ginger cat and the poodle pot' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The tale of a tree' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The naughty elves' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Story of the wattle' (File 146) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Gypsy-gypsy' (File 147) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The cat Cuthbert' (File 147) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The little girl with the elves feet' (File 147) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'St Swithin's day' (File 147) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The fairy who lived opposite' (File 147) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'A bus romance' (File 148) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Book of mine' (File 148) - Box 32
Children's stories:Timsart (File 148) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'The gardens' (File 148) - Box 32
Children's stories: 'Miss Celephane Crust's cruise' (File 148) - Box 32
'The little beach' (File 149) - Box 32
'I was his wife' (File 150) - Box 32
Analysis of the Australian people - untitled (File 150) - Box 32
Series 31. Draft story by Roland McLean
'Departure' (File 151) - Box 32
Series 32. Sketches paintings
Sketches and paintings belonging to Tim Bailey (folio) (File 152) - Box 32
Series 33. Recipes, 1919-1955
Recipes (File 153-154) - Box 33
Series 34. Addresses
Addresses (see also address book in Series 14 - Notebooks) (File 47) - Box 33
Series 35. Diary of Doreen (Weet) Bailey, 1920
Titled 'A flapper's diary' (File 155) - Box 33
Series 36. Miscellaneous printed material
Legend walk by Melbourne Ward (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Reprint article: 'Melbourne Ward' from Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. Feb 24, 1967 (obituary of Melbourne Ward) (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Doreen by C.J. Dennis (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Whizz-bang petrol motors (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Great prayers of Famous Men (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Neptune Neptunus no.58 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
English as she is taught (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Brook's pocket book of pronunciations (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
How to use and enjoy a freezer (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
How to use a Corona Four Portable Typewriter (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Australian powerboat Vol.24, No.12, Sept 10, 1946 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Omar Khăyyám (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
The art of delivery by Maxwell Walker, Bowlers Handbook No.1 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Wheeler's review Spring 1963 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
The land of summer glee by Alice C. Wilkinson (poor condition) (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Tot's tales by Cue (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
The charm of Sydney by Sydney Ure Smith / Bertram Stevens (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Etchings and Engravings, Historical and Decorative by Early Modern Masters no.523, Haggs Bros., London, 1929 (poor condition) (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Francis Holland (Church of England) School, Clarence Gate (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Regents Park N.W. Information Booklet (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Destination Circular Quay - a pictorial review of Sydney's tramcars (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
New Traffic Arrangements for approaches to [Sydney] (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Harbour Bridge...from 11 a.m. 2 July 1959 D.M.R. (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Catalogue of prices for used Australasian stamps (April 1900) (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Statutes - Convent General and Great Priory (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Catalogue: The Burdekin House Exhibition. October 8th till December 21st, 1929 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 33
Series 37. Maps
Europe, annotated (folio) (File [unnumbered]) - Map-Folio [unnumbered]
(Stored in Map Cabinet Drawer no. 33)
Philippines, Patco Airlines Routes (folio) (File [unnumbered]) - Map-Folio [unnumbered]
(Stored in Map Cabinet Drawer no. 33)
Lake Macquarie, inscribed by D.H. Watkins (folio) (File [unnumbered]) - Map-Folio [unnumbered]
(Stored in Map Cabinet Drawer no. 33)
Series 38. Sound recordings
Record - 78 rpm: 'Where the bee sucks' - 'Laugh away care / Happy birthday ballad selection' (File 1) - Folio-Box 5
Record - 78 rpm: 'Big Ola and Rosalil/Clair de Lune Peter' (Manuscript of 'Laugh away care' is contained in Series 20 File 117) (File 2-3) - Folio-Box 5
Outsize Photographs, including Japanese garden; Bellive (2) - Yacht owned by Bert Bailey; Person - name inscribed but illegible (File [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 5
Series 39. Miscellaneous objects
Brown file Pencil sketch - Beadle '44 (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Small brush Framed photograph - 'Tim B' (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Black frame Film rolling apparatus (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Commemorative photograph George VI and Queen Elizabeth (metal) (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Framed photograph - Bailey and associates (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Framed photograph - lady with cat (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Framed photograph - house (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 34
Rubber stamp - "Grandad Rudd a/c" (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Oval wooden stand (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Bill clips (2) (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Yacht pennant (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Torch? (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Handles and straps (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Metal cannister and lids (2) (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Leather writing case - embossed (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Wooden writing case and matching letter opener - embossed (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 35
Stereoscope Cloth wallet (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Placemat Tool - mandrill? (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Fan Scissors (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Trophy Brush (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Pin-cushion Letter opener (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Key in wallet Chopstick (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
(3) Frame backs Gold plastic wallet (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 36
Chest X-ray (folio run) (Item [unnumbered]) - Folio [unnumbered]
Braid (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 37
Bottle, empty, labelled 'Commercial Pure Liquid Gum' (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 37
Braid, silk scarf, cushion cover (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 38
Class MS 6141. Consignment added 15 November 1985
Comprises series 39.
Series 39. Miscellaneous objects (continued)
Autographed certificate from the Melbourne Savage Club 1912 (Item [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 4
Autographed menu 1921 (Item [unnumbered]) - Folio-Box 4
Class MS Acc08.095. Consignment added 2008
Comprises a black and white photographic portrait of Bailey's mother, Harriette Adelaide McCathie.
Contained in 1 file.