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J. O. (James Osler) Bailey

1903–1979 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as J. O. Bailey → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Department of English; Adams, Raymond, 1898-1987; Bailey, J. O. (James Osler), 1903-1979; Russell, Harry K. (Harry Kitsun), 1902-1996 · 1944 · English Dept., University of North Carolina

A 1944 circular in which an English department committee at the University of North Carolina laid two proposals before the whole faculty: a correlated curriculum, and the so-called 1-2-1 plan, splitting college into an opening year, a two-year major and a closing year. Raymond Adams, J.O. Bailey and H.K. Russell signed it.

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James Osler Bailey papers, 1924-1976.

Bailey, J. O. (James Osler), 1903-1979 · 1924

Two hundred items in 2.5 linear feet make up the papers of the literary scholar J. O. Bailey (1903-1979), covering 1924 to 1976, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4113. Topics include science fiction criticism, the work of Thomas Hardy, the play 'Strike song: a play of the Southern mills' and Loretto Carroll Bailey, with further material on William T. Couch and the Friends of the Library at Chapel Hill.

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  1. The Playmakers stage Strike Song, a new play about Southern mill workers Loretto Carroll Bailey's Strike Song, a full-length play about Southern mill people written with her husband J. O. Bailey, was produced for three nights in December 1931. Henderson calls it her most ambitious work. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey, J. O. (James Osler) BaileyArchibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 110

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