Papers of Mary Bailey

Letters from Mary to her parents while she was in Berlin, [1946]

Typescript documents:

'European Issues: a report of the Ecumenical Commission on European Co-operation'

'Encounters in 1953' (in German)

'The number of refugees is always great and the question louder: why all these people flee' (in German)

'A letter from East Germany'

'Confidential: thoughts on University reform in the German Democratic Republic'

'Secret: the Evangelical Church in the Soviet Zone'

Copy of a minute from Mary Bailey to Mr Warr (9 May 1951) on the 'Attitude of the Evangelical Church to current political issues' (with draft)

Confidential minute to Mr Warr on 'The Evengelical Church and re-armament', 8th October 1950

Copy of a minute from Mary Bailey (14th November 1951) to Mr Warr on 'The attitude of the Evangelical Church to the German defence contribution and to the unity of Germany'

Minute from Mary Bailey to Mr Malcolm on the 'Synod of the Evangelical Church of Berlin Brandenburg', 21st February 1951

Note by Mary Bailey on the 'Synod of the Evangelical Church of Berlin Brandenburg', 5th March 1951

Confidential note on 'The Church Congress in Berlin', 23rd August 1951

Confidential minute from Mary Bailey to Mr Warr on 'Berlin Kirchentag', 24th July 1951

Note on 'Kirchentag, Essen', n.d. (probably 1951)

Confidential note by C C West on the Evangelical Church in the East Zone of Germany, August 1952

Confidential note by C C West on 'Some practical problems of Christian living in the East', October 1951

Confidential note on 'Reforming the universities in the DDR', January 1952 (in German)

'The uncomfortable church', October 1950

'A national survey in the East Zone, 3 June 1951'

'The situation in the East Berlin schools' (in German), 23rd January 1951

'Thoughts and proposals on school design in West Berlin', 21st December 1950

'God's beloved East-Zone', 1951 (with German original)

'The poor relations', August 1952

Extract from 'Neues Deutschland', 14/5/50, containing an extract from a resolution regarding the draft to be submitted at the 3rd SED Party Rally on 'The present situation and the tasks of the SED'

Translated copy of a letter from Dr Dibelius (Head of the Berlin-Brandenburg Kirchenleitung), 1950

Info from Gemma Moss:

Mary Bailey, born 1913. Father Cyril Bailey, a don at Baliol College, Oxford University. Teacher just pre-war at Roedean. Evacuated to Keswick during WW2. At the end of the war her cousin, Tom Creighton, had an army role in education in Germany. Mary went to Berlin in 1945 and was there throughout events such as the Berlin Airlift - working for Evanglical Affairs. She returned to England in the early 1950s and became a classics teacher in Bristol. She was later Head at the Simon Langton School, Canterbury.

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