Microfilm Shelf List

Bailey, Jacob, 1731-1808.

Papers : 1748-1808. MIC-Loyalist FC LFR .B3J3P3 r. 1-13 Conversion List
UNB Reel Number Volumes Contents
1 91(part) Reels 1-5 contain correspondence, 1748-1830; miscellaneous material, 1700- 1800; and diaries (journals), 1753-1779.
2 91 - 93(part)
3 93 - 93A(part)
4 93A(part) - 94(part)
5 94(part) - 95(part)
6 95(part) - 96 Contains journals, 7 June 1779 - 1783; correspondence, 25 June - 10 July 1779; miscellaneous material, 1796-1800; accounts, 1796-1797, 1799; and literary manuscripts.
7 96 - 97 Includes a written manuscript describing the weather and geography of New England; loose manuscripts including segments of plays; and sections of incomplete works including, Flowers of the Wilderness and Serena.
8 98 Consists of prose works including peices on American history, for example, History of New England, and the geography of Maine and Nova Scotia in A Description and Natural History of the New England Province between New Hampshire and Nova Scotia (Maine); as well as fragments of two plays, one entitled Majesty of the Mob, and Bailey's longest poem, The Adventures of Jack Ramble.
9 99 Contains, Jack Ramble continued from reel 8; prose works on theology and morality; historical notes on such subjects as the Acadians and the state of religion in Nova Scotia; and a poem, Character of a Trimmer. 10 100 Contains miscellaneous material; a prose peice written in the form of a journal describing various journeys through Nova Scotia; notebooks dealing with religion, morality and history; and letters, 1750-1808.
11 101 Consists of three notebooks on poetry; another entitled, America; and the last called Elegy.
12 102 - 103 Contains in part the unfinished novel, The Flower of the Wilderness; school books; and letterbooks, 1779-1790, 1784-1788, of letters written in Halifax and in Cornwallis.
13 104 Contains in part the unfinished novel, The Flower of the Wilderness; school books; and letterbooks, 1779-1790, 1784-1788, of letters written in Halifax and in Cornwallis.