Milwaukee Journal

Bayley spent almost 15 years as the paper's political reporter. A large percentage of his personal correspondence is with the former Journal staff, correspondence in which they often discuss past and current events at the Journal.

Gaylord Nelson

Included are numerous (40-50?) letters between Bayley and Nelson, in addition to many other letters in which Bayley includes an anecdote about his years with Nelson.

Wisconsin Democratic Party

After Bayley left the Kennedy Administration his incoming and outgoing correspondence begins to discuss his involvement in state Democratic politics in the late 1950s, as he began moving away from the Journal and into Nelson's camp. Bayley was meeting with John Kennedy, as a political advisor and not a reporter, as early as 1958. There are also many letters in the collection from Patrick Lucey and John Reynolds, both neighbors in Door County.

J. Martin Klotsche

Bayley and Klotsche, long-time chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, were close personal friends. There are at least 40 letters in the collection from Klotsche to Bayley. Most of these date from the years Klotsche was on administrative sabbaticals. Klotsche also advised Bayley in the 1960s when he was looking for a post in a university.