{"value"=>"<p>Most of this series consists of papers of Louise and Sidney Homer. They include address books, appointment books, datebooks and calendars, tour itineraries, honorary degrees, passports, writings, and publicity materials. The writings include the manuscripts and typescripts for Sidney Homer's My Wife And I as well as brief memoirs that Louise Homer wrote for her husband's use in that book; Notes On Singing, a set of notebooks with Louise Homer's notes on vocal technique; Sidney Homer's essays and creative writing on nonmusical topics; and Louise and Sidney Homer's bible-study notes and essays. Other papers include composition lists and publishing information for Sidney Homer's work, and correspondence received and speeches given on the occasion of the Homer's 50th wedding anniversary party in 1945. Publicity material for Louise Homer includes pamphlets, boilerplate biographies, and posters from the Metropolitan Opera and Victor Records.</p> <p>This series also contains the papers of several other members of the Homer and Beatty families, including Louise Homer's father, Reverend William T. Beatty (his sermons and essays), and her uncle, Reverend Samuel Fulton (press clippings of his sermons); Anne Homer Doerflinger (notes and research for her book Louise Homer and the Golden Age of Opera); and papers for Samuel Barber, which include a letter from the U.S. Army to Louise Homer regarding a composition the Army commissioned from Barber, and Barber's personal copy of a silk program from the premiere of his opera Antony And Cleopatra. The Sidney Homer, Jr. papers consist of family trees for the Beattys and Homers, with details on notable family figures.</p>"}