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A collection of essays in memory of William C. Holmes (1928-1999), a distinguished scholar of seventeenth-century music and of the works of Verdi, who for many years was Professor of Music at the University of California at Irvine. The volume contains studies by friends, colleagues, and former students ranging in subject matter from fifteenth-century dance, to the music of Rossini, Verdi, and Stravinsky, to the performance practice and patronage of seventeenth-century opera, all reflective of Holmes's wide-ranging interests.
Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, financial records, bills of lading, certificates, checks drawn on Mystic River Bank, and Mystic River National Bank, and other documents, reflecting Holmes' affairs. Subjects include his service as customs surveyor at Mystic and Noank, Conn. (1861-1865); activities as master of the sloop ACTIVE (1848-1854) which was involved in coastal trade between Mystic and New York; ownership of a feed store (burned ca. 1865); and wholesale flour and grocery trade with Joseph Allen & Co. and Williams & Potter, New York, N.Y., and Waldron & Church, Providence, R.I. Persons represented include Hannah Denison Holmes.