Scope and Contents The "Letters of Tribute" bond folder of folder 1 contains personal letters of tribute sent soon after Barker's untimely death in May 1958. Of particular interest is the letter sent to LDS Church President David O. McKay by Dr. Rene' Belle', Chairman of University of Southern California's Department of French. The other two bond folders contain dated and undated "Statements of Recommendation" from 1925 to 1940. Most of the statements were sent to Barker in response to his request for a critical...

Scope and Contents The most recent item in this collection, dated 8 September 1966, is a letter to Kate Barker, Barker's wife, from one of his former colleagues. It is included in the "Personal" bond folder. The remaining five bond folders, entitled, "Professional," include letters from the Linguistic Society of America's Administrative Committee, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding the text they commissioned him to write, and critical letters of review concerning his manual on English...

Scope and Contents The ten bond folders within these two folders contain Barker's textual rough drafts, handouts and comments from and about fellow phoneticians, proposed texts nearing final stage, and a summary of instructors' reports on "How I Teach Pronunciation."

Scope and Contents The "Published Articles" folder covers a broad segment of Barker's professional life. His first article was published in November 1916 while serving as chair of BYU's Language Department. His last, and perhaps most famous, entitled "Dynamic vs. Static Phonetics," was published in June 1940. Although this collection contains only a portion of those articles actually written by Barker, they do sufficiently reflect his research focus and innovative ideas.

Scope and Contents During the ten-year period from December 1925 to December 1935, Barker's reputation grew to expansive proportions with his creative approach to the teaching of foreign languages. Statements from newspaper clippings in this bond folder are taken from local newspapers and from newspapers as far away as Columbia University's Teachers College.