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^[[ [[underlined]] Ansd Feb 12. [[/underlined]] ]]

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INSTITUTION ETHNOGRAPHIQUE.
DELEGATION GENERALE DES ETATS-UNIS.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.S.A.
115 South Seventh Street.

^[[Jan 20]] 188^[[4]]
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Dear Miss Fletcher:

Your interesting letter at hand. In reference to the price of the series of Aborig. Amer. Lit., I shall consider myself fully compensated if within the next three or four months, as leisure and opportunity may serve you, you will prepare for me some native songs with remarks on their meaning; their words, and their manner of delivery.

I should like to ask you to give particular attention to the [[underlined]]inarticulate [[/underlined]] portion of the Indian tongue. By that I mean their exclamations, interjections, cries of pleasure, anger or pain, their shouts and calls, the sounds they use in calling dogs, in urging and checking horses, etc. This also includes the meaningless choruses of their songs, and it is reflection on these that has led me to study the subject of "inarticulate speech" (if the expression is permissible) generally. As I study it, its importance