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grows upon me and I feel anxious to gather more material then I have as yet.

The psychological point that you note, the "peculiar abstraction" that the singer yields to, or courts, is a very interesting observation as showing the predominance of the emotional over the intellectual faculties in primitive song. I should be glad to hear further about this. Does it ever pass into a sonambulistic or mesmeric condition, and does it seem to extend from one to another as their emotions are enlisted by the chant?

I hope you will have no further return of the paniful experiences of which you[[strikethrough]] r [[/strikethrough]] allude.

Very respy yrs
D G Brinton.