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[[preprinted]] FREDERICK STARR, PH.D. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
(Central Park, 77th St. and 8th Ave.)
Department of Archaeology and Ethnology.
[[strikeout]] New York [[/strikeout]] [[/preprinted]]
Claremont, Calif. Apr. 14 [[preprinted 189 [[/preprinted]] 1

Dear Miss Fletcher,
The returned syllables came all right.  I am glad if they were of any interest.  I have never looked into Mr. Melville Bell's System of writing languages.  I shall do so.  I do [[underline]] not [[/underline]] entirely like Maj. [[Parnell's]] alphabet but have used in as I supposed so large a mass of material was written in it as to make it undesirable to use another system.
Benjamin I. Gilmore wished recently to make a study of chinese instrumental music.  I made the arrangements for him with our most Sr. men and he got about thirty cylinders (phonograph) full of music.  That is the extent of my experience with the phonograph. 
Yrs,
F. Starr