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MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., [[/preprinted]] Aug. 7 [[preprinted]] 189 [[/preprinted]] 1.

My dear Miss Fletcher:

I had hoped to forward you my Report in a week more & that would answer all your questions.  But it goes very slowly.  I have to copy all the songs from my pencil notes.  Even those I went over at Washington have to be looked over carefully, some of the requiring important changes.  I knew nothing of that double drum-beat until I saw the Haethuska dances.  Nearly all of these have a 3-rhythm in them sung against the 2-rhythm of the drum.  I wish I might change some of those I sent to the [[underlined]] Century [[/underlined]].  But