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[[preprinted]] MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC [[line]] 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