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Oct 14
[[preprinted]] MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR.
MILWAUKEE, WIS., ^[[Sept 24]] 189^[[1]]. [[/preprinted]]

My dear Miss Fletcher:
The Indian Music is progressing.  I have been engaged to deliver an illustrated lecture on it in the Plymouth Popular Course here, early in January.  Soon after that my orchestral version of seven of the Haethuska songs (done since I wrote you last) is to be played here at a symphony concert.  Weld, the conductor, thinks Seidl, of N.Y. would be glad to play it.  It is a great improvement on the two Fantasias, which I regard as 'prentice work only.  Further, I have arranged to take lessons on the phonograph, to be prepared for next summer.  I mean to make myself an [[underlined]] expert [[/underlined]] in the use of it & able to get accurate results of scientific value.  In that respect, Fewkes & Gilman's work is a failure.
Francis writes me that Prof. Putnam wants me to collect songs from all the tribes for the World's Fair.  I shall be glad