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MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR.

Milwaukee, Wis., ^[[June 3]], 189^[[3]], 
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Dear Miss Fletcher:

Yours of June 1 I just rec'd; but the proofs you spoke of were not enclosed. I suppose you have sent them separately. Will attend to them as soon as they come. — As I understand it, you & I are expected to take up a whole session of the Musical Congress. I will write to Matthews, to make sure. It would be jolly if we could have Geo. Miller. We could do the biggest thing ever seen.

— The phonograph is all right if used [[underlined]] scientifically [[/underlined]] . I got a record when Francis was here on which sound conclusions could be based. But Gilman is drawing inferences from facts which do not warrant them; or rather from alleged facts which are not facts. Tewkes' record was taken with the varying speed caused by a treadle instead of the constant speed of a battery; so that the variations of pitch mean nothing. And I fear Gilman is wholly lacking in "horse sense" as well as in fundamental musical qualities. What does it matter what he says? No musician who knows anything