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

Milwaukee, Wis., ^[[May 9th, '93.]] 189
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Dear Miss Fletcher:----Yours rec'd.Of course I'll do my share of the Indian paper; We are likely, I think, to receive two more invitations of the same sort; one for a session of the Musical Congress and one for the Folk-Lore Congress. I incline to think we had better accept as many as we receive. The more Repoerts our work can get into, the better. N'est ce pas?at any rate, I have been invited to present the subject at the Folk-lore congress and have answered that if i did you must be included.Mathews wrote me that,instead of waiting for the M.T.N.A.motion, he could get a special session of the Mus.Congress devoted to that subject and put us on.But I have heard no definite news since. You seem to have heard from the M.T.N.A. people first. We must accept that one, anyhow, because I solicited it for you, before I had any idea that there could be any others;

I don't believe thaht Gilman knows what he is about at all. His Zuni work is absolutely worthless; he is basing his conclusions on the aberrations of a phonograph wich was run by a treadle when the record was taker; Consequently, he has no reliable dadta to begin with.If he had, I doubt wether he is competent todraw conclusions from them.he seems to be lacking in the harmonic sense and in the sense of tonality the notion that the Indians know anything about small intervals of