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tone is, I am convinced, wholly a mistake.Anyhow, he can prove nothing in his way of going to work. The cylinders are worthless, to begin with.Somebody will have to do that work over in a scientific way, if there are ever to be anyresults.It is absolutely necessary to use a battery and keep an absolutely even and definiwe rate of speed. Don't bother with Gilman;it is time wasted.

Let me know as soon as you are ready to come to Chicago. I will try to see you as soon as I can.Excuse haste and a bad pen, as the pigs said when they broke out of the sty.
All send greetings.   

Yours as ever,
J.C.Fillmore.