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

Milwaukee, Wis., ^[[Jan. 15th,]] 189^[[3]]
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Dear Miss Fletcher:-----I meant to have answered yours, long ago; but I have unusual duties at home, since Mrs. F.'s accident.  Besides that I am in temporary charge of a choir and organ; and this obliges me to work seven days in the week.  I am never out of harness.  So that I am doing no literary work, although I have plenty on hand; and I find it all I can do to write the letters I must write.  Il additionto this, I have an unusual amount of teaching.-----I read your paper in the CENTURY before I received your explanation, and was disappointed in it, because it didn't seem to begin anywhere.  When I understood how it happened, I was more indignant than ever.  A man who can't edit a magazine better than that ought to hire himself out to be a dummy, to exhibit cheap ready-made coats, in a slop-shop.  Confound him.  What is the use of a world -full of such gibbering idiots?--Pardon my Western vigor, if it needs any excuse.  We have been having terribly cold weather, which still continues.  I hope it is not quite so bad with you.  Good luck to you both.  May you live long and prosper.  Mrs. F. sends regards to you both.  

Yours as ever.
J. C. Fillmore

P.S.  I have never heard anything from the Chicago University.  I should like to meet Prof. Starr, but I am tied up here until the last of next June.  If you think I ought to do anything, let me know. J.C.F.