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officials, college presidents and all other ignoramuses and non-entities and do my own work as I please. It isn't in me to soft-soft blockheads for pap. And I'm not going to try. 
I have sold fifteen of the monographs and remitted the proceeds to Prof. Putnam. He has not acknowledged the receipt of my check; but he sent me 25 more copies of the book about a week later; so I think he must have got it. 
I have just written a review of Wallascheck's Primitive Music for the Journal of American Folk-lore. Newell sent it to me for that purpose. The book is good and able one and I hope you will like the review. I wrote it under horrible pressure; but I rather think it is a good one. I have rec'd some pamphlets from Prof. Stumpf, of Munich, with a very handsome note of recognition and acknowledgement for what I had sent him. He is away up in psychology, and especially in music-psychology; so his approval counts for something. I hope he will review the monograph. I have sent him my review of Gilman; he sent me his. I also sent my review of Hanslick. 
I may be in Philadelphia in July; Presser wants me to work in a Normal. If so, I shall hope to see you and perhaps have the pleasure of giving one or two of those stupids down there a side-winder. It is often of great service to a man to inform him that he is an ass.
My regards to Miss Gay and Francis.
Yours most cordially,
J.C. Fillmore.