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MILWAUKEE SHCOOL OF MUSIC.
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JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR
MILWAUKEE, WIS., ^[April 20]] 189^[[4]] 
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My dear Miss Fletcher:
   Yours enclosing Fewkes two letters just rec'd.  Don't worry about your articles.  I have no fault to find with what you said about the harmonization of the songs.  But I will look over the proofs & make any slight alterations which occur to me.  In any case, it is understood that you are a professional Ethnologist not a professional musician; and no musician would expect you to put things just as you might if the reverse were the case.  So don't disturb yourself in the least.  Your paper is [[underlined]] good [[/underlined]].- I enclose a letter from Mathew, which please return.  I shall keep in touch with him, if be he's well enough to write.  He has been having Bright's disease, but thinks he is over it; I fear not.  He has lived too fast, in that Chicago whirl.-  I can't get a word out of Presler & so can make no plans.  If I go to Phil., I expect to take boat.-  here June 24, go to Buffalo by the lakes, down the St Lawrence & to the M.T.N.A. meeting at Saratoga & then to Phila., coming to you before its normal, if there is time; if not after it. I shall send Presler up today.- I have got another friendly letter from Fewkes, who

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Returned Matthews letter & ansr'd 
Apr. 25.
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