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P.S. Dr Boas spent Sunday with me two weeks ago & we worked on the cylinders. He told me that Holmes was appointed Columbian Museum last fall, to come in in May. It was kept secret from Boas, who was needed temporarily & he was encouraged to hope that his appointment might be permanent. He found out the truth in Feb & resigned at once. But as they could not do without him, he was prevailed on to stay, at a salary of $500 per month instead of $200 until May 1. He says that Prof. Putnam has been  shamefully treated + attributed it to the jealousy + wirepulling of Prof. Chamberlain of Chicago univ. He thinks the chief objection to him was that he was "Putnam 's man."
   I have been re reading your part of the Monograph + I like it immensely . I am satisfied with my own part, also. We have certainly done a good piece of work; + if we never do anything else, we have made an important contribution to science. Whom does any [[underline]] enlightening [[/underline]] work on primitive music, hereafter, will have to follow in our tricks. We have broken the true road. Gilman + Powell + Mason + whoever pleases may try the blind alleys of physics; but they won't get anywhere + nobody will be the wiser for what they do. Your work + mine will be remembered. It marks an epoch in the study of folk music. So let the mediocrities + non-entities , of which the colleges are full, prate + obstruct as much as they please, Henceforth I ask nothing of any of them. I stand on my own feet, earn my own living + do such work as I please in my own way. - I am happy to say that Boas expressed himself to me as in accord with us, in the fundamentals. I got more acquainted with him this time. I found he was enough of a musician to read an orchestral score + had played about all the great classical works for the piano. So his judgment is worth something. J.C. F.