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[[handwritten in Left margin]]Whoever says that [[?]] has not proved that his [[?]] tones of the voice are full of overtones deos not know his [[?]]and as is much less a physicist then I am. One of the great points [[?]] made was to show that every spoken vowel owes their [[?]] to the relations [[?]] of certain overtones. [[/handwritten in left margin]]

[[handwritten in right margin]] I have sent an "open letter" to the [[underline]] Century [[/underline]] which i am sure you will approve.  I hope they accept it. Your paper is too long for an "open letter."


I wish your paper could go into CENTURY; but we want it published NOW,and the only place where I feel sure of immediate publication is MUSIC. There would probably be no pay.Shall I see about it? When it comes out,I will send it to Stumpf.

You can tell Major Powell that Prof. Fillmore and Miss Fletcher know too much to spend their precious time on "the physical aspects of Indian music". It is worthy of a political Ethnologist to imagine that any music is a branch of physics.What those fellows are doing is sheer poppycock. You can tell him further that I am a good deal more of a accoustician than is at all necessary to be a musician or to see the futility of his ideas. If he were half as much a musician as I am a physicist,he would know enough not to talk about what he does not understand.

Now don't waste any more time or strength on those blind moles.I am going, first of all, to try to make my school bring me in a better income. Then I am going to try to work up as many lecture engagements as possible,using as a popular title "Indian Religion as exemplified in the Sacred Music of the Omahas". Everybody is interesting in religion;and I can deliver this lecture even in the Y.M.C.A. courses.I shall try to get it in there,beginning in Milwaukee. If I succeed in this,I shall be at the mercy of nobody and I shall be at liberty to hit a head wherever I see it. I only hope the paper you heard will be published. Nothing would suit me better than to show it up.

My regards to"the family"; my own wishes to be remembered to you and to Francis.

Yours as ever,
[[signature]] J.C. Fillmore. [[/signature]]