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^[[ [[underlined]] Jany 17 [[/underlined]] ]]
^[[ [1900-01?] ]]

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"I hear America singing"
The WA-WAN PRESS
NEWTON CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS
A Movement for American Music
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My dear Miss Fletcher - 

The unattainable Elysian fields must be a place where we can roam sunlit meadows and enjoy the company of our friends! What an apprenticeship of toil for any of us who have heard the call to action in life! - Yet it is glorious to truly live.

I am back from the west again - working here. This the the year of my opportunity. Mr. Geo. Foster Peabody has given, experimentally enough support to the [[?]] to enable us to develop its resources in a modest and conservative, yet progressive way. - and if I can show a result in any degree encouraging before many months, I know that he will do [[more?]]. But it is not easy - and sets my courage and faith a great test. - which I pray they can meet. I had no glowing financial record to show Mr. Peabody, . but he evidently perceived my persistence, was interested in my musical work [[?]], and could at least see that the last year