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Universal Exposition St. Louis, 1904
Division of Exhibits
Frederick J.V. Skiff, Director
Department of Anthropology
W.J. McGee, Chief

David R. Francis, President
WM. H. Thompson, Treasurer
Walter B. Steven, Secretary
Franklin Ferriss, General Counsel
S.M. McCowan, U.S. Superintendent Government Indian Exhibit
F.W. Lehmann, Chairman Committee on Anthropology
Pierre Chouteau, Chairman Committee on History

Address reply to the CHIEF OF THE DEPARTMENT

ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. 
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May 27, 1904.

Miss Alice Fletcher,

214 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Miss Fletcher:

Permit me to thank you for remembering our conversation about Indian music for Band and Choir. A day or two ago I received four pieces of music from Mr. Burton. I believe this can be used by our choir.

Mr. Burton writes that he has nothing for the Band completed, but hopes to have later.
I believe with you that Indian music touches chords in the human soul beyond reach of most of the stuff used today. I am really anxious to get something in the musical line for the Band that portrays something at least of what Indian music really means to the Indian and [[strikethrough]]its[[/strikethrough]] ^[[his]] interpretation of nature. I wish an Indian could write this. 

Thanking you for your kind wishes and hoping to meet you here later in the season when we shall have something really worth seeing and studying. I am,

Very respectfully,
[[signature]]S.M. McCowan [[/signature]]
Superintendent 
U.S. Indian Exhibit, L.P.E.