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songs than you do or anybody else, but I know enough about work like this to see that you are not doing it right and when the music is wrong as written by you I am not going to accept it. If I knew the songs I would not be grinding the machine but would myself dictate the songs to you as I have done to Miss Fletcher and to Mr. Fillmore who have transcribed accurately the songs I gave them to write. We recorded the speed of the songs by use of a metronome and he was doing well when he come to a song that had a [[contesting?]] rythm and he set the met, so that it gave two beats to almost every short note and I don't know how many to the long ones, and he made a jig out of the song that was slow [[timed?]] and insisted that it was the correct [[time?]]. I beat time to the song and said, "There is the correct speed. Set the met, to beat with this and you will get the correct speed. I had the greatest difficulty in making him understand it. The work will be done either today or tomorrow and 

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Cadman will leave Wednesday or Thursday.

Now as to my leave. You say in your last letter that my letter was vague about it. If you yourself will figure it all out for the month of July it will be all right. Whatever days are left over I wish to keep so that I can come home Christmas. I want to see as much of you as I can. In doing this work I have given up a great deal that is of personal interest to me. Your companionship is worth much to me and I have given up a great deal of it. I am glad that the Smithsonian appreciates the collection. It is very valuable and of course I shall secure all the information I can about them. One stage of the Wa-xo-be ceremony is about complete and the others may be coming in [[?]]. When I come to Washington I want to see Mr. Hodge and talk with him about the manner of payment to my informants who know the rites. You yourself know that it is impossible to employ them