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201 West Pennsylvania Urbana, Illinois Jan 21, 61

Dear Fred, Thank you for your welcome letter, the Wrone carbon, and the Nafken letter. I respond at once. I did plan to come to Chicago and had indicated to Chuck D. that I would. However, I was quite sick -- flu and fever --and actually lost a week of work.

I had a strong reason to come and see you for there is some good news on my Wob lore project.  I'll try to put it in sequence. About a year ago Phil Taft urged me to visit Dick Brazier in N.Y.C. When Joe Glazer put out his recent book he sent a copy to Brazier and they corresponded. Joe suggested that I see Dick. I went East to Philly for an Am Folklore Society meeting Dec 27-29. From Philly I went up to NY and met Brazier at the Taminent Inst (old Rand School). We chose this site so I could show Dick my microfilm of Neuhaus songbooks. It was the first time he had seen some of his own songs since 1917 when the Feds raided his ?gear? . 

We met on Friday and talked. We returned on Saturday when it was quiet and made a 3 hr tape. I tried to concentrate on the early days in Spokane. Also I tried to explore the problem of