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AUTOGRAPHS 1914 1918 1937 1938 1943 1950 1953 1955 1956 1957 1914 Date: 1914
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright - Emil Bach Postcard, 1914. Emil Bach Residence, Chicago, Illinois, Circa 1955 (1915 - S.193).
Description: Happy New Year Greeting postcard from Frank Lloyd Wright to Bach Brick Company. Text on face: "New Year Greeting. Turn Over A New Leaf." Text on verso: "Post Card. December 20, 1914. Greetings to all: Very truly yours, FLLW (signed), Frank Lloyd Wright. Bach Brick Company, 7415 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois, USA, United States of America." Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Emil Bach House in 1915. It was the first design in 1915 (FLLW #1501). Emil Bach was co-owner of the Bach Brick Company with his brothers. The Bach Residence was located at 7415 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois. Post card is printed in three colors, Red, Green and black. The leaf is cloth and affixed on the left side. Beneath the right side of the leaf is the text: "Drink and be Merry" but remember. We have seen an example of a similar postcard postmarked 1919. Variation of face, same verso. Signed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5.
S#: 0124.48.10211918 Date: 1918
Title: Original Handwritten Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Catherine L. Wright, 1918.
Description: An original handwritten letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Catherine L. Wright dated October 2nd, 1918. Wright attempts to persuade Catherine to grant him a divorce. She continues to refuses.
On June 1, 1889, Catherine and Frank were married in Chicago, Illinois. She was 17 years old. Raising a family dominated most of her time. In 1903, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house for Edwin H. And Mamah Borthwick Cheney In 1909, Mamah and Frank left their respective spouses and traveled to Europe, settling in Italy for about a year. Upon their return in 1911, they settled at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. On January 2, 1912, Edwin announced his intentions to marry Mamah's sister, his sister-in-law. On August 15, 1914, one of Wright's recently hired domestic workers murdered Mamah, both her children, three of Wright's associates, and a son of one of the associates. He set fire to one wing of Taliesin, and murdered the seven people with an ax as they tried to escape the fire. At the time, Wright was overseeing work on Midway Gardens in Chicago. Catherine Wright would refuse to give Wright a divorce until November 13, 1922.
Immediately after the tragic death of Mamah Cheney on August 15, 1914, Miriam Noel sent condolences to Wright. Within weeks Wright became involved with Miriam and she moved into Taliesin. On November 7, 1915 she was quoted in the Chicago Daily Tribune "...Frank Wright and I care nothing for what the world may think. We are as capable of making laws for ourselves as were the dead men who made the laws by which they hoped to rule the generations after them." Although Wright had not yet received a divorce from Kitty, they live together and travel to Tokyo, Japan in 1916. In 1922, Wright's first wife, Kitty, granted him a divorce. He was required to wait one year and on November 19, 1923, Miriam and Frank were married in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Their relationship was quite tumultuous. Wright explains in his Autobiography that he married her to rescue their relationship. "Marriage resulted in ruin for both. Instead of improving with marriage, as I had hoped, our relationship became worse." (An Autobiography, p 260). They quarreled a great deal, she was addicted to morphine, and in less than a year they were separated. In 1924, after the separation, but while still married, Wright met Olgivanna at the Petrograd Ballet in Chicago. On November 27, 1925 Miriam filed for a divorce, alleging desertion and cruelty. After a three year legal battle, they were divorced on August 26, 1927. Olga and Frank were married on August 25, 1928 at midnight in Rancho Santa Fe near La Jolla. The ceremony was held one year to the day after Wright's divorce from Miriam... Continue...Text of letter:
Dear Catherine,
All the real assett I am or was to you or to the children is my good feeling and good conscience regarding you.
Destroy this in me and you have left to you nothing but the small end of a legal quibble. Less than nothing because you will lose what you already have. I do not quail in the face of vengeance whatever disguise it wears.
I am bound to give you and the children (those not grown men and women) what you need - no more.
No ones real need is as much as I have given you. All above actual need is a gift from me.
The children are bound to support either you or me in case of your need or my need. This is an obligation imposed by law for the support they have received up to their coming of age -
No help has ever come from one of them to me. The children are yours by blood and sympathy.
I have raised and educated them for you and yours.
If you have not made them an asset to you instead of a liability for which you expect me to continue to pay in my declining years, the greivance is mine against you not yours against me. For ten years past you have had nothing else to do.
You have done nothing toward helping me to establish...
Size: 13.125" x 4.375" folded to 4.56" x 4.375."
S#: 0139.21.0523
1937
Date: 1937
Title: Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by Don Wallace (1891 - February 21, 1939).
Description: Frank Lloyd wright is facing the camera and looking directly at it. He is wearing a grey overcoat, black shirt and black pants. Around his neck is a dark grey tie of scarf. Below his tie, a pair of glasses hung from a chain. Around his shoulder is what appears to possibly be the belt for the overcoat. It is made from the same material. Published in Coronet, December, 1937, p. 172. Also published in Popular Photography, May 1939, p.47. Caption: "Frank Lloyd Wright by Don Wallace, 1891-1939." Footnote: "This phonograph and one of Mrs. Wallace were Don's two favorite pictures." Also published in Frank Lloyd Wright, Apprentice to Genius, Tafel, 1979, Frontispiece, and attributed to Wallace. Published on the cover of Frank Lloyd Wright, Architectural Drawings and Decorative Art, Hanks, 1985, but credited to Edgar Tafel. Of note: Very similar to a photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright by Hedrich-Blessing (S#0429.21), same overcoat, strap around his shoulders and glasses hanging below his tie. Wright is wearing the same outfit in the photograph "Group in the Workshop." Architectural Forum, January 1938, p.2, Hedrich-Blessing.
Acquired from the estate of Hollywood Actress Nina Lunn Black, the daughter of Nina Lunn, the third wife of C. Leigh Stevens, Auldbrass Plantation (1939 - S.262)
Auldbrass Plantation was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938 for C. Leigh Stevens. Besides the main Residence, it also included a Guesthouse, Cottages, Caretaker's Quarters and other outbuildings. Frank Lloyd Wright designed some of the first buildings on the property in 1938. " 'Old Brass' was the name given to a tract of land in South Carolina that includes over 4,000 acres. "In the mid 1930s the Savanna River Lumber Co. Which owned the tract of land slid into bankruptcy. C. Leigh Stevens took over the responsibility of reorganizing the company, and ended up "with its shares held by Stevens." Old Brass was one of many holdings owned by the reorganized Savanna River Lumber Co. The modern history of "Auldbrass" which Wright adapted from Old Brass started in 1939 when C. Leigh Stevens commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to create a plantation complex of buildings for his southern home..." Auldbrass, The Plantation Complex Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Loring, 1992.
According to David Delong, construction began on the complex in September, 1940, but was halted in 1942 due to the war and shortage of funds. Construction began again in 1946. In 1950, Stevens married his third wife, Nina Lunn, who took an interest in Auldbrass and started to direct the workers herself.
From the beginning of their relationship Nina had shown an active interest in Auldbrass, and she now set out to "make a nest there." Upon her arrival accompanied only by her eldest daughter, as it turned out, for Stevens had departed on one of his trips-she found the place unfinished and neglected, the kitchen hopelesly abandoned with no evidence of use. "The place is plumb deserted," the caretaker told her, adding that the last lime Stevens's had gone away, he "didn't come back for near four years. * This would correspond with the period from 1942 to 1946, when construction had stopped and Stevens was otherwise involved. Nina took a more aggressive stance than Stevens's second wife. She began to direct the workers herself... (p.137). Auldbrass, The Plantation Complex Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Delong, 1992.
Stevens took Nina to Taliesin so they could discuss these matters with Wright, reestablishing communications after a period of some three years. In anticipation of their visit, Wright prepared a new furniture layout, dated June 1, 1951, that outlined how built-in seats and tables would relate with freestanding pieces to complete the architectural enclosure of the living room. Nina brought pictures showing how Auldbrass actually looked; things were not what Wright expected. The original copper foil on the roofs had long since disintegrated, the result of acid producing leaves that fell in profusion each fall... (p.142). Auldbrass...
Whatever Nina's misgivings regarding Wright, and however bitter her later views of Stevens might have been, she was able to perceive remarkable qualities in both. As she wrote some years after her divorce, "Ordinary men are fearful of being different; afraid to break a pattern or to ignore tradition. Not these two. Both believed their creative ability led to greater and greater achievement. What Wright dared to do for architecture, Leigh did for industry." (P.166) Auldbrass...
It could have been after this visit, or on a subsequent trip that Wright gave to Nina and Leigh this gift dated July 1, 1951. It is inscribed by Frank Lloyd Wright: To "Ma_ _a" and "Papa" at Taliesin July 1 / 51. Frank Lloyd Wright. Provenance: Hollywood Actress Nina Lunn Black, daughter of Nina Lunn, the third wife of C. Leigh Stevens, Auldbrass Plantation. Photographed by Don Wallace.
Size: Original 16 x 20 B&W photograph. Frame: 22.5 x 27.5.
S#: 0429.61.0123
Inscribed by Frank Lloyd Wright: To "Ma_ _a" and "Papa" at Taliesin July 1 / 51. Frank Lloyd Wright.1938 Unfolded full size page 1.
Date: 1938
Unfolded full size page 2. Emboss has been enhanced. Detail of Frank Lloyd Wright facsimile signature.
Title: Architectural Forum - January 1938 (Two Page Letter) (Published Monthly by Time, Inc. New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Two Page Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright loosely inserted into the magazine. "To the Young Man in Architecture - a Challenge: I have taken over the writing and editing of the January Architectural Forum. I turned editor partly because Howard Myers came to Taliesin and asked me to - partly because I felt the time had come to restate a few fundamentals which are strangely missing from the contemporary scene. The days and nights and the long hours I have put into the making of this issue are important only to me. But important to you are the months and years that went into the making of these buildings whose plans and photographs this issue brings you for the first time with critical text... My purpose and hope in presenting this material in the Architectural Forum is to promote discussion and rekindle enthusiasm for an honest American Architecture..." Two single sheets, printed in three color and embossed. Text in black, red square, signature printed in blue. Of interest is that the cover of the magazine is printed in two color. The first and last pages of the Wright section of the magazine is also printed in two color. The pages of Wright's section is one color. But this letter is printed in three color and embossed.
Size: 12 x 10 folded to 8 x 10.
Pages: Pp 2
S#: 0457.04.11161943
Date: 1943
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Mary Fritz and Francis Caraway 1943.
Description: "Dear Mary and Francis: Your bread and cookies are just as good as ever and hope you all are too." (Signed) "F. LL. W." "Frank Lloyd Wright. January 2nd, 1943." Envelope is addressed to: "Mary Fritz, Francis Caraway, Hyde, Ridgeway, Wisconsin." Postmarked "Spring Green. Jan 4 1943." We surmise that Mary and Francis must have attended a Taliesin holiday function, Christmas or New Years, brought bread and cookies to the function, and Wright was sending them a thank you. Note: Hyde is about 9 miles from Taliesin. Herbert Fritz Sr. was one of the early draftsman who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright in 1913 in Spring Green, and was one of two that survived the fire at Taliesin in 1914, killing seven including Mamah Cheney and her two children. Herb married Mary Olava Larson, Wright's stonemason's daughter. Their son was Herb Fritz Jr. (1915-1998), also an apprentice with Wright in from 1937-1941. Their daughter, Frances Fritz, married another Taliesin Fellow, Jesse Claude (Cary) Caraway. Herbert Jr. Married Eloise, their daughter Barbara married another Taliesin fellow, Jim Dresser.
Size: Letterhead: 11 x 8.5. Envelope: 8.9 x 3.9.
S#: 0595.07.05171950
Date: 1950
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Autograph.
Description: Signed check made out to Victory Tent and Awning Company in Phoenix, Arizona on Feb. 21, 1950. They were the suppliers of the canvas used at Taliesin West.
S#: 1950.00.0202
Date: 1950
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Autograph.
Description: Signed check made out to the Hotel Heidelberg in Baton Rouge, LA on April 29, 1950. Signed twice. Once for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and secondly as Frank Lloyd Wright.
S#: 1950.01.0602
Date: 1950
Title: Employer's Affidavit from Frank Lloyd Wright for Cary Caraway 1950.
Description: A photocopy of Employer's Affidavit, describing Cary Caraway's apprenticeship at Taliesin signed by Frank Lloyd Wright, August 26, 1950. Text: "Employer" Affidavit. Architect. I hereby certify that I am a registered architect in good standing in the State of Wisconsin and that Jesse S.. Caraway was employed by me in architectural work in regular full-time apprenticeship continuously from June 8, 1935 to August 15, 1942 in an office at Spring Green, Wis. & Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona. I further certify that I was a registered architect in good standing in the State of Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright (Signed), Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin. Subscribed and sworn to me this 26th day of August, 1950." Also included a single sheet, written in pencil, presumably written by Caraway, describing the "Principles for the Practice of Architecture as adopted by the Taliesin Associated Architects." Signed by Frank Lloyd Wright on original. Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway. These items were included in a lot related to Cary Caraway.
Size: Affidavit : 8 x 5.5. Sheet: 8.5 x 11
S#: 0831.111.11211953
Date: 1953
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Autograph.
Description: Signed check made out to The Chicago Art Institute on Nov. 4, 1953. Signed twice. Once for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and secondly as Frank Lloyd Wright.
S#: 1953.00.0502
Date: 1953
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Mark Peisch, Columbia University 1953.
Description: Typed and signed letter from Frank Lloyd Wright on Taliesin West stationery with the original envelope. "Mr. Mark L. Peisch, Foreign Student Advisor, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York 27, N. Y. My dear Mr. Peisch: Walter Burley Griffin was employed by me in the Oak Park Studio for about six years. (about 1893 to 1899 - (not sure)). It was all the education in Architecture he received so far as I know. His wife, Marian was also there with me for eleven years. Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright, February 21, 1953." Note: After graduation from the University of Illinois in 1899, Griffin worked as a draftsman in the office of Dwight Perkins, Robert C. Spencer, Jr., and H. Webster Tomlinson in Chicago. He then went to work in Wright's Studio in Oak Park from 1901 to 1905. He then opened his own practice. Biography from Columbia University: Mark Lyons Peisch (b. 1921) received his B.A. in History and History of Art from Dartmouth College in 1944. At Dartmouth, he was introduced by Professor Hugh Morrison, noted scholar of Louis Sullivan, to the work of Chicago School architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. Peisch taught briefly at Dartmouth in 1947 before entering Columbia University in 1949 as a graduate student in the Department of Fine Arts and Archeology. His doctoral thesis was on the Griffins and their contemporaries. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1959 with the completion of his dissertation "The Chicago School and Walter Burley Griffin, 1893-1914: Growth and Dissemination of an Architectural Movement and a Representative Figure," which was published in 1964 by Columbia University Press and Random House as "The Chicago School of Architecture: Early Followers of Sullivan and Wright."
Size: Letterhead: 10.9 x 8.4, Envelope: 8.9 x 3.9.
S#: 0987.92.0917
Date: 1953
Title: The Usonian House. The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. A Feature of the Exhibition: 60 Years of Living Architecture At The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York. November 1953. (Signed) (Soft Cover) (Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. A pamphlet describing the Usonian House that was built on the grounds of the Future Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition: Sixty Years of Living Architecture. "To say the original of this Usonian house, planted by myself on the good earth of the Chicago prairie as early as 1900 or earlier, was the first truly democratic expression in Architecture of our Democracy would start a controversy with professional addicts who believe Architecture has no political (therefore no social) significance. So, let's say that the Spirit of Democracy - freedom of the common man to grow to be an individual - took hold of the house as it then was, took off the attic and the porch, pulled out the basement, and made a single spacious, harmonious unit of living room, dining room and kitchen, with appropriate entry conveniences... F.LL.W." Includes eleven photographs of the House, and Exhibition, and an illustration of the floor plan. Two copies, one signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: "F. LL. W. (Office)." (First Edition) (Sweeney 926)
Size: 10 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 10
S#: 00926.00.0600, 0926.00.0919
Signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: "F. LL. W. (Office)."
Date: 1953
Title: Taliesin Tract, Number One: Man (Signed) (Published by The Taliesin Fellowship, Spring Green, Wisconsin, Christmas Morning 1953.)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Dated Christmas 1953. This was numbered "One", indicating an intent to publish additional issues. No additional issues were published. Includes mailing. Inscribed in ink by Frank Lloyd Wright: "F. LL. W. To the Caraways /54."
"Taliesin Tract, Number One: Man. Literature tells about man. Architecture presents him. The Architecture that our man of Democracy needs and prophecies is bound to be different from that of the common or conditioned man of any other socialized system of belief. As never before, this new free-man's Architecture will present him by being true to his own nature in all such expressions. This aim becomes natural to him in his Art as it once was in his Religion.
With renewed vision, the modern man will use the new tools Science lavishes upon him (even before he is ready for them) to enlarge his field of action by reducing his fetters to exterior controls, especially those of organized Authority, publicity, or political expediency. He will use his new tools to develop his own Art and Religion as the means to keep him free, as himself. Therefore this democratic man's environment, like his mind, will never be stylized. When and wherever he builds he will not consent to be boxed. He will himself have his style...
Christmas Morning 1953. Frank Lloyd Wright." Envelope addressed to Mr. And Mrs. J. C. Caraway..." Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway. (First Edition) (Sweeney 2070)
Size: Tract: 37.5 x 5.75, Accordion folded to 7.5 x 5.75. Envelope:8 x 6.
Pages: Pp 5
S#: 2070.00.11211955 Date: 1955
Title: Blumberg Correspondence:
Description: Letter dated October 4th, 1955. In response to Mel Blumberg, Sometime between receipt of the letter dated September 20th and this letter from Mr. Wright, negotiations broke down. "Dear Blumberg: I guess I am to blame. I remember telling you that the only thing we could do for you was the "one room" (so-called) Usonian Automatic which we can show you if you come to see it." Signed by Frank Lloyd Wright. On Taliesin Letterhead, includes envelope with Madison Postmark. "Mr. Mel Blumberg, Clinton, Iowa. Dear Mr. Blumberg: I guess I am to blame. I remember telling you that the only thing we could do for you was the "one room" (so-called) Usonian Automatic which we can show you if you come to see it. Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright (Signed), October 4th, 1955."
Size: 11 x 8.5
S#: 1092.26.0303
Frank Lloyd Wright signature. See additional signatures.1956 Date: 1956
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Day in Chicago Layout (Signed) (Produced by Cary Caraway with Frank Lloyd Wright) (Note: This item included an archive of other Caraway/Wright items)
Author: Caraway, Cary
Description: Layout for a booklet for the Frank Lloyd Wright Day in Chicago. Signed within the red square by Frank Lloyd Wright. "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" was exhibited in Chicago from October 16, 17 and 18, 1956 at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mile-High Building was shown for the first time Tuesday, October 16, with a 22-foot visualization of mile-high building which Wright proposed for Chicago. Mayor Daley proclaimed October 17, Frank Lloyd Wright Day. The layout was reminiscent of Wright’s Square Papers, but the final was rectangle in size. Cary Caraway and Rodney Griffiths were co-chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Day. The red square was created with a red pencil, the signature was signed in pencil. Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway.
Size: 8.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 10
S#: 1147.116.1121
The red square was created with a red pencil, the signature was signed in pencil.1957 Date: 1957
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Cary Caraway.
Description: Letter dated March 23rd, 1957 from Frank Lloyd Wright to Cary Caraway. Text: "Dear Cary: Not ready to take this part in fund-raising yet. Come out with William Stuart and we'll talk it over. Affection, Frank Lloyd Wright. March 23rd, 1957." Signed: "F LL. W." William M. Stuart was the president of the Martin-Senour Paint Company, which developed a selection of paint colors developed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1955 and was part of the Taliesin Ensemble which included: Heritage-Henredon, Furniture; Karastan, Rugs; The Martin-Senour Company, Paints; Minic, Accessories; F. Schumacher & Co., Fabrics & Wallpaper. In February 1957, Stuart was named the Midwest regional chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. Printed on Taliesin West Letterhead. Beige laid paper with the watermark: "Permanized Plover Bond, Rag Content, U S A." Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway.
Size: 11 x 8.5
S#: 1205.118.1121
Date: 1957
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Cary Caraway about a court hearing in Madison concerning income tax, 1957.
Description: "Dear Cary: The Foundation is to appear at a court-hearing on Saturday, June 18th, at 10:00 a.m. in Madison, State of Wisconsin, concerning income tax. Our status as a cultural organization seems in jeopardy and taxation retroactive. The loss of our present status would probably ruin our work. We are writing to some of you staunch boys now out in the world for yourselves, asking you to testify as to what of cultural value you received from life at Taliesin - backing that up with a statement of what you are now doing. Some photographs of your buildings of published recognition of work would help give testimony credence. Would you appear for us in this struggle and testify at the hearing? We are on the way to Bagdad on commission, returning about May 21st. Kindly let us hear from you at Taliesin North. The greatest service you could render us would be to appear in court and testify to the value of pour work in Organic Architecture where you were concerned with Taliesin leadership. The Foundation will pay your expenses to and from Wisconsin. The matter is serious. By our enemies we may have Taliesin taken away from us. Affectionately," (Signed) "F. LL. W" "Frank Lloyd Wright. May 9th, 1957."
Size: Letterhead: 11 x 8.5.
S#: 1205.78.0517Date: 1957
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to William Benton, 1957.
Description: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to William Benton introducing Cary Caraway. Text: "Dear Bill: This will introduce you to Cary Caraway who is [a] "Taliesin" spark-plug for the International Organization proposing to raise a ten million dollar endowment fund in order to promote the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Kindly listen to him and if there is anything you are willing to do to help 'organize' I shall be immensely gratified. Affectionately, Frank Lloyd Wright. N. B. Cary is not asking for money but for your know-how and endorsement." Hand written correction: "Taliesin." Sighed: "Frank." Not dated, circa 1957. William Benton was an American Senator from Connecticut, and was publisher of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Printed on Taliesin West Letterhead. Beige laid paper with the watermark: "Permanized Plover Bond, Rag Content, U S A." Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway.
Size: Letterhead: 11 x 8.5, Envelope: 9.5 x 4.125.
S#: 1205.119.1121Date: 1957
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Fowler McCormick, 1957.
Description: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Fowler McCormick introducing Cary Caraway. Text: "Dear Fowler: This will introduce you to Cary Caraway who is [a] "Taliesin" spark-plug for the International Organization proposing to raise a ten million dollar endowment fund in order to promote the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Kindly listen to him and if there is anything you are willing to do to help 'organize' I shall be immensely gratified. Affectionately, Frank Lloyd Wright. N. B. Cary is not asking for money but for your know-how and endorsement." Hand written correction: "Taliesin." Sighed: "Frank." Not dated, circa 1957. Fowler McCormick, the son of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller, was the third generation of his family to head the International Harvester Company. Printed on Taliesin West Letterhead. Beige laid paper with the watermark: "Permanized Plover Bond, Rag Content, U S A." Acquired from the estate of Cary Caraway.
Size: Letterhead: 11 x 8.5, Envelope: 9.5 x 4.125.
S#: 1205.120.1121
