Frank Lloyd Wright Dissing Skyscrapers, Signed & Annotated Letter With LOA from JSA

Single page typed letter signed with handwritten annotations, 8.25" x 9.5", with stationary imprint of "Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, Spring-Green, Wisconsin.." Dated " February 29, 1932", and signed by Frank Lloyd Wright in full signature "Frank Lloyd Wright" with also added numerous annotations. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity by James Spence, LLC. Fine condition.

Written to Lester Markel, Editor of the Sunday Magazine for the New York Times, Wright composes a jocular ironic letter shown below:

" .. I have to thank you for winning a bet- a year's subscription to the times.

My bet that you would not add the subscription to the fee for the article nor send a single extra copy. Of course he will if you will write him (as I did to her satisfaction) was Mrs. Wrights bet - I'll take the money from the childrens bank and give it to you if he doesn't. So by robbing the bank we get the Times"…

Doesn't this "touch" you?

By the way is the article abandoned or is it coming out some itme. If it is coming out could you kindly say when? I mean would you?

We need the decreasing of the skyscrapers in the country. Would you please send it back?"

Journalist and editor Lester Markel (1894-1977) was the Sunday editor of The New York Times from 1923 to 1964, and published a number of articles written by Frank Lloyd Wright during his career. The year this letter was written, Wright and his wife began the Taliesin Fellowship, inviting students to come to the estate to study and work under Wright's tutelage. During the first year, twenty-three students came to stay with the couple, and the program eventually evolved into the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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