Frank Lloyd Wright Autographed Letter.

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd.

Item Number: 3789

Taliesin :, 1940.

Autograph letter signed by Frank Lloyd Wright addressed to “Mrs. Isabelle R. Martin: “Graycliff”: Derby: New York. The letter reads, “My dear Mrs. Martin: I’ve tried again and again to get people interested in the screens. I finally said you might be persuaded to accept $1500.00 for the pair- and still they don’t act. If I could show them I am sure I could sell them and would guarantee $1,000.00 for them from some source or other if you sent them on to me at Taliesen. I could show them to people who are constantly coming in. Would you care to do this?” The letter is dated September 4th, 1940 and is on his Taliesin letterhead. Graycliff, is an estate on a high cliff overlooking Lake Erie, and was designed in 1926 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Isabelle R. Martin and her husband, Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin Company executive, also the recipients of this letter. Matted and framed.

1940 and is on his Taliesin letterhead. Graycliff