ALS signed “Wright,” one page, 11.75 x 9.25, personal "Orchestra Hall, Chicago" letterhead, no date but postmarked November 20, [annotated 1913 in pencil]. Letter to Darwin D. Martin in Buffalo, New York, in part: "I dare say you are quite right about the blue print, but the boys say they did not see it and the letter even has disappeared. We are attending to the matter at once and writing Matthews Bros. for copies of them…I think in moving to the country my copies were destroyed—at any rate a diligent search has failed to turn up any thing but scale drawings. The Forest Avenue home is in perfect order now…we are 'circularizing' it—getting out a larger folder with photos and in connection with the other two and mailing them to each of the 2000 members of the Chicago Real Estate Board. This on the advice of a clever lawyer real estate man here whom I consulted—Mr. Little paid the notes in question for me when I had fallen in arrears—unbeknown to me he kept the notes themselves when paid as some sort of security…Perhaps he wants to wait until he gets through with me on the house." Wright adds an initialed postscript to the upper right, in part: "Would you be interested in seeing some articles of virtue for your house to apply on the debt—I could send you some things worthwhile if you did and I could wipe out a thousand or two accrued interest in this way. That deadly 'interest'!" In very good to fine condition, with overall creasing.
Wright designed a house for Darwin D. Martin at 125 Jewett Parkway in Buffalo, New York, built between 1903-1905. It is considered one of the most important projects from Wright's 'Prairie School' era, and ranks along with The Guggenheim in New York City and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania among his greatest works. An interesting piece of correspondence to one of the great architect's past patrons.
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