1919
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Handwritten Letter from Wright
to Miriam Noel in 1919 while he was in Japan working on the Imperial Hotel.
Written on The Ikao Hotel letterhead, Ikao, Japan.
"–1919.
Miriam - dearest: I have gone to 'keep my eye
off the other fellow'. It will a hard work for me! against my grain but I
know how to concentrate and to hope.
I shall write Krymska that I realize I need look
no-where for causes for your condition except in my own chicanery jealousies
and suspicions.
I will write Wigginture the same. Mogind also -
although that has already been done.
I had already written Sherman Booth in my last
letter to him that 'you had made me a better, straighter man and a dirty job
you had had of it.'
Read your Science in this ideal cool healing
spot of earth. I will be doing the same for my life!
Do not despair - God is, you know and outcasts
though we are and sinful as I am he knows and is kind - because he is good.
'The work of Frank Lloyd Wright' has a new and
sinister look to me now. I shall wince when I see it on the drawings and
books -
I shall think of that other work to be
attributed to that same name - with perfect truth.
God bless you - my dear - I needed you so much
more than you needed me. I know now what I - what is me in
human sense has done -- Frank."
Published in
Autograph Collector, July 1999,
page 31, and "was offered by Seaport Autographs for $4,250 in 1990." Robert
Edwards Auctions reported that in 2005 it sold for $2,900. 7.5 x 10.25. High
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