Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Letters, 1926-1931, to Maude E. Devine
Collection number: Special Collections M0518
Creator:
Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd.
Extent:
96 p. (25 letters and 1 postcard)
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1989.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Letters, 1926-1931, to Maude E. Devine , M0518, Dept. of Special Collections,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical Note
Olgivanna was Wright's third and last wife. Maude E. Devine was the friend who transcribed the manuscript of Wright's autobiography.
Scope and Content
The letters span the period of the bank seizure of Taliesin, Wright's work on The Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, plans for a resort,
San Marcos in the Desert (never built), "Graycliff," a summer house for his old patron, Darwin D. Martin, and other projects.
Includes a small snapshot of the Wright's daughter, Iovanna, enclosed with the letter of 9 Jan. 1927.
Access Terms
Devine, Maude E.
Martin, Darwin D.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architecture, Modern--20th century.