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Guide to the Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Letters, 1926-1931, to Maude E. Devine
Special Collections M0518
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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.
None.
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.
Purchased, 1989.
[Identification of item] Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Letters, 1926-1931, to Maude E. Devine , M0518, Dept. of Special Collections,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Olgivanna was Wright's third and last wife. Maude E. Devine was the friend who transcribed the manuscript of Wright's autobiography.
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.
Devine, Maude E.
Martin, Darwin D.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architecture, Modern--20th century.