DR.LUDD M.SPIVEY:THE FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE:LAKELAND:FLORIDA
Dear Dr.Spivey: Your letter received and here's tardy acknowledgement
of the $500.00 on account.
I hate to ask for money always, but what can I do?
The clay came and is going into work.
You should remember that it is not just a chapel we are designing but the
first unit in an aggreation of buildings - and what we work out now decides
the fate of the whole. We can save you many tens of thousands of dollars
by faithful preparation now. I know it is unlike anything in your experience with architects and it must
be hard to be patient. Please pay little attention to Charlie's vagaries.
I guess you do not need the remark.
We will be sending sample blocks before very long but we have to give up
the first model-maker we took and take on another. I want to use the same
clay for the sidewalks throughout the work. The color of the whole will be
very light and clean but will not be glaring as I see it.
Please be patient. We may seem slow but we will be faithful and we do "know
our stuff."
Our best to you all.
N.B. The twelth of March will be all right for the visit you want me to
make. I'll send some sketches for a house and the dormitories - but you
have sent me no measurements of the property we are to use. Will you do
this at once?
Sincerely yours,
Frank Lloyd Wright
TALIESIN
PHOENIX:ARIZONA
February 11th,1939
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