[Letter] 1945 May 25, [Lakeland, Fla. to] Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring Green, Wis.

              Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright
Spring Green, Wisconsin
May 25, 1945
My  dear Mr. Wright:
First of all, I want to tell you how
much we enjoyed your visit to our College. I trust
that you had a good trip home.
I wish you would dictate a short letter to your secretary about what you think of Mr. Val
Clear who went up on the train with you.
Here are a few observations I want you to
remember when you make up the plans for the re-building
of the chapel:
(1) You must keep in mind that the sun in
Florida for at least nine months out of the year is very
hot. One of the sharpest criticisms that has come to me
about the chapel is the sun shining down on the audience
from the skylight during the service. It is impossible
for people to bear it. We have to stop the meeting and
ask the people to move out of the sun. Then, before the
service is over, the sun has moved over into another portion of the audience. I hope you will devise some plan to
take care of this criticism. Perhaps, this can be taken
care of by certain kinds of glass. If so, you must tell
us about it, and also where we can get it. I hope you won't
suggest curtains, because they are not feasible. We cannot
get up to change them.
(2) The second thing I hops you will do is
to re-build it in such a way that we can ventilate it, or
else suggest an air-conditioning plant. This, of course,
cannot be done until after the war. Let me remind you
again that for nine months out of the year in Florida the
weather is hot- very hot. When the sun beats down upon this
ooncrete for a few hours the inside of the building becomes
boiling heat.