To Frank Lloyd Wright [Letter 113]

Item Reference Code: 102_21A_006_001

Date(s) of creation

Undated

Recipient

Frank Lloyd Wright

Transcript

Text of an undated telegram presumably sent shortly after AR’s receipt of the preceding letter from Wright:

MR. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
TALIESIN
SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN

WOULD YOU OBJECT SERIOUSLY IF I CAME OUT TO TALIESIN FOR A TWENTY MINUTE INTERVIEW IF ONLY TO PERSUADE YOU THAT MY HERO HAS NOT GOT FLAMING RED HAIR AND TO LEARN FROM YOU WHAT YOUR OBJECTION IS TO THE NAME ROARK. THIS BOOK MEANS MORE TO ME THAN A TOUR DE FORCE, SEEKING AS I AM TO INTERPRET THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF FICTION THE SIGNIFICANCE AND BEAUTY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE. PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO BE AS BRUTAL AS YOU LIKE IN EXPRESSING YOUR WISH IN REGARD TO MY TRIP AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU’D WIRE ME COLLECT.

SINCERELY

AYN RAND

 

On November 22, Wright’s secretary wired AR: “Sorry. Mr. Wright has already left for the Arizona desert.”