WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Three typed letters signed with a few hand-corrections ("Frank"), to Fowler McCormick, William Benton, and H. C. Price.  

Each 1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, with typed envelope, creased.

Three fundraising letters, in which Wright introduces Cary Caraway to each recipient: "This will introduce you to Cary Caraway who is [a] spark-plug for the International Organization proposing to raise a ten million dollar endowment fund in order to promote the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation anything you are willing to do to help 'organize' I shall be immensely gratified."   Wright is careful to note that he's not asking for money, but rather requesting help with endorsing the efforts of the Foundation.  

Fowler McCormick, the son of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller, was the third generation of his family to head the International Harvester Company. William Benton was an American Senator from Connecticut, and was publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Harold Charles Price founded the H. C. Price Company, which specialized in pipeline construction and non-corrosive pipe coatings. Wright designed the firm's headquarters, The Price Tower, which was built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1956.


Property of the Caraway Family

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