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[ARCHITECTURE]. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867–1959). Typed letter signed (“Frank” and “F. LL. W”), to Lawrence “Larry” Tibbett, Taliesin, 22 January [1942]. One page, oblong 8vo (216 x 279 mm), on red–printed Taliesin stationary, notation in upper margin probably in Tibbett’s hand (“Tickets for opera?”), creased with some spotting at margins. Wright writes to the New York Opera singer regarding the architect’s daughter, Iovanna, as she has been studying the harp and that he hopes Tibbett will call her to talk with her about music as “she wouldn’t dream of calling [Tibbett] up even if [Wright] asked her to do so”. Wright concludes with calling Tibbett’s city (New York) “Godless” but he shall be there in a fortnight. Tibbett, the baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, revealed in a Wisconsin State Journal article on 9 November 1938, that “Wright is one of the greatest men in the world. And his autobiography–I keep it on a table beside my bed at home; I can open it at any page and find an answer to any problem that has been stumping me”. He goes on to praise the architect’s work, especially his share in designing the Chicago Auditorium theatre as being “one of the two finest auditoriums in the world”.