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This microfilm series records three separate but related archival collections given to the stanford university archives by paul r. and jean s, hanna:

1, Fifty-three (53) binder volumes of correspondence with Frank Lloyd Wright and others, telegrams, telephone notes, contracts, building specifications, financial transactions, and other items, covering a half-century from 1930 through 1981, clrca 6,000 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS RECORD THE STORY OF Mr, WRIGHT'S designing of the project, the contruction of several buildings - accomplished in five phases, the role of stanford university, the public and architects 7 interest in the project, an evaluation by the the clients, and many related aspects,

2, 184 sketches and drawings (mostly blueprints) by Frank Lloyd Wright, consultants, and the hannas,

3, Five albums of photographs of the original site, stages of construction, exterior and interior shots, furniture and furnishings. over 500 photos taken by professional architectural photographers and by the clients,

This microfilm series is available from the Architectural History Foundation or the MIT Press.

a publication entitled frank lloyd wright's hanna house:

the Clients' Report by Paul R, and Jean S, Hanna is available as background from the publishers: the Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press, 1981—9 x 10--163pp.— 125 black and white illus,, 12 pp, color illus,— $25,00

The publishers provide a special guide to accompany these microfilms. this guide booklet contains: (1) an index to the 53 binder volumes of documents, (2) a list and brief description of 184 blueprints, and (3) over 500 photographs,

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January 7, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70 Street New York, NY 10021

Dear Victoria:

When Jean and I returned from several weeks of R & R, we found your letter from London. We hope your stay in Europe was a good one, and that you escaped the horrible weather which attacked the east coast of the U.S.A.

Jean and I have been requested to speak to several groups about the new book. There seems to be a growing interest in it.

We recently stopped for two nights with Randell Makinson at the Gamble House in Pasadena. He and his committee are planning a big party in southern California at which Jean and I are to be guests. In fact, you may know more about it than we do.

The microfilming is complete, and I am to pick up the last of the 184 blue prints this week. Then on January 17, Stanford University is opening an exhibit of the making of our book in the rotunda of the main library. They are now selecting the materials to go in the exhibit which will be open for a month or more.

Is there any possibility that you can get the book reviewed by one of the weekly magazines such as TIME or NEWS WEEK?

Jean and I are looking forward to the possibility of coming east and an evening with you and our friends in the Foundation.

A Happy New Year to you, Julianne, Karen and the rest.

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820009 TWO STORIES: Sandra O'Brien, 497-1780 or 497-3811 Bob Beyers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STANFORD—

Prof. George Houle, director of the Early Music program at Stanford, will give two lectures entitled "Learning to Listen" at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 11 and 18, in Kresge Auditorium.

The first lecture will focus on the relationship of words and music in a Bach cantata and will show how music enhances the emotional and structural sense of words.

TheYeJationship of Baroque music and dance is the subject of the second lecture, which will include a demonstration by the Stanford Baroque Dance Ensemble. / The lectures are sponsored by The Music Guild at Stanford, a volunteer group whose membership contributions and activities support performance scholarships for music students at Stanford. Tickets are available through the Music Guild Office (497-1780 or 497-3811) or at the door. Single tickets: $4 general, $3 Guild members, $2 seniors and students. Series: $6 general, $5 Guild members. -30—

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STANFORD— Emeritus Prof, and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna have given Stanford archival materials from Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House, including some 200 sketches and plans and more than 500 photographs.

A sampling of the materials, which include 6,000 pages of correspondence, contracts, building specifications, and financial transactions from 1930 to 1981, will be shown in the exhibit gallery off the

Lurie Rotunda in the West Wing of Green Library until Feb. 20.

Coordinated by Sara Timby, the exhibit may be seen between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and from 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

The Hannas gave their home to the University in 1974. Now the official residence of the

University provost, it was selected for inclusion in the national register of the National Trust for Historic

Preservation in 1978.

Located at 737 Frenchman's Rd. on a knoll overlooking the main campus, the house has a floor plan, landscaping, and some furnishings based on the six-sided figure of a honeycomb cell. Wright felt

"the obtuse angle is more suited to human to and fro than the right angle."

The Hannas commissioned Wright to design their home in 1935. Its hexagonal grid plan was his first use of this theme.

The Hannas both were raised in clergyman's families, and spent much of their respective childhoods moving from home to home. During their courtship, a primary topic of conversation was their conception of an ideal home. After Wright finished his masterpiece, they lived there 37 years.

The Hannas remain very active on campus, where Paul is the Lee L. Jacks professor of child education, emeritus, and s enior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. 1/20/82- —30—

EDITORS: For more information or pictures, contact Timby at (415) 497-4054. Hanna's phone is 497-1086. 820010 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF FINE ART/ GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART TORONTO. CANADA M5S IA1

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Hanna House tours resume this month

The Stanford Museum of Art docents will resume tours of the Hanna- Honeycomb House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this month.

Tours of the House, which is located on the Stanford campus, are offered for adults on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 2, 2: 15, and 2:30 p.m Please call the Educational Services Office of the Stanford Museum of Art for reservations: 497-3469. PRH & JSH-

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Would you inscribe if for me, please? HOOVER INSTITUTION OX WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE 830014

Stanford, California 94305

January 15, 1982

Hugh and Suzanne Johnson 16 Valley Road Princeton, N.J. 08540

Dear Johnsons:

Edgar Tafel, before he took off for Europe, sent me your proposal for a motion picture on Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect .

My wife and I are delighted with your sketch of the project. Your sensitivity to and knowledge of the philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright is so well done that the picture will do what has not been accomplished by most attempts to do a documentary on a great person. Your sketch is comprehensive and well balanced among the many facets of this man.

Have you seen our publication, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna

House: The Client's Report , released in November by the MIT Press, and the Architectural History Foundation? It may be of some assistance to you.

We have given our Frank Lloyd Wright archives to Stanford University. They have been microfilmed by Eastman Kodak for MIT Press and the Architectural History Foundation. I enclose a statement of the extent of these archives.

Your project is an exciting one. If we can be of any assistance, know that we would do our best to comply.

Cor

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

PRH:atk Enclosure cc: Edgar Tafel

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29 January 1982

Mr. Paul R. Harma Hoover Institution Stanford, California 94305

Dear Paul;

I was re-reading your nice letter of 1 December with special reference to the Hanna House book. My office force was thoughtful enough to give me a copy for Xmas and I've enjoyed reading every word of it. I especially was interested in your comments about the A. I. A. plaquing ceremonies and noted the photograph of the plaque I designed. However, I feel it would have been nice to have mentioned the A. I. A. F.LL.W. committee of which I was chairman (other members were Alden B. Dow and Ed Stone). Since I never was able to get any cooperation during the 3 year existence of our committee from Ed, I requested his replacement with L. Morgan Yost of Kenilworth, Illinois, good friend and most knowledgeable person re: F.LL.W., who was extremely helpful in our work.

If I send my copy out to you, would you please autograph it for me? I'd most appreciate it. I was also most interested in the F.LL.W. logo he designed for your house as I've never seen it before. The pamphlet issued 7 November 1981 is well done and I was glad you sent me a copy along with the printed invitation.

Gardina and I were scheduled and all set to spend last Thanksgiving week-end with Fred and Helen MacKie at their place in Palm Desert, California, but this had to be cancelled due to Helen's coming down with cancer of the throat (malignant) and was forced to have an immediate operation, which apparently proved successful and she is currently undergoing regular treatments. I thought if we got to Palm Desert we might possibly swing up to Stanford to see youall and the Hanna-Honeycomb if convenient to you and Jean at that time, We'll have to wait for another more convenient time for all concerned. OFFICE OF 820015 A MacKIEand KAMRATH aia ARCHITECTS

Mr. Paul R. Hanna 29 January 1982 Page Two

Gardina joins me in sending our best wishes to you and Jean.

Cordially,

Karl Kamrath, F.A.I. A.

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P.S. As far as I know, Taliesin sent photostats of your house plans to me along with plans of the other 13 projects, making 14 in all. The only projects for which they had no originals were the two Taliesins and Johnson Wax which made a total of 17 projects. Next time at the A. I. A. Headquarters I'll try to check this out, as all these photostats are still in the wooden box that Taliesin sent th am in to me and I, in turn, sent them on to the A. I. A. to be placed in the A. I. A. Archives in the new headquarters building. , 820016 HHAA>

I 1 HISTORIC HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Decacur House, 1600 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 673-4025

29 January 1982

Dear Member:

As our records indicate, your membership with 'the Historic House Association of America has expired. Your membership was effective through January 1, 1982.

If you would, however, like to continue supporting our organization, receiving our publications and taking advantage of our workshops and seminars, a membership renewal card , along with a business reply envelope are enclosed.

Individual memberships are $25 annually, organizational memberships, $50, and corporate memberships $100. Contributions are also welcome and are tax deductible.

With your support we can increase the frequency, substance and length of our -- bimonthly publication, Historic Houses , provide you with more technical advice to really answer your questions on tax legislation and on restoration through specific pamphlets, conduct more workshop sessions in specific locales of the country to deal with the specific regional preservation needs, and expand our programs at our annual preservation conference (to be held this year, March 17-21, in Pasadena.) We are finding it increasingly difficult to provide these services for you, especially in light of the recent Administration budget cuts. Please help us to thrive and grow!

Please allow your membership renewal card and payment enough time to reach our office by February 28, 1982.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated prompt attention to this matter.

Si ncerely yours Oo »«

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Enclosures OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNI VERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORAN

820017

Date : January 29, 1982

To Hanna House Board of Governors

From : Elizabeth Marincola Office of the President

Subject: Board of Governors Meeting Friday, February 12, 1982

This is to confirm that there will be a meeting of the Hanna Honeycomb House Board of Governors on Friday, February 12, from 8:00 - 9:00 a.m., in the President's Conference Room. It will be to discuss the detailed plans of the major renovation of the Hobby Shop.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. Athenaeum of Philadelphia, and scheduled for Friday evening, 23 April. For further infor- Art and Architecture Thesaurus mation write to: society of Architectural Historians, 1700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, The National Endowment for the Humanities and Pennsylvania 19103. other funding organizations have awarded a grant totaling $125,240 to the Art and Archi- tecture Thesaurus project, administered by Contributions Rensselaer polytechnic institute in Troy, N.Y., for the production of the architecture portion of the thesaurus and the development Our thanks to... of policy and methodology for the subsequent work on the decorative and visual arts section. Lists of architectural terms used in CALIFORNIA the journal of the Society of Architectural

Historians , the Avery Index to Architectural Bancroft Library, university of California at

periodicals , the thesaurus of the picture Berkeley Division of the public Archives of Canada, the British Architectural Library's list of sub- ...the urban conservationist in Pasadena who jects, and from RILA (Repertoire international informed us of the acquisition by the Bancroft

de la litterature de l'art) , will be compared Library of the architectural drawings and

with architectural terms extracted from Li- office files of Arthur Brown . brary of Congress Subject Headings (9th edi-

tion) . These will be studied and, where ne- Stanford University Archives cessary, decisions will be made to delete, add, or modify items. For further information ...the publishers of Frank Lloyd Wright's

write pat Molholt, Associate Director, of Li- Hanna-Honeycomb House: The Client's Report , braries, Rensselaer polytechnic institute, who told us that the material collected in the Troy, N.Y. 12181. course of its research will be presented to the Stanford university Archives after being microfilmed by the Eastman Kodak Company for Conferences and Meetings the MIT press and the Architectural History Foundation, included are 100 drawings, 300 photographs, and about 6,000 pieces of cor- HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMITTEE, AIA respondence, telegrams, sketches and notes.

Members of the Historic Resources Committee of the ftnerican institute of Architects met at MARYLAND the national headquarters in Washington, D.C., on 15-16 'October. A sub-committee on Maryland Historical Society and the Baltimore architectural records resolved among other City Hall Archives things 1) to encourage the AIA Foundation to support its own collection of drawings and ...the researcher who reported that a large architectural records, 2) to distribute in- collection of drawings by architect George A. formation to the institute's members describ- Frederick is housed in the Maryland Historical ing their role in the work towards the preser- Society and that Frederick's drawings for the vation of architectural records and the ways Baltimore City Hall are in the Baltimore City COPAR can be of service, and 3) to endorse the Hall Archives. continuation and expansion of the recording efforts of the National Architectural and Engineering Record within the united states MASSACHUSETTS Department of the interior. The Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge) NEW TECHNOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES ...to the librarian who informed us of Har- The annual meeting of the Society of Archi- vard's acceptance of the collections of former tectural Historians in New Haven will include Dean Jose Luis Sert and the late Arthur Shur- a session on "New Technology in Architectural clif , who served as landscape architect for Archives," chaired by Sandra Tatman of the Williamsburg, Virginia.

*1 CD H c Co 1 8SC019 LIBRARY BULLETIN STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Volume 34, Number 10 February 1, 1982

DARLA CROCKETT JOINS MEYER STAFF

I am happy to announce the appointment of Darla Crockett as Assistant Librarian and Head of the Circulation Services Division at Meyer Library, effective January 18. Darla's appointment ends a year-long search for a replacement for Roxanna Siefer.

Darla is a recent graduate of the School of Library and Infor- mation Studies at UC-Berkeley and previously spent nearly ten years with the San Mateo County Library. She has been active in the California Library Association and served as a facilitator for the regional and Governor's conferences prededing the White House Conference on Libraries.

In her new position at Meyer, Darla will be responsible for managing the Library's largest division, with 16 support staff and approximately 70 student assistants over a 110-hour schedule of weekly operation. She will oversee a circulation of approximately 200,000 per year and the maintenance of a collection of about 140,000 books and audio/visual materials and more than 1,500 reader stations. Darla will also provide undergraduate reference service during some hours and assist with Meyer's orientation and bibliographic instruction programs.

I hope that all of you will join me in welcoming Darla Crockett

to both the world of academic 1 ibrarianship and to the Stanford Libraries

Elizabeth Salzer (Meyer Library)

CONSERVATION NEWS

The January floods of northern California have taken their toll on local libraries, both public and private. The challenge of reclaiming books from mud as well as water has befallen a number of librarians

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CONSERVATION NEWS (CON'T) already hard-pressed dealing with lack of funds resulting from Propo- sition 13. In several cases staff were unable to return to the library for several days due to flooding and poor road conditions. When they did return and were able to assess damage, it was obvious that no trucks could be brought in to ship material out for at least several days. If books were under water, pumping water out was delayed until it was clear that trucks could be brought to the library to take things to the freezer. The water prevented books from swelling and prevented mildew from forming. Fortunately, the weather turned cold, and that, too, helped the recovery efforts by retarding mildew and swelling. If books were imbedded in mud, they were gently rinsed under cold running water before being sent to the freezer. Unfortunately, in many cases, volumes had to be abandoned because of excessive damage to the text block from mud and filthy water. Librarians had to assess on the spot which of their materials were the highest priority so they could be saved first. There were only two cases where microfilm was involved, and in both it was only damp and could be reprocessed and dried.

A number of businesses also were flooded and needed assistance with reclaiming their wet records. Single pages are much easier to deal with, and there is a local business which specializes in vacuum-drying unbound material. They have such a backlog of need, however, that firms are freezing records until they can be dried.

Private individuals concerned about their collections have been given help in air-drying techniques unless the number of books warranted a referral to Lockheed or Document Reprocessors . Air-drying is slow and time consuming, but if carefully done, the results can be suprisingly good. Many peopl e, digging out their homes, have cared enough about their books to take time and energy to call Stanford Libraries to find out how to do it. That kind of concern is very touching when one considers they have often lost almost everything.

The Conservation Office has received over sixty calls since January 4 asking for advice, including calls from public libraries in San Rafael, San Anselmo, Redwood City, Petal uma and Santa Cruz, the National Park Service, the Marin Civic Center, three locations of Crocker Bank, and several insurance companies.

The Stanford Libraries were considerably luckier this time with only minor damage due to leaking skylights. Government Documents, the Robinson Collection, and Central Circulation all had a few books drying in the corridors outside the Conservation Office. As an afterthought on January 11, the Music Library sustained a pipe break and sent three dozen thoroughly soaked volumes to Conservation. 820019 6

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CONSERVATION NEWS (CON'T)

The Conservation Office does have a handout sheet available describing how to care for wet materials, and we are available also to help or to give advice. In order to prevent having to deal with wet material, it is a good idea to slip books in plastic bags on yery wet days before giving them to patrons. Perhaps they will te returned the same way.

Sally Buchanan (Conservation Office)

CONSERVATION NOTES

The Conservation Office wants to remind library staff that the training slide-tape show made by the Yale Library for the purpose of training new staff in proper care and handling of library materials is available from the Meyer Library AVS Library. From January 15- February 15 it may be requested from the Conservation Office.

The correct white cotton ribbon to be used for tying up books instead of using rubber bands can now be obtained from Bob Garcia in the Supply Room. Using this flat cotton ribbon is especially important for brittle, fragile and/or valuable volumes to prevent permanent damage to the text block or soft covers.

Sally Buchanan (Conservation Office)

COME ON IN, THE WATER'S FINE: EDITORIAL POLICY UPDATE

Re your Editor's maunderings on the philosophy of inclusion and exclusion, an interesting fact has come to his attention: The Library, via the Director's Office, pays all the bills. Now, it should be obvious to even a Senior Editor that this fact imparts certain rights and privileges to (not to mention obligations on) the Library Adminis- tration. In the light of this Fact, the Bulletin becomes, in a low-key sort of way, Official. The Director's Office must exercise certain rights of review on any material issued in the Library's name and with the Library's money. Doew . 820G1S C

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COME ON IN, THE WATER'S FINE: EDITORIAL POLICY UPDATE (CON'T)

Basically, a tolerant policy of inclusiveness is followed. All manner of contributions are encouraged, but nothing is completely free from review. So, to the editorial policies given last issue must be added a broad and flexible principle of Propriety and Appropriateness.

We're all sensitive about our own creative efforts, and perhaps nothing is more personal than putting something down in our own words. Your Bulletin Editorial Staff and the Director's Office are aware of this fact and will be guided basically by the priciples given in the editorial in the last Bulletin. We live in a subtle and complicated world, and none of us are wholly free. But don't let such cosmic saws get you down or keep you from writing. Send in stuff and see what happens.

Eric Heath (Reference)

HANNA-HONEYCOMB HOUSE EXHIBIT

The Stanford University Archives is the recipient of an extensive collection of Frank Lloyd Wright material, including- letters, original plans, sketches,

-'W «~. K photographs , and other material about £(LW^\ the highly innovative American architect and his design of the residence of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna

Both children of clergymen, Professor and Mrs. Hanna spent much of their respective childhoodsmoving from home to home. While courting, a primary topic of conversation was their conception of the ideal house for their coming life together. Their mutal interest in architectural design resulted in a 1935 Frank Lloyd Wright commission to design their home on the Stanford Campus. Wright produced for the Hannas a hexagonal grid plan, his first use of this theme. The house is situated on a knoll overlooking the main campus at 737 Frenchman's Road. The floor plan, the landscaping and some of the furnishings are based on the six-sided figure of the honeycomb cell. Wright felt that "the obtuse angle is more suited to human to and fro than the right angle." The Hannas agreed. They lived happily with their home for thirty-seven years. In 1978 the National Trust for Historic Preservation selected the Hanna-Honeycomb House for inclusion in the National Register. 820019 i 5. Page 97

HANNA-HONEYCOMB HOUSE EXHIBIT (CON'T)

In 1974 Stanford University was given possession of the architectural masterpiece. The Hannas, still yery active on campus where Paul is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education, emeritus, and Senior Reserach Fellow at the Hoover Institution, felt that the house was essentially priceless, that it should be preserved as the architect had envisioned it and used by the campus community. It is presently the official residence of the Provost of Stanford University.

It is with this same spirit of sharing an artist's work that the recent gift of Wright material has been made publicly available through Stanford University Libraries. The archival material consists of some 6,000 pages of correspondence, contracts, building specifications, financial transactions, etc., covering the period between 1930-1981. Some 200 sketches and plans, and over 500 photos are included. A sampling of the material is currently on exhibit until February 20, 1982, in the exhibit gallery off the Lurie Rotunda in the West Wing of the Green Library. Hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 am to 6 pm, Friday and Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm.

Sara Timby (Special Collections)

( Editors note : Staff may be interested to know they can sign up for

a tour of the Hanna House by calling Marilyn Fogel , 497-3469. - J. Hoffman)

SULSA PERSONNEL CONCERNS COMMITTEE

The January meeting of the Personnel Concerns Committee was held on Monday, 18 January at 11:00 in Room 175A of Green Library East. As it was the last meeting under the chairmanship ojf Barry Hinman,the committee naturally reflected on its activities during the past year. Many of the issues with which we had dealt were still unresolved, and to them have been added the problems caused by the implementation of RLIN II. The committee felt, therefore, that it had to express its concern to David Weber, and a meeting was arranged for Thursday, 21 January at 11:00 in Room 175A.

The second meeting opened with a brief summary of what the committee felt were the main issues: 1) the renovation of the staff room; 2) the results of the library survey; 3) RLIN II; 4) lack of ) s***" £"

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communication within the library; 5) low morale in the library resultina9 fi™ all of the above. Mr. Weber in his reply took up these issues one

1 ^"ovation of the Staff - Room Some progress has been made i ne contract for the work should be signed by the end of the week of 18 January and bidding on the job should be completed the following week. The library is determined to undertake the task even though the long delay has caused the price of the work to increase considerably.

2) 1 ""^ long delay in makin th «e knownlnknown to ^^^the staff^^has beenk""^ 9 caused by difficulties in finding the correct way of interpreting the raw data and communicating the results efficiently. Staff will shortly receive a letter announcing the plan that has been chosen, which, in brief will be a five-phase program slated to begin the week of 8 Februaryy and to continue until May.

3) RUN II - The situation is very serious and the Director's Office am ° f he Pr° blems faced staff in ? ^ drying to do theirtlw jobs.\ Several? courses are being pursued ranging from a U nivers ty f° r "PPl—ntary funds the f I Vdeal w?th SckM!0g to f^quent consultations with RLIN S.™ n personnel and 9 y lrectors A ? - ™™ey of the situation will be made departmentHpn!^ r byK department in the first week of February and staff are urged to participate actively in order that the resultant information be as accurate and complete as possible. 4) Lack of Communication - A very real problem in the library In order to help the flow of information, in both directions, Mr. Weber proposed to meet with the committee every two three or months, and the offer was gladly accepted.

5) Low Morale - If there are improvements in the above four items, it is likely that morale will improve of itself.

F n h respo e t0 n Principal concerns, the committee asked severals eve^i furtherf„l ho ^ J questions and a frank exchange followed, concerned particularlypart1CUlarly with present. RLIN II-induced difficulties

t1ng f the commit shin ° ^e, under the chairman- ffri FloFleiShauer thG.r new ' Vice-President of SULSA, been decided has not yet

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EDITORIAL BOARD George R. Collins Columbia University Henry-Russell Hitchcock Institute of Fine Arts Spiro Kostof University of California, Berkeley Vincent Scully Yale University John Summerson Sir John Soane's Museum, London February 3, 1982

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Hanna Hoover Institution Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Jean and Paul,

Thank you for your letter of January 7. I have been out of town for several weeks, which is why it has taken so long to respond.

Regarding your request to try to get the book reviewed by Time or Newsweek I can only say that it has been brought to their attention. We know that Wolf von Eckhardt of Time has

seen it, as well as the book review editor of Newsweek , and that's really all we can do.

I hope you both are well and that we shall see you soon. —

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February 5, 1982

TO: Paul R. Hanna

FROM: Lieselotte Hofmann

RE: Fee for indexing Hanna-Wright Archives

Total fee: $560.00

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February 8, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse Ms. Julianne Griffin The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021

Dear Victoria and Julianne:

We have had no communication among us recently. We know you are deeply involved in new publishing ventures. And we are completely absorbed in editing two new books in our Education and Society series, and in completing our catalog to accompany the microfilm rolls on Hanna ' s Honeycomb House by Frank Lloyd Wright. We wish to report on the catalog.

We have finally received from the professional indexer a detailed index of the material in the 53 binders. That job cost us $600 and took the indexer almost two months to complete. Jean and I have done nothing else for the last five days but try to get the index in "camera-ready" shape. We will finish our editing of this index this week and hopefully have it re-

1 . on the word processor by next week. Then we plan to mail you two copies of the catalog which will have these parts:

. . A brief introductory statement of how to find items on the seven microfilm rolls. ^N

. . A catalog of the 184 drawings and blueprints (which we mailed to you many weeks ago)

.. An index of circa 5,000 items in the 53 binders.

.. A brief statement about the photographs.

It is our intent to provide you with "camera-ready" copy so you will not have to spend editorial time on it. If you think the copy is not ready, then inform us on what you advise and we can consider revision.

The Eastman Kodak Company furnished us one series of the seven microfilm rolls so we could prepare the introductory statement above. We still have that task to do but it won't take us long to do it.

The Stanford University Library has an exhibit this month on the "Making of a Book," a condensed version of the exhibit held in November at Hanna 's Honeycomb House. (continued) . — bcc: J. S. Hanna HOOVER INSTITUTION 82002& ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE

Stanford, California 94305

February 8, 1982

Mr. Karl Kamrath, F.A.I. A. 2713 Ferndale Place Houston, TX 77098

Dear Karl:

We have been off campus for several days. Upon returning, we found your letter of January 28.

First, let us renew our invitation to you to be our guests at our condo on the Stanford Campus. We have a guest room ready for you and Gardina.

We are pleased that you approve of our book on Frank Lloyd Wright. We, too, are disappointed that our editors cut great chunks out of the 550 page manuscript we submitted to them. We had an entire chapter, with the papers read, on the plaquing ceremony. And correspondence with A. I. A. and you as a part of that chapter all cut to reduce the final book to 148 pages.

We wrote a chapter of Frank Lloyd Wright and his use of the hexagon web system in H.H.H. That was cut. We are planning on an article for a journal rescued from that chapter.

Jean and I will be honored to inscribe a copy of the book to you. Send the book to us... better, bring it with you sometime soon.

Sorry to hear that Helen MacKie had throat surgery, but are pleased to learn she has recovered.

If you do inquire at A. I. A. headquarters about the drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright's seventeen buildings, find out if they ever did get a set of Hanna-Honeycomb

Eastman Kodak has now microfilmed seven rolls of our Frank Lloyd Wright archives. M.I.T. Press is distributing the set.

Give us the word on your dates for visiting us at Stanford.

Cordially,

17 cu/A. Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Been getting scraps of information about the sale in L.A. last week- finalizing in Scott Eliott's "scoop"- at 75 thousand, it doesnt seem like a scopp, unless theres more to the amount of items one hears bjf t 210 letters! Its a mystery as to what he will do with it- there might be some German buyers? Chagges the scene for letters- except that the Martin episode went over such a long

period of time. tVut>vt> U/t~\/ \»A*X. *f\*X>JL .

Not much here new- except I had a session with surgeons- had had what were thought migrain headaches, which turned out to be a benign brain tumor- had it taken out right away, am home a week, feeling mtfch better- they changed one kind of headache for others- the healing kind. HSS It does strange things- one looks backward, forward, did some writing- mostly against Landmarks as done here- am having a terrible time with them- several architects run thru your work as tho you are a first year student- they look down their noses unless its Bauhaus stuff cant remember if I weote

that I'm doing Tom Wolfe's townhouse . . . . it got into some gossip col's and the magazines are all rushing here to get the story he sure made the establishment mad, and thats what he wanted.... sold 110,000 books before paperback. The rest of us write for each other, whilst he reaches the general public.

However- I heard your book is out of print, or, that MIT sold out congratulations.

Have a real mad on against Heinz (Newsletter) he went and snooped around here at the Met, and got himself the consultation job of putting the Little House together I'd like to

kill him... after all I did to get it for them.... anyway, . r "*•/) rvXtv^ ^vflv I resigned from his "contributors", and told Taliesin why. I <*

Will be unhousridde^ in a few days, and can hardly wait.

Best to ean and yourself.. f. CAMPUS 820028 REPORT

Exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright materials donated by Hannas

Emeritus Prof, and Mrs. Paul R. from 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fridays and The Hannas commissioned Wright to Hanna have given Stanford archival Saturdays. design their home in 1935. Its hexagonal materials from Frank Lloyd Wright's grid plan was his first use of this theme. The Hannas gave their home to the Hanna-Honeycomb House, including The Hannas both were raised in University in 1974. Now the official some 200 sketches and plans and more clergyman's families, and spent much of residence of the University provost, it was than 500 photographs. their respective childhoods moving from selected for inclusion in the national A sampling of the materials, which home to home. During their courtship, a register of the National Trust for Historic include 6,000 pages of correspondence, primary topic of conversation was their Preservation in 1978. contracts, building specifications, and conception of an ideal home. After Wright financial transactions from 1930 to 1981, Located at 737 Frenchman's Rd. on a finished his masterpiece, they lived there will be shown in the exhibit gallery off the knoll overlooking the main campus, the 37 years. Lurie Rotunda in the West Wing of Green house has a floor plan, landscaping, and The Hannas remain very active on Library until Feb. 20. some furnishings based on the six-sided campus, where Paul is the Lee L. Jacks Coordinated by Sara Timby, the figure of a honeycomb cell. Wright felt professor of child education, emeritus, exhibit may be seen between 8 a.m. and 6 "the obtuse angle is more suited to human and senior research fellow at the Hoover p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and to and fro than the right angle." Institution.

Campus Report February 10, 1982 Page 9 HOOVER INSTITUTION x-file : FL1W ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE 620029

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February 10, 1982

Mr. L. W. Lane, Jr. Chairman of the Board, and Publisher, Sunset Magazine Willow and Middlefield Roads Menlo Park, CA 94025

Dear Bill:

Jean and I appreciate your comment about our Frank Lloyd Wright book. We are pleased that Sunset will have a note on the volume. Book stores are out of stock, waiting for "second printing" copies to arrive.

Rus Lee's service was an excellent tribute to our campmate. He lived an exceptional life.

Cordially, rrj2~A_ Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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two-level structure behind the The hobby shop is part of a separate, structure contains a guest main Honeycomb House. The lower level of this upper level is primarily a room (already refurbished and in use) . The shop for the Hannas. It is the large open room once serving as a hobby this area from its present University's intention at this time to convert living space. "garage/work shop" character to a functioning,

Function comfortable, informal, family The primary use of the area will be as a

be at ease; a place where things space. It is envisioned as a place to place to disappear to if some need not always be in apple pie order; a place to do projects, such as activity is going on at the main house; a sewing. overflow guest room. A secondary use for the space will be as an on the lower level of this Guests will normally stay in the guest room be accommodated at one time, structure; however, if several guests need to

some would then use the upper level space. structure (hobby shop and guest A long range plan exists for the whole

cottage, connecting bedroom and^ath^-^ room), to remodel it as a caretaker's ^ w ^~ "TUX XnWfi*-^ kitchen on the upper level. Though on the lower level to living area and ^^^ this the present improvements that plan is not being implemented at tifeg *^jj£

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Physical Scope

- Following is a list of construction ideas for the space, not necessarily

all-inclusive. The general ambience should be open, light, warm, and comfort

table.

1. remove long industrial light fixture

2. cover underside of roof with ceilings, probably grass cloth like

main house

3. finish soffits like main house, with lighting?

4. wall to wall carpet (reuse from main hous e) SV-^wftX {/STv^

5. move washer & dryer (either to separate garage storage room, or

into water heater closet in hobby shop)

6. remove plywood end wall by sink (leave half wall?)

7. improve sink area (use as wet bar?)

8. overhaul toilet room (new fixtures, surfaces - but no shower required)

9. remove furnace from fireplace wall, install baseboard heating

10. divide water heater closet for guests' use and general storage;

or create new closet space if washer & dryer located there

11. window coverings for all windows

12. wall finishes v ^^s^i'^^+^ffvp^^ii as *p»e.£XL_ ,3.

Furnishings

Furnishing items envisioned for the space include:

1. couch

2. small tables (2 or 3?)

3. comfortable chairs (2?)

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February 19, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021

Dear Victoria:

I enclose copies of correspondence that bears on the Frank Lloyd Wright/Martin archives. We are trying to solve the several problems. When you return to New York, would you phone me to discuss any progress in your efforts and ours.

Cord*«J.ly,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Stanford, California 94305

February 19, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse Ms. Juliarme Griffin The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021

Dear Victoria and Julianne:

In making our final index of the seven rolls of microfilms, we discovered that Eastman Kodak failed to photograph Volumes 45 and 46. So we had again to prepare these two volumes for the camera and I took them to San Francisco today. It will be a week or ten days before they photograph these papers and remake Rolls 4 and 5. And then we must redo part of the Index to the last four of the seven rolls.

Sorry about the delay, but we have to have the work as correct as possible.

We are so pleased to know that the book is selling so well. People keep asking us how to obtain copies. They say they try all book stores only to be told the stock is exhausted. Hope the press can get copies of the second printing to book stores soon.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

PRH:atk bcc: Dodie & Bill Haight Victoria Newhouse HOOVER INSTITUTION j&WbS&r^S* ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE Ij^SJx 820035 Stanford, California 94305 ^^^^^^

February 19, 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Reid R. Briggs 3901 East California Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91107

Dear Betty and Reid:

We keep you closely in mind and would like to know how the medical problems are being handled.

Sometime soon the Frank Lloyd Wright friends in Southern California are being invited to a party at the Gamble House at which time Jean and I will be present to talk about our Frank Lloyd Wright book to anyone interested. You will be receiving an invitation.

The Frank Lloyd Wright/Martin House archives which were bought by Mr. Elliott of Chicago are for sale at the fantastic price of $275,000. Victoria Newhouse, President of the Architectural History Foundation, is proposing that the University of Buffalo (owners of the Martin House) and Stanford University make an offer to purchase the Martin archives from Elliott for a figure short of $150,000. The two parties would divide the cost evenly.

The tough question would be how to divide the archives, once purchased. They should be kept together as a complete collection. There may be a solution on the ownership which some Soloman may devise.

But for the moment, would you be willing to share in the cost? You were most generous to offer to put $5,000 into the original bid. Would you be willing to share in the pool up to $5,000, the final figure depending on what we had to pay Elliott? Assuming, of course, that the parties could agree on how to handle the archive if we did purchase it.

I have had earlier correspondence with President Ketter of the State University of New York at Buffalo. You might be interested in seeing copies of that exchange.

We think the Martin House archives are rare and valuable, and we very much want them at Stanford. How do you respond to this proposition?

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow PRHratk Enclosures Victoria Newhouse ^ Paul Mosher HOOVER INSTITUTION Lied: FLLW ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE 820036

Stanford, California 94305

February 19, 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Haight 1725 San Vincente Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90402

Dear Dodie and Bill:

I have delayed answering your good letter of February 2 hoping we would have some resolution to the negotiations underway to purchase the Frank Lloyd Wright/Martin Archival Collection from Scott Elliott who now owns it. After he received the copy of my letter to him, he telephoned me offering to sell it to Stanford at an outrageous price of $275,000. I gathered he is suffering financially and might sell at $100,000 to $150,000.

Victoria Newhouse, President of the Architectural History Foundation, (co-publishers with MIT Press of our book) heard about the auction from the University of Buffalo (present owners of the Martin House) and became excited about the archives. (It seems that the unsuccessful bidder who dropped out at $70,000 was representing the University of Buffalo.)

Mrs. Newhouse is working on ways to save the Martin collection from being scattered to the winds. She proposes that the University of New York at Buffalo and Stanford University make an offer to purchase the Martin archives from Elliott at a figure short of $150,000. The two parties would share the cost evenly.

The tough question would be how to divide the collection or how to keep it intact. There may be a solution on the ownership which some wise Soloman may devine.

You were most generous to offer to put $5,000 into the original bid. Would you be willing to share in Stanford's bid up to $5,000, the final figure depending on what we had to pay Elliott? Assuming, of course, that the two parties could agree on how to handle the archive if we did purchase it.

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Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Haight Page 2 February 19, 1982

I enclose earlier correspondence I have had with President Ketter of the University of New York at Buffalo.

Randell Makinson of the Gamble House will give me next week the dates for the party for Frank Lloyd Wright friends in Southern California. You will be invited. Jean and I would very much like to see the Haight family while we are south for the party.

Cordi T?'[ycu Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

PRH:atk Enclosures 820037

Exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright materials donated by Hannas

Emeritus Prof, and Mrs. Paul R. from 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fridays and The Hannas commissioned Wright to Hanna have given Stanford archival Saturdays. design their home in 1935. Its hexagonal materials from Frank Lloyd Wright's grid plan was his first use of this theme. The Hannas gave their home to the Hanna-Honeycomb House, including The Hannas both were raised in University in 1974. Now the official some 200 sketches and plans and more clergyman's families, and spent much of residence of the University provost, it was than 500 photographs. their respective childhoods moving from selected for inclusion in the national A sampling of the materials, which home to home. During their courtship, a register of the National Trust for Historic include 6,000 pages of correspondence, primary topic of conversation was their Preservation in 1978. contracts, building specifications, and conception of an ideal home. After Wright financial transactions from 1930 to 1981, Located at 737 Frenchman's Rd. on a finished his masterpiece, they lived there will be shown in the exhibit gallery off the knoll overlooking the main campus, the 37 years. Lurie Rotunda in the West Wing of Green house has a floor plan, landscaping, and The Hannas remain very active on Library until Feb. 20. some furnishings based on the six-sided campus, where Paul is the Lee L. Jacks Coordinated by Sara Timby, the figure of a honeycomb cell. Wright felt professor of child education, emeritus; exhibit may be seen between 8 a.m. and 6 "the obtuse angle is more suited to human and senior research fellow at the Hoover p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and to and fro than the right angle." Institution.

Campus Report February 10, 1982 Page 9 820038 Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place, No. 20 Stanford, California 94305 PHONE (415) 322-8977

February 22, 1982

President Donald Kennedy- Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Don:

The underlined word, "official," in the attached news story has raised questions among friends. ^^

Can you tell us whether this word represents a decision made by Stanford University for the use of Hanna-Honeycomb House?

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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February 22, 1982

Mr. Edgar Tafel 14 East 11th Street New York, NY 10003

Dear Edgar:

I am distressed to learn that you had to undergo brain surgery. I know you are O.K. or you could not have typed the letter. I salute your recovery!

Yes, we were at the L. A. auction for the Martin archives. Elliott paid an outrageous price for them. We know he wants to sell them. Hope he does not sell separate pieces and scatter the collection to the winds. Scholars cannot use the collection effectively if they have to travel long distances to consult them.

Glad the work in the Wolfe's house is going well.

MIT Press is rushing a second printing of our book Have you seen it? How is your next publication progressing?

Keep up the recovery battle.

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Stanford, California 94305

February 22, 1982

Mr. Karl Kamrath, F.A.I. A. MacKie and Kamrath Architects 2713 Ferndale Place Houston, TX 77098

Dear Karl:

Jean and I are pleased that Tom Heinz and you have agreed that you will do the masthead design and a review

of our book for his Newsletter . Don't let our longtime friendship have anything to do with your objective review of the book. By the way, the publisher tells us the stores are completely out of stock and the MIT Press is rushing a second printing.

We are to travel to Pasadena in a few weeks to be present when the Gamble House (Green & Green) puts on an exhibit of our archives and book on Frank Lloyd Wright.

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Stanford, California 94305

February 22, 1982

Dr. H. A. Brooks Department of Art University' of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1

Dear Allen:

Has Conover sent you a copy of our book on Frank Lloyd Wright? If not, I have finally received an extra copy which I will give you if you have none. The first printing sold out and the Press is rushing another printing,

We hope your stay in Europe was a great success. Your book on Frank Lloyd Wright is excellent. We have reread it several times. We hope the public finds its great value.

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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The Conde Nast Publications Inc. 350 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10017 (212) 880-8800

Feb. 24, 1982

Dear Mrs. Hanna:

The enclosed story is scheduled to appear in a future issue of House & Garden in the "Dear House & Garden" column, most probably in the May or June 1982 issue.

I would be glad if you would kindly check all details. If you find any inaccuracies, it is important that you

telephone me collect immediately . My telephone number, direct line, is (212) 880-8181. The last date on which we can make any changes in the story is: Wedrwsday, March 3, 1982

Cordially,

c/vaje—

Margaret Morse DEAR HOUSE & GARDEN 82004*7

Office of Facilities Project Management February 25, 1982

OFFICE RECORD

RE: Honeycomb House Phase II (1904) Hobby Shop Remodeling

BOARD OF GOVERNOR MEETING

Date: February 12, 1982

Time: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Place: The President's Conference Room

Present: David Fulton, Jean & Paul Hanna, Al Hastorf, Bill Massy, Lynda Weisberg, Norm Wessells, Marlene Wine, Shirley Chen

Summary of the discussions related to the project program, design concept and budget.

Shirley Chen reported the development of the program, presented the schematic design and the estimated cost prepared by the architect. The major concerns are:

1). As far as design, the consensus is that the new partitions divide the open space into too many separate spaces which are not well defined.

2). The University should focus on the preservation of the historical building instead of spending $85,000 - $95,000 to remodel the hobby shop into a complete self contained living unit.

3). The suggestion is that the University should do the minimum work to convert this area into a liveable space. Physically it means to install roof insulation and new heating equipment; to improve sink area and toilet; to provide interior finishes such as ceiling, wall finish and carpet.

4). The exposed structural cable should remain, yet it should be furred in.

Basically, the suggestion is the same as the original draft of the program. The Office of Facilities Project Management will inform the architect to keep the design within the original scope.

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Date: February 25, 1982

To : All Participants of BOARD OF GOVERNOR MEETING

From : Shirley Chen

Subject: Honeycomb House Phase II (1904) Hobby Shop Remodeling

For your information, I am sending you an Office Record dated February 25, 1982 prepared by the Office of Facilities Project Management.

Please let me know if you have any comments.

Thank you.

SC/llk

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On We have given a framed medallion by Sullivan/ — Wright to the Stanford University Libraries. m Inasmuch as an identical one is a part of the 2 Hanna-Honeycomb House, we think you might like 2 to have the same inforamtion in answering 2 questions asked by visitors. \ a c 5 PRH:atk Attachment -< > z -n O » O c z <

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March 1, 1982

Mr. Paul Mosher Stanford University Library Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Paul:

We present to the Stanford University Libraries a framed medallion detailed by Frank Lloyd Wright while he was a young draftsman working for Louis H. Sullivan who designed the Shiller building in Chicago in 1892.

An identical medallion hangs in the Hanna-Honeycomb House and the Hannas display a "third on in their current residence.

I enclose a pair of photographs which should be fastened in the lower rectangular box at the bottom of the frame, perhaps within the two end spaces. We also enclose a typed text which you might edit, appropriately reproduce, and place between the photographs.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Dr. Paul Hanna Hoover Institute Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

Dear Dr Hanna

You are magnificent in your inspiring refusal to accept defeat in such a noble effort. Such dedication is something we all envy, if not strive for.

That was a marvelous day we shared together. Neither Dodie nor I will ever forget being able to capture enough of your enthusiam to be drawn along. You have no idea how much we wish our bid had carried the day, and we had been able to have a small part in the acquisition of the Martin papers. It wasn't the $5,000.00 — it was the moment, the spirit, the challenge and that little extra effort that we wish had made the difference.

Unfortunately, try as we will, we cannot recapture the same mood. Even if triple our evaluation of the papers was possible, and we do have a great deal of difficulty with that, I think we must decline to participate at this point.

We do look forward to seeing you and Mrs. Hanna when you are here for the Gamble House reception and do hope that you will be able to join us for dinner.

With all best sicU Bill Haight

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Dr. and Mrs. Paul Hanna Hoover Institution Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Jean and Paul,

Belated thanks for your letter of February 8. We are delighted to know that work with the microfilm has progressed almost to completion. It sounds like the index might be longer than the sixteen pages originally envisioned

We are waiting impatiently to hear if anything can be worked out between Stanford and the University of New York at Buffalo. Unfortunately, I think the latter is having unexpected problems with the monies that were pledged to the Frank Lloyd Wright project.

Sincerely,

Victoria Newhouse 830055

INLAND ARCHITECT MAGAZINE POST OFFICE BOX 10394 • CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60610 • (312) 321-0583 Published by Inland Architect Press, a Non-profit Illinois Corporation.

5 March 1982

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Nothing could have meant more to me than your generous, uplifting reaction to my essay on Frank Lloyd Wright. It is an admittedly concise depiction of a cosmic subject, but you are one of the few who understand how long and how earnestly I have explored Wright -- indeed one of the few who could understand my resolution to move ahead now, building upon my studies and findings thus far, to develop a full biography. This has been my life's desire, and one for which I have long prepared.

Because your letter moved me so deeply, because I believe that we are kindred in the conviction that a comprehensive, caring, and truthful account of Wright's life must come as much from the soul as from scholarship, I hope you won't mind my venturing here to seek your advice. .. .The venture of researching and writing such a book, as you so well know, will require a good deal of time, not to mention financial support; young editors and writers like me do not routinely loll in liquidity. But since the response to this American Heritage effort of mine has generally been encouraging, I am determined to bite the bullet, to cease spending my time on comparatively unimportant projects that merely "make a living," and devote five solid years to this book. I have thought through what I know already about Wright -- much of it fundamentally fresh and fascinating, I think; which means that I have also thought through, with utmost sobriety, what I must yet learn. The as-yet-unmined lode of facts and feelings contained in the Darwin Martin papers is the most recent vivid example of this, but by no means the only one. Still, I believe that five years will do it.

My question to you, and it is one that I am asking a number of others, is whom you would suggest, by way of a source or sources, to consider supporting such a five-year project. I am thinking along the lines of sources who would have an especial emotional and intellectual rapport with the Wright saga as true history and biography -- not just as another book about an architect for other architects. Could you possibly give this challenge of mine a little thought; I would appreciate it so much. .. .And by the way, my new address -- you should have it: 210 East Pearson Street; Chicago, Illinois; 60611. p^t^ I

William Marlin

Paul R. Hanna Hoover Institution 0?: 43 Fri 3 Mar 82 Page 1 7IMPRINT. OLDS. (&(A^? <^W **ir^v^ 120056

The Making of a Book

bjj. ARNOLD E. OLDS

Paul Hanna uias the first chairman of the Associates. Ever since, he and

his wife Jean have been major contributors to the success of the

organization. For two or three years a small group of Associates

watched for the right occasion to combine an appreciation of Paul and

Jean's contributions with a visit by the Associates to the Frank Lloyd

Wright designed Hanna-Honey comb House. The publishing by the

Architectural History Foundation and the MIT Press of Frank Lloud

Wright's Hanna House; The Clients' Report / written by Paul R. and Jean

S. Hanna/ provided that occasion. On November 7» 1981* members of the

Associates and the Stanford Historical Society gathered at the house

that Paul and Jean had given to the University.*

See page 30 of this issue for a report of the event.

The book tells the story of the planning and building of the Hanna

house. Another interesting story is that of the book itself. An exhibit/

informally titled "The Making of a Book/" was mounted to tell that story

for the assembled Associates and Historical Society members.

The exhibit/ and indeed the book itself/ was made possible by an

amazing archival collection assembled by the Hannas. For a keepsake

prepared for the November seventh event they wrote:

Beginning with our first encounter with Frank Lloyd Wright/ we

saved almost every item that had any bearing on our association 820056 /\ 09:43 Fri 5 Mar 82 Page 2 ' IMPRINT. OLDb

with him and our house. These archives consist of over 50 ring

binders that fill over eight feet of shelf space. In these

binders ue have organized chronologically our exchange of

letters* telegrams, notes/ and telephone calls. We kept copies

of every bill and every subcontract.

We have over a hundred blueprints and drawings prepared by Mr.

Wright and his associated architects. We have more than 200 black

and white and/or color photographs by professional photographers

as well as hundreds of our own in which we recorded almost every

step of the construction.

These archives* covering a period from 1930 to 1981. are

deposited in the Stanford University Library. Microfilms of the

entire collection are available through the Architectural History

Foundation/ New York City/ and the MIT Press/ Cambridge.

To selections from this archive the publishers graciously added the working materials for the preparation of the book: designer's sketches; typescripts marked for typesetting; and dummies/ proofs/ and press sheets/ including one described by Karen Banks of the

Architectural History Foundation as "big as a bedsheet. "

As the day of the exhibit approached/ all of the pieces were assembled and ready for mounting/ with one exception. No finished copies of the book had arrived! Two days before the event/ the Hannas hurried to the Honeycomb House/ where the exhibit was being installed/ with three copies. Their authors' copies had arrived the previous afternoon.

The book was a beautiful tribute to Paul and Jean's years of careful scholarship and enthusiasm.

Arnold E. Olds/ manager of Word Graphics at Stanford/ is a charter

member of the Associates and the designer of Imprint . 820057 EDGAR TAFEL, ARCHITECT

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Things are comm9ng along fine- lectured at the New School the other night with Tom Wolfe- I arranged a batch of slides of the Bauhaus clan, thru modern office buildings and sculpture in public places, and he held forthe with a great session on the mistiqe of European influences here on architecture- like religions and cults- some Britisher asked long questions at the end, saying we were too simplistic, etc etc, and left with a questiin mark I retorted that after all, we are but colonials, and please bear with us- we take everut ong from Europe as gospel! Next lecture is at National Arts Club at end of month, with Anne Baxter interoducing.

Have a misWest trek next week- will stop in at Art nstitute and renww my discussion about the letters I have- its about the only collection, I suppose, that is from Mr weight to an apprentice, both at the time I was there, and after.... also, many of my own copies of metters I wrote, and those of Gene Masseldmk, Mrs Wright, etc. Herb Jacobs, I remember, worked out an arrangement with the Endowment of Humanitie s, wherin he recieved a sum for his collection, and he wrote background along with each of his letters- he had a big wad, including articles he had written over the years.

Went up to t"he Urban Bookstore the other day for a copy of

1 1 your book- and rhey were out . Great guns. Am so pleased.

Taliesin again is up in arms via their att'y about APPRENTICE.... hey have come down from ten to eight supposed infringements, after three years. By this time, Mc Graw Hilll has a new set of lawyers, and we bave tobs art all over again what a trial of nonsense.

Plans for ! :he Wolfe house have changes- they announced anothdr child is on the way, scheduled for Sept 31fet. Thats the modern clockwork for you.

Hope all's wel^- and best to Jean and you..

Always 820058 HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE

Stanford, California 94305

March 9, 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Haight 1725 San Vincente Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90402

Dear Dodie and Bill:

Thank you, Bill, for your letter of March 3. I shall not ever forget the fun of our teamwork in trying to obtain the Frank Lloyd Wright collection at the auction. We are still negotiating with Scott Elliott to purchase the collection, The University of New York at Buffalo has raised $50,500 and Jean and I, together with Stanford, have $45,000. We made an offer of $95,500 by phone this morning. Elliott is considering the offer. We are hopeful.

I understand fully the circumstances of your most generous offer of $5,000 made under the excitement of the auction. It was wonderful of you to have come to our rescue and we did appreciate it.

Jean and I still have no definite date for our visit to the Gamble House. If and when the affair is announced, we will gladly accept your invitation to have dinner with you.

Cop-ehrally,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

PRH:atk THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 94305 820059

March 10, 1982

Kenny Pontius 909 1/2 Illinois Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044

Dear Mr. Pontius:

Your inquiry regarding the Hanna -Honeycomb House records on microfilm has been referred to us as the original documents are to be transferred to the University Archives shortly. Positive copies of the microfilm edition have not yet been distributed. If you are interested solely in the microfilm edition, you may wish to contact Juliann Griffith, Architectural History Foundation, M.I.T., for information regarding the timing of its distribution.

The original documents are at Stanford University, presently in Dr. Hanna's office and soon to be with us. If you have any questions about the collection or about the Hanna-Honeycomb House itself, please let me know.

Sincerely, CfevA*** /GVdi^

Roxanne Nil an University Archivist

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THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Office of the Director

March 11, 1982

Prof. Paul Hanna Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, Calif. 94305

Dear Paul,

Please allow my thanks to be added to the others which you will be receiving for the exquisite medallion from Frank Lloyd Wright's proscenium arch for Louis Sullivan's Garrick Theater in Chicago. The sunburst is a most strikingly effective design and serves to give a third dimension to the remarkable material in the Hanna-Honeycomb House Collection which you have so generously given to Stanford.

Thank God somebody was watching that dumpster, and thank you for guiding this treasure back to Stanford where it can be admired for many generations to come.

Sincerely,

Paul H. Mosher Associate Director for Collection Development

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Cecil H. Green Library Stanford, California 94305 (415) 497-2016 . .

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Insulate existing roof and cover with grass cloth over 1/2' gyp. bd.

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to have these pieces for exhibit. <^ > z There are items in these storage vaults which have little or -n O no value (mattresses, springs, odd pieces, etc.) and could be given 50 o to the Salvation Army. There are other pieces belonging to the Hannas, left at HHH, but no longer desired by the occupants of HHH. z The Hannas could take them off your hands and dispose of them. < There might be a few items that could be of use in furnishing some 33 university building. <

As for the Wright-designed furniture in the cases they: are — o improperly stored: chairs with bare wood piled on top of other chairs, possibly damaging valuable pieces with scratches or dents. o Rather than having to continue to pay for storage, further subjecting the Wright-designed furniture to improper treatment, and in response m to the desires expressed by several eastern museums, it might benefit q all parties to either loan or donate these items to the institutions £ that can use them. 5 C We would be disappointed if the pieces which were designed specifically for HHH were to be separated from the property. To support our point: the Robie House at the University of Chicago ^ and the Martin House at New York University at Buffalo, both z structures and their furnishings by Wright, are currently searching o far and wide and paying fantastic prices to locate and reclaim o furniture which Wright designed for these houses. Unfortunately, c persons at both of these universities responsible for the maintenance - of the houses after the original owners had given their homes to the ™ universities, let these integral furnishings slip away. To restore - these properties to original mint condition is very costly. -< • If Stanford decides to part, temporarily or permanently, with the stored Wright-designed furniture, I can assist in negotiations with nn interested musueums. If Stanford decides to keep the stored pieces, £ we urge that they be repacked with proper protection for storage. m O PRH:atk > z o c 2

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Stanford, California 94305

^ March 22, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse Ms. Julianne Griffin The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021

Dear Victoria and Julianne:

At long last we enclose two copies of the guide to the seven microfilm rolls. We won't bore you with accounts of the numerous delays. Finally, it is in your hands.

Yes, it is considerably longer than we anticipated. But it may contain the kind of detail a scholar might use to shorten his "searching" time.

We are sure there are still errors for our word processor system has no spelling error detection guide as yet. We have read it numerous times, each time only to find more misspellings, wrong document numbers, etc. But we partly calm our anxiety by saying we must get the job done and no index has ever been published without some error. If you find too many errors, or wish other things done, let us know immediately.

We assume you will use a photographic process rather than set it in type and thus avoid introducing new errors. The margins have been set to accomodate photographing. We hope the copy in your hands is "camera-ready.

You may wish to change the title page and perhaps add promotional materials in the forematter. Have we stated the copyright message correctly?

We hope you now have the corrected seven rolls of positive microfilm. We have one corrected copy (positive) and have examined it on the reader, On the whole, we think Eastman has done a good job. We want two more sets of the positives and three copies of the published guide. We will give one microfilm set and guide to Mrs. Wright and one to Stanford University Archives where our originals will be kept. We will keep the one set we have in our "precious documents" at home.

(continued) 820063 A; Ms. Victoria Newhouse Page 2 Ms. Julianne Griffin March 22, 1982

We are planning on spending Easter with Mrs. Wright and the Fellowship at Taliesen West. As we told you, we will send Mrs. Wright and the Foundation a check of one-half of each royalty check you send us. We know that accounting time is not yet, but is it possible for you to give us a rough figure of what our first check may be so we can assure Mrs. Wright that the Foundation will be receiving from us a token of our appreciation of working with Mr. Wright and the Fellowship over the years? If giving us a rough figure is not possible, we will understand.

Randell Makinson talked today by phone to say June 13 seems to be the day the Gamble House will be inviting us and several other authors on Frank Lloyd Wright to be present to talk with Frank Lloyd Wright friends in southern California about our experiences and to autograph books. You may already know all about it.

Jean S. Hanna

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Date: March 25, 1982

To Lynda Weisberg

From Shirley Chen

Subject: Honeycomb House Remodeling (1904)

Dear Lynda:

Enclosed please find a memo from Professor Hanna regarding the Hanna Honeycomb House furniture.

Since this is not a part of the on going remodeling project, I

believe that I should forward this memo and leave the decisions to you.

However, I am looking for the original carpet which is supposed to be much better in quality than the one we are planning to use

for the hobby shop. I would like to get a copy of the inventory list. It may be very possible that the original carpet is in the

storage. And, I do agree with Professor Hanna that if we can sort out the furniture we may save the University some money.

SC/llk

cc: Professor Hanna Bob Nerrie 820065

THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION, INC.

157 East 70 Street, New York, New York 10021, (212) 628-2996

EDITORIAL BOARD George R. Collins Columbia University Henry-Russell Hitchcock Institute of Fine Arts Spiro Kostof University ot California. Berkeley Vincent Scully ««„«, Yale university March 25, 1982 John Summerson

Sir John Soane 's Museum. London

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Hanna The Hoover Institution Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Jean and Paul,

Thank you so much for your letter of March 21 with the long- awaited guide to the microfilm. It is quite an accomplishment! You will be interested to know that we have already received two requests for the microfilm. If there are any changes made in the front matter of the catalogue, we will be sure to let you know.

We have relayed your request for two sets of the microfilm and three sets of the published guide to MIT, and you should be receiving them sometime within the next few weeks.

Your Easter plans sound exciting. Unfortunately, we cannot give you any figures on royalties before June, when the MIT computers spit them out. However, as of today we have sold 2,027 copies of the book.

Thank you for advising me of your talk at the Gamble House on June 13. I wish I could be there to hear you but unfortunately I will be just getting back from a trip to India and Europe at that time. I'm still hoping to see you both on the east coast.

Sincerely,

Victoria Newhouse S

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Stanford, California 94305

March 30, 1982

Mr. Edgar Tafel, Architect 14 East 11th Street New York, NY 10003

Dear Edgar:

I am sorry to hear the discouraging news about the several projects you have worked so hard to carry on But 3 th° Se f US Wh ° ° Uved throuSh the great suffering off ITthe 1930s100A are better able to cope with negatives than those who have lived only during the recent affluent years. Here s hoping the economy will turn around after summer and once again funding will be available for your projects The Johnson script really turned me on. Somehow, that project must be accomplished. Keep up the pressure,

Cordially,

Paul R. Hannah- Senior Research Fellow

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Stanford, California 94305

March 30, 1982

Hugh and Suzanne Johnson 16 Valley Road Princeton, N.J. 08540

Dear Johnsons:

I enclose a xerox copy of a letter I wrote to you January 15, 1982. I have not heard from you so I am assuming the Postal Service has once again failed to deliver.

I would like to know how your project is developing, This project is an exciting one.

Cordially,

il-; .^- t AS7£ Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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EDUCATIONAL SERVICES PROGRAM Stanford University Museum of Art

March 31, 1982

Professor Paul R. and Mrs. Jean Hanna Hoover Institution Stanford University

Dear Professor and Mrs. Hanna,

Thank you for sending us the information about the Garrick Theater medallion. I have shared it with the Hanna House docents.

The hexagonal logo designed by Mr. Wright is being incorpor- ated into a letterhead for stationery and confirmation letters sent to those who have made reservations for tours of the Hanna House. A new map is also being designed, which will be printed on the tour confirmation letter. When the project of design and typesetting is completed, I will send you a copy of the letterhead so you may have an example of the stationery. Again, thank you for permission to use the logo.

During the past three months since the House has been reopened for public tours, about 175 visitors have been on docent tours. Reservations are completely full for tours through the middle of July. There are a few spaces still available for the July 22 tour. No tours will be scheduled during August, due to the Hastorfs 1 vacation plans.

We have given special tours for architectural and art history students from Paul Turner's class, from the Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada, and on Thursday will give tours to 50 architecture students from San Bernardino. We hope to accommodate a group from the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly during Spring Quarter. These tours for architcture students are the most rewarding and enjoyable for docents.

With warmest regards to both of you, \ 0> ^ MARILYN FOGEL P>> Director or Educational Services Director of Hanna-Honeycomb House Tours

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By Phyllis Drake end," said Hanna. "He could accept ideas, Home Writer but he was usually right and we were usually wrong. We just had to change our ) mind set." the whole, it was a joyous expe- The remarkable house of Paul and Jean rience," said Paul R. Hanna, pro- ON Hanna in Palo Alto is also known as the fessor emeritus Stanford Universi- honeycomb house because everthing in the ty, of working with the legendary Frank structure follows the hexagon, the geomet- Lloyd Wright to build the Hannas' very ric shape of a honeycomb cell. first home. "I'm convinced," said Wright in a letter "But, working with genius has it's frus- to the Hannas, "that a cross section of a trations," said Hanna. "Genius is constant- honeycomb has more fertility and flexibili- ly creating ... if you have a good idea ty where human movement is concerned today, you're bound to have a better one than the square ..." So, the couple had to tomorrow. The house was constantly in a learn to live with obtuse angles. There are state of change all during construction." no squares or right angles in all of Hanna The clients and architect argued about House. Everything in the house relates to the size of beds, the width of doors and the 120 degree angle of the hexagon — the bathtubs. "One sees consideration for the shape of a Stop sign. human form in Pullman cars, the Imperial Even the furniture which was, in part, Hotel (which he designed in Tokyo, Japan designed by Wright was planned to fit the in 1915) and my own home," wrote Wright angles. Much of the Wright design was quell a protest about the narrowness to of constructed by Hanna. beds and doorways. "We always followed directions in the Continued on Page 2D

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Wrignt s I~l3nn3 nou.se didn't say no. In 1935, the Hannas came to Stanford to teach and happily discovered that grew with its family they could acquire university land for a house. They contacted Wright. Two years of correspondance (53 volumes of notes and photographs) and 184 Page ID letters, Continued from blueprints later the dream house was a The fireplace was a part of the struc- reality. The couple moved in time to For the most part, the designs were a tural load-bearing design and a Wright celebrate Thanksgiving 1937. huge success. But, the original three- invention. Logs were burned standing legged dining chairs were abandoned vertically in the chimney and cast abun- Although Wright was ill most of the when it became evident that the chairs dant heat into the room. time the house was under construction, made guests uneasy. "It takes a certain he did visit the clients he called "the The couple furnished the house richly knack to sit on a three-legged chair," ideal clients, the first people to live in a of said Hanna. over the years, adding a number hexagon modular home ..." hand-carved vases, chests and tables house was designed from the "His first words were, 'We have de- The which were gathered over 30 years of very beginning to re-shape and grow signed a symphony here.'," said Hanna. trips to the Far East. with the family. It was at the start a "He didn't say anthing else, but went to to the organ played uninterrupted for modest size and designed meet Hanna, a noted authority on interna- the and three growing 15 minutes. was expressing needs of parents with tional education, retired from the about He and additions himself." children. Refinements Stanford faculty in 1967. Paul and Jean later. came donated the house to the university in The children's bedrooms, for in- 1977. Hanna had been asked to take stance, were small and functional, but responsibility for the 82-unit condomini- "Space is the soul of architecture and provided access to a playroom. When um complex built on campus for emer- you can't have home without space any the children left home, this youth area tus professors. Now, the Hannas live in more than you can sit down without became a large master suite and the one of the 1,200-square-foot condos. something to sit on," said Frank Lloyd former master bedroom, a study. They left much of the furniture in the Wright at a press interview in 1958. This house to be enjoyed by prominent guest- To work through the five stages in the was a year before his death. He was 88 faculty members who reside temporari- evolution of the house took 25 years. years old. ly in the home each year. The original design with living room Wright didn't think much of the flurry sweeping into a dining area and then The Hannas have recaptured the joys of 50s housing units and had sharp into the kitchen which stood at the hub and frustrations of building their house words for "thousands of little housing in "Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: communities lined-up picture window to The Client's Report Paul R. and Jean S. picture window." Instead, he spent a Hanna." A big, beautifully illustrated lifetime pursuing a humanistic ap- publication by Architectural History proach to livable space. His ideas were The walls can Foundation and MIT Press, the book powerful, often flamboyant. Not every- sold out it's first printing within two one of his time appreciated his vision. months. Even Professor Hanna is down moved freely While there were 20 Wright private be to his last two copies. residences designed and built in Califor- "client's reports" Although other nia, almost three times that number as the of a as long have been written, the merger were commissioned by Californians and impossible dream with young couple's never constructed. Area homes include: is the affectionate bickering back and hexagon grid Paul and Jean Hanna's house in Palo forth between the genius and his clients Alto Sidney Bazett's in has put a special quality on the Hanna (1936), home Hillsborough Maynard P. Bueh- followed report. (1940), ler's home in Orinda (1948), Mrs. Clinton The story goes back to shortly after Walker's home in Carmel (1948), and the Hannas met — as students at Ham- Arthur C. Matthews' home in Atherton lin University in Minnesota — and mar- (1950). Of course, no list of Wright's area of the house remained ths same, but Neither had ever lived in a perma- ried. work would be complete without men- landscaped areas and a new wing hous- nent family home as they were children guest quarters tioning the magnificent Marin County ing a large workshop and of ministers. Both set great store on one Government Center in San Rafael. enlarged living space until the house day having a home of their own. reached its present 7,500-square-feet of While pursuing advanced degrees at space under roof. Columbia University in the early '30s, "It wasn't difficult to move things the couple read about Frank Lloyd around inside," said Hanna. "Because of Wright's lecture series at Princeton its design, the walls made of wood bat- University. They ordered copies of the tens that could be shifted. The walls series and, on the day they arrived, sat played no part in the structural integri- up all night reading and discussing ty of the house and could be moved Wright's ideas. They were so impressed, freely as long as the hexagon grid was they wrote the great man a fan letter followed." the next day.

The house sits on a hill site along Much to their surprise Wright replied Frenchman's Road on the Stanford to the letter, casually inviting them to campus. The native materials — red- visit him at Taliesin, Wisconsin any wood exterior and board and batten time they happened to be in the area. inside and brick fireplace — enhance "Pretty heady stuff for a couple of the rustic feeling of a very modern kids," said Hanna of the remembered design. thrill. 820075

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a medallion conceived by louis h, sullivan and detailed by frank lloyd wright (1868-1959) while young Wright worked for Sullivan (1856-1924), An integral ornament from the proscenium arch of the Garrick Theater in the Shiller Building (1892) in Chicago. This example shows refinement of ornament "of the thing, not on it" as opposed to the mere applied decoration of that period, When the Shiller building was demolished in 196L the World Book Encyclopedia management acquired an arch, divided it into separate squares, and presented several to the Paul R. Hannas, 820078 Hugh and Suzanne Johnston

16 Valley Road Princeton NJ 08540 (609) 924-7505

^pril 3, 1982

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution Stanford, California 94305

Dear Mr* Hanna:

Thank you for your kind letter of January 15 and your reminder of March 30 which came today*

We appreciated your encouraging and positive response to our outline of concepts for the film. We are proposing to produce a comprehensive and much-needed motion picture on Frank Lloyd Wright and his work for the general public and for educational uses* The special ingredients of this project will be provided by the participation of those who knew Mr. Wright. The principals are Anne Baxter, Edgar Tafel and Eric Lloyd Wright, and it is imperative to get into production before we lose any such historical material about Wright to the forces of time.

As to developments since January, we are and have been in the process of trying to raise the necessary financial support for the production, seeking $25,000 for the initial research, interviews, location surveys and script writing, and $125,000 for the subsequent cinematography, editing, music and technical costs of the production.

Edgar Tafel is taking the lead energetically, contacting various friends and supporters, finding enthusiasm and interest but not as yet the necessary funds. The first $25,000 would enable us to get this project substantially launched and take us well on our way, and in this regard, we would welcome any thoughts, suggestions and leads you might give to Edgar and ourselves.

We have heard about your book, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House :

The Client ' s Report , and it interests us greatly because Mr. Wright's relationship to clients is an important part of ,

- 2 - 820078 4- the story which we will be taking into account.

I am enclosing for your information a review of a book, Writings on Wright which is also published by MIT and which you probably know about. The review, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, backs up our and Edgar's instinct that certain essential truths about Mr. Wright are still to be fully understood by the lay public and by professionals. And also, there would be much interest in a new and really authentic film about the "Taliesin Master."

Again our thanks for your interest in our film project. We will be grateful for your continuing interest and for your suggestions.

Hugh joins me in sending our best wishes and regards.

Sincerely

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veniences built into it is more pleasant overeating at mealtimes. Tactics such and useful. as overcrowding the stomach with #3 years Aoc cookies, bread and jelly or bread and in Journal Curiosity Killed the Hat. In 1907, sugar bring ruination to the child and the the Journal captured the spirit of April premature old age to the adult. The Fool's Day with this ironic —and amus- injury comes largely from distending Spring has sprung, buds are on the ing — tale. the stomach and robbing it of its nor- bough, tennis courts are full again The young wife watched her hus- mal shape and chemical action. and lemonade's a favorite— it's band carefully fold a piece of paper April! In 1907, as now, Ladies' Home and put it in the further corner of a Taking a Hint. Journal readers of 75 Journal helped women get into the drawer in the library table, and the years ago regularly contributed advice springtime swing by filling its pages fact that he seemed ill at ease aroused and handy hints for the housekeeper. with lively, informative features. Here her curiosity. Some of their tips are still surprisingly are some highlights for you to enjoy. "What's that, dear?" she asked. appropriate. "Oh nothing," he replied, trying • To remember what you have The House that Frank Built. Sev- hard not to smile. planted in the garden, write the name enty-five years ago the Journal pub- Still she wondered what it was, and of the flower or vegetable on a slip of lished architectural plans for a "$5,000 she reasoned with herself that as he paper, place the slip in a small bottle Fireproof House" designed by Frank had said it was nothing of importance and put the bottle half-way into the

Lloyd Wright. Revolutionary in its con- she would look at it, and she did so at soil; then if you forget what was struction, this house was made of con- the first possible opportunity. This is planted, a glance at the slip will show crete rather than wood, as described by what she found scribbled on the piece you. Wright himself: of paper: • To get dust out of crevices when Changing industrial conditions have "I'll bet you a new spring hat your cleaning house, try using a paintbrush brought reinforced concrete within the curiosity will not permit you to leave of good size. A hidden store of dirt will reach of the average homemaker. Insu- this alone." reward your efforts, for a cloth cannot lated with an impervious inner coat- How could she claim the new hat reach all the corners. ing, it is warmer than a wooden house without giving herself away? • To clean hardwood floors without in winter and cooler in summer. No tiring the back, buy a common black- attic, no pantry, no back stairway have Eaters Digest. Snacking was a com- board eraser and fasten it firmly to an been planned; they would be un- mon dietary habit even in 1907. If it's old broom handle. If dipped into a lit- necessarily cumbersome in this one you have trouble breaking, con- tle oil, it will take up all the lint and scheme, which is trimmed to the last sider these words of caution from the dust, and polish the floor at the same ounce of the superfluous. The open Journal. time. —Sasha Anawalt file: Marl in cross-file: FLLW HOOVER INSTITUTION 0082 ON WAR. REVOLUTION AND PEACE

Stanford. California 94305

April 7, 19S2

Mr. William Marlin, Editor INLAND ARCHITECT ?. O. Box 10394 Chicago, IL 60610

Dear Bill:

I have been reading carefully the first 231 pages of Three Centuries of Notable American Architects, and am moved to tell you my reactions once again and in more detail.

This is a useful book which should have a ong life. 1 he selection of men seems excellent to me, a layman

But what I have to say to you is simply this: Your essay on

Frank Lloyd Wright is by far the best of the chapters I have read in depth. Yours is not just an improvement over the nine preceeding chapters. Your essay is a change in kind, no: just in degree.

Your selection and organization of material is masterful. You had space limits imposed on you. Out of a vast literature on Frank Lloyd Wright you have chosen to present a balanced abridgement. Another author might have substituted other episodes for some you chose, but the whole of your essay gives a clear picture of the man, his genius, and his human qualities. The projects you use to illustrate his organic principles are satisfying.

I am sure others have or will compare favorably with your efforts to choose the threads for a tapestry revealing the man and his work. 820082 Ar

William Marlin Page 2 Aoril 7, 19S2

But what makes your chapter different in kind is in the writing. The manner in which you enrich each thought with literary allusions and color-laden words renders your essay exciting and educative reading. There is more pleasure and enrichment to be found in one of your paragraphs than I find in most writing today.

One could illustrate the point from every page in your chapter. I choose only one. .from page 211, the last paragraph:

"For the next seven years leading up to the turn of the century— from his twenty-sixth to his thirty- third year— Wright would struggle to gather together the strands of his own identity and idiom. This crucial period has been glossed over by many observers as a stylistically unkempt time during which Wright tried on everything at least once - Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Tudor, even something he called Hans Christian Anderson..."

Such a paragraph is brilliant in summing up a critical period in Wright's life. Each word and phrase is carefully chiselled and the sentence meaningfully packed with condensed information.

One could only wish that authors generally possessed the

skills to write with equal effectiveness. I shall now finish reading the remaining seven essays of this great book, possessing a standard with which to judge.

Gratefully,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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820083 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF FINE ART/ GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART TORONTO. CANADA M5S 1A1

April 8th, 1982

Dr„ Paul R. Hanna Hoover Institution Stanford, Calif. 94305 Dear Paul Many thanks for your kind letter which I have delayed answering because Roger Conover had promised to send me a copy of your book, but month after month it never arrived. I was about to write to you and accept your offer, but at last the book has arrived (the first copy of it that I have seen) and it is truly handsome; I look forward to readint it at long last.

Randy Makinson phoned from Pasadena this afternoon asking whether I could be in California May 2nd for the Wright-authors get- together at the Gamble House, but at that time I shall be in New England on my way home from the Society of Architectural Historians meeting where I must give a paper, I'll be sorry to miss you.

Sincerely yours

H. Allen Brooks Professor

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MEMORANDUM April 9, 1982

lO: Tom Heinz

Wil 1 iam Marl in

FROM: Paul and Jean Hanna^

SUBJECT: DRAFT OF ARTICLE FOR ON

We have told both Tom and Bill we possess material on FLLW not used by our editors in publishing the volume on the Hanna House. Of the thirteen chapters we submitted (550 typed pages), only seven were used (two chapters were condensed into the appendix) and the total manuscript reduced to 148 pages of printed text and illustrations. There were sound reasons for the reduction, but that does leave considerable text that might be salvaged.

We offer you a sample herewith - Furnishing Our Frank Lloyd Wright House - which was submitted to our editors as a chapter and they reduced it to 3h pages of printed text.

Some of the same text appears in both the book and in the attached. But much of what we wrote was not printed and may be of interest to your readers. We are unable to judge whether readers are interested in the details of why and how we selected our furnishings as we did. With editing, our submission might appeal, or we may present "far & more detail than anyone cares to know," as one McGraw Hill executive told us earlier.

We submit the enclosed draft (with some rearrangement of paragraphs of the original manuscript) for your reaction:

1. Is there a possible audience for this material?

2. How might it be modified to make it an acceptable article?

3. In which journal might it be published?

One comment we are moved to make about this draft - it seems to lack the high quality of writing which we would like to achieve. It seems dull and pedestrian. With help we may put more life into our writing.

After Tom and Bill have conferred on these matters, we might all engage in a conference phone call.

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Many thanks for copying me on the Johnsons letter- we talked yesterday- there seems to be action abrewing for the financing of the film, but I dont hold my breath easily on any .<>. times are rough in most XW cultural departments o o .. o o glad you were at T-West. I th nk skipping a year or two for me helps . . . had a nice note from Bruce, had sent him some slides.

The State College at Geneseo, where I did master planning and several buildings, want to name a library after me, and I'm not dead! )[ they are not allowed to name buildings after live persons „..) and of course, they wish to store memorabilia of FLLW there, and I would be in line to forward what I have ...<, people f always say "tax writeof ". „ „ .as if theres much to write off

Just back from Jamaica- lectured at the university there- to both architects and students, and they were feeceptive. „ ir was a grand evening „ NeKt trek- Sweden and Finland- end of May, two lectures, and seeing the buildings their masters built- if you are a fine architect there they give you work= and porr Mr W, never got a real public federal job,,

Best to jean, et tu< . edgar

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Stanford. California 94305 820086

April 9, 1982

Ms. Victoria Newhouse The Architectural History Foundation, Inc. 157 East 70th Street New York NY 10021

Dear Victoria:

We think you should have a copy of this San Jose Mercury story on the book.

Will you share this with MIT Press, please.

Jean and I leave to spend the Easter Holidays with Mrs. Wright.

Hope you have a sunny weekend.

CordiaT-fy

T?Gy- Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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Stanford. California 94305 820087

April 9, 1982

Ms. P. Drake SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS 750 Ridder Park Drive San Jose, CA 95190

Dear Ms. Drake:

The envelope containing copies of your story, together with photos, arrived. Thank you very much.

I have sent the news story to MIT Press and am taking one

copy tomorrow to Scottsdale where my wife and I will spend the

weekend at Taliesen West. When I return I will send the other copies of the story to select people. It is an excellent piece and we are grateful to you.

The photos are excellent. Please thank our friend the photographer for them.

raul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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M E ?•'. R A N D U M April 9, 1982

TO: Tom Heinz

Wil 1 iam Marl in /H

FROM: Paul and Jean Hanna_ C , j

SUBJECT: DRAFT OF ARTICLE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

We offer you a sample herewith - Furnishing Our Frank Lloyd Wright House - which was submitted to our editors as a chapter and they reduced it to 3h pages of printed text.

Some of the same text appears in both the book and in the attached. But much of what we wrote was not printed and may be of interest to your readers. We are unable to judge whether readers are interested in the details of why and how we selected our furnishings as we did. With editing, our submission might appeal, or we may present "far more detail than anyone cares to know," as one McGraw Hill executive told us earlier.

We submit the enclosed draft (with some rearrangement of paragraphs of the original manuscript) for your reaction:

1. Is there a possible audience for this material?

2. How might it be modified to make it an acceptable article?

3. In which journal might it be published?

After Tom and Bill have conferred on these matters, we might all engage in a conference phone call.

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FURNISHING OUR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE

Paul R. and Jean S. Hanna

Frank Lloyd Wright believed that a house which he designed should reflect in its furniture and furnishing the major theme he used in planning each particular dwelling.

This concept of unity and reinforcement between a building and its furnishings is uniquely reflected in our Hanna -Honeycomb House (1936), located on the Stanford University campus. In this residence, for the first time, Mr. Wright designed and built with the hexagonal grid system as the underlying geometric theme. The concrete floor mat, both indoors and out, consists of a grid of hexagon tiles forming a pattern similar to a cross-section of the bees' noneycomb. (Drawing of floor plan).

Correspondence in our archives shows that soon after the original hexagonal grid floor plan had been refined by Mr. Wright and accepted by us, he began to submit designs for furniture to be built during house construction as a permanent part of the dwelling. We approved detailed drawings for bookcases and shelves for every room; counters for kitchen, library, and living room; couches for living room, library, and playroom; fireside seating; beds; storage closets and cupboards for dishes, glassware, and children's toys; a dining table for one end of living room; decks for lighting fixtures and for display spaces for art objects; wardrobes with shelving in all bedrooms; sound chambers for organ and stereo music; and alcoves and niches for displaying sculpture. (Photo or drawings of such built-ins)

Examination of the drawings or photographs of the furniture will demonstrate the use Mr. Wright made of the hexagon he employed in the grid system. The built-in furniture had the same obtuse 120 degree angles of the floor tiles from wnich it rose. We found that the absence of sharp 90 degree corners left us without bruises and permitted traffic to flow more smoothly. In addition, the visual impressions of harmony of the obtuse angles of the tiles of the hexagonal floor grid and the built-ins -was pleasing to us.

As construction of the building progressed, Mr. Wright answered our calls for designs of the moveable furniture: dining chairs, easy chairs, ottomans, floor cushions, side tables, etc. We were pleased to note that these moveable pieces reflected the basic grammar of the hexagon grid system. :

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rhis nay :e a good place at wr.icr. to say screening accm our response to Wrigr.t-designed furniture. Zr.ers is no cuescicr. mat the furniture Mr. Wright cesigr.ee was appropriate for our particular house for which it was ccr.ceivec . Tr.e Hamas are enthusiastic with what Mr. Wright did for tree:. What did Mr. Wright think accut his

furniture? He was cisacccintec . He was forever trying t: get us to discard the two cig reading chairs. In cne occasion, when visiting us, he sale, "I nave been in this cusiress [ architecture) sixty years arc 1 still can't cesigr. a piece of furniture. 1 don't

understand cry prctler. . 1 suppose Z think too rrucr m terns of a !" building and I wind jzz with that —poking with his cane tr.e sice of one of our easy or. airs. In one cc easier, he wrote tr.at he was black ir.: clue frero sitting en his ewn furniture.

" After we remodeled tr.e roam house in 957 , we asked Mr. Wright to cesign scree low chairs for our living rocre. chairs suitable for short-legged people. We suggested that he notify the round chair he had designed for his sen David's bouse; use tr.e hexagon geometry merer than tr.e circle. And he eie. We think tr.e hand scree cae.-c, and the shape of tr.e seat and sloping anns, all aesthetically

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While no rule existed that eacb piece zust eer.f cm t: tr.e '23 degree angle, the hexagonal concept die perrreate the furnishings. 7r.e Klearflax carpeting was designed by Mr. Wright tc show care concrete nexagens or half-hexagon tile between tr.e wal.s ar.c tr.e eege of tr.e original golden rod colored carpet. 51-e triangles z: the carpet were inserted to accent sc-eclflc stations such as scaee in front cf

~~the living poors fireplace. ^ Carpet plan by Fli-W,~~

Ire hexagon-shaped and pivoting metal grate for the living re-ore fireplace is a sculptured work of art anc very functional. Zr.e day in the autumn cf 1937 wr.er we first occupied tr.e partially completed house, a violent storre disrupted em electrical zz^-r. With r.c electrical heat or light, we built a fire ir. tr.e living room fire

~~e _ a c e anc e a r b e c u ee c u n steaks r. eatec our ere oa , an: teastee our 820089 C bread on the swinging grate. (Drawing or photo of the fireplace grate. )~~

In niches, alcoves, and on the decks of our home, we displayed sculptured pieces which Mr. Wright produced or which had a Wright connection. In 1936 Mr. Wright gave us a pair of terra-cotta sculptures - the Indian Chief, Nakoma^ glazed in black and seventeen inches tall, and his squaw, Nakomis, glazed in red and twelve inches tall. This Indian pair were the models Mr. Wright created for the gate of a Wisconsin country golf course. The larger-than-life size figures were never cast in bronze. This pair of miniature figures stood on a deck of our home where they caught clerestory daylight and deck light at night. Unfortunately, Nakomis was broken in an earthquake, the only artifact ever destroyed by a tremor during the forty years we lived in Hanna-Honeycomb. Years later, when the small pair of Indian models were cast in bronze, we purchased them and they, together with the black ceramic Chief, remind us that Mr. Wright worked in sculpture as well as in music, prose, and architecture. (Photo)

When Mr. Wright, as a young draftsman joined the firm of Adler and Sullivan in Chicago, the Garrick Theater was under construction (1892). There is evidence that one of Mr. Wright's early assignments was that of completing Sullivan's design of a sunburst motif for the great proscenium arch of the theater. In 19ol, the theater was torn down, and our friend, Mr. Bailey Howard, President of the World Book Publishing Company, bought the proscenium arch from the demolition company. He had the arch cut into squares, each containing a sunburst motif, fastened onto a plywood backing. He gave these gilded plaster-of-Paris squares, each 27-1/2 x 27-1/2 inches, to the art departments of colleges and universities throughout the nation. Hannas were given three of these medallions. We donated one to the Art Department of Stanford University. We kept the other two, one of which hangs on a wall of Hanna-Honeycomb, and the third on the wall over the fireplace in our condominium. (Photo)

The theme of the hexagon at various times inspired us to design other furnishings for our home. For instance, we visited a famous glass factory in Venice and ordered twelve place settings each of four pieces of glassware for our dining table at Ha nna -Honeycomb House. The glass salad plates, water glasses, wine glasses, and dessert dishes were all of a deep ruby color and all shaped by the hexagon. (Picture of red glass tableware in hexagonal pattern).

In Hongkong, we commissioned George Zee to make us a teak hexagonal coffee table and six equilateral triangle stools to fit under the table. When the six triangle stools were removed from under the table and fitted together, they were intended to form a smaller hexagonal table. Or the stools could be used singly as six seats 820€8P D around the coffee table. Much to our dismay, when the sea freight arrived and was unpacked, we found six isosceles rather than equilateral stools! These stools work well as seats, but when assembled to form a table top, they do not complete a hexagon. (Photo of hexagon table and stools)

We also had Philippine craftsmen weave us twenty-four hexagon, fiber- filled mats for spreading on the terrace or lawn or on the interior floor for party guests to sit on. These twenty-inch diameter mats were brought out of storage when we entertained more guests than could be accommodated on chairs or couches or on brick garden walls. These mats complemented the hexagonal grid. (Photos)

From Taipai and Hongkong we brought back Chinese hexagon ceramic garden seats, red lacquer hexagon vases to be converted into table lamps, and slender Chinese hexagon ceramic lamps, with interior electric bulbs. (Photos)

~~In Europe we found such items as hexagon-shaped silver bowls, hexagonal -shaped ceramic ash trays for our friends who must smoke, hexagonal flower pots, and vases with silver inlaid designs. (Photos)~~

In Tokyo we appreciated Japanese stone snow lanterns with their hexagonal hats. We commissioned a stone cutter to make us six lanterns for our Wright-designed residence and an additional six smaller ones for the Wrights and certain Taliesin Fellows who had worked with us on the house. These larger lanterns at Hanna- Honeycomb House are wired for lighting the gardens at night. (Photo)

We think one of the most exciting sculptured pieces by Mr. Wright stands in the garden of Hanna -Honeycomb House. The two-ton stone urn was designed by him for the Imperial Hotel of Tokyo. Paul was staying at the Imperial Hotel when wreckers swung the metal ball to commence its demolition. Paul asked our owner friends, the Inumarus, if we might obtain one of Mr. Wright's sculptured stone pieces from the hotel to take home to Stanford. The owners graciously gave us one of the stone urns from the porte cochere. It cost us a small fortune to get the heavy urn down from high on the facade, wrapped and crated for sea shipment. The large wooden crate finally arrived in San Francisco and Stanford trucked the piece to our lot. A crane hoisted the uncrated urn onto a cement pedestal Paul had constructed on a garden site selected by Deans Robert Sears and Virgil Whitaker. The urn is lighted with floods at night.

In shipping, some damage was suffered by the over-arching stonework of the urn. The surface of the Oya-lava stone is not very stable and we are concerned about its preservation as the weather continues to attack the porus surface. But the urn reminds that Mr. Wright valued the arts of the Japanese culture. (Photo) 820089 £ We chose to be surrounded by three-dimentional art objects rather than paintings hung on the walls. We preferred to view the beautiful California landscape by looking through our plate glass walls. Tne major exception to this choice was a canvass painted by our colleague, Professor Daniel Mendelowitz. When the spring rains of 1933 germinated years of accumulated seeds of yellow mustard in the recently disturbed soil of the western slope of the property, Professor Mendelowitz painted a lovely landscape with the new house in the background of a field of mustard blossoms. This artwork came with us in 1977 when we gave our house to Stanford and moved to a condominium. Someday this canvass may again hang in the house of which it was painted. (Photo of painting)

~~Mr. Wright often said, "Give me the luxuries and I'll get along without the necessities." We also indulged in the luxuries - art pieces, textiles, books and, of course, music.~~

Mr. Wright designed Hanna -Honeycomb with music as a priority. A pianist and organist himself, he was siropatico with our cherished hope to own, someday, an organ. Mr. Wright, always thinking big, thought pipe organ. Although we preferred a pipe organ, there were two negatives: orginal cost and upKeep. In spite of our" reservations, we approved of Mr. Wright's planning for banks of organ pipes and sound chambers. We put off the acquisition decision for a number of years and made-do with our upright Baldwin piano.

Finally, came the day when we felt we had to have an organ, even a small one. Jean was studying organ with Professor Warren Allen, University organist, and needed an instrument for practice. Paul is passionately fond of organ music, and, as he proclaims, is among the world's best listeners. We started with a Wurlitzer reed organ, two manual, electrified. That organ had a fine tone, but the reeds needed periodic attention. Next we experimented with an all- electric organ and installed a Baldwin. We enjoyed that for a few years, but were constantly comparing its tone with that of a pipe organ, and found it disappointing. The Baldwin and Hammond organs of that day were good for jazz, but the Hannas were not in tune with that type of music.

Our dissatisfaction led us to make a study of five different electric organs. The result of our research was an introduction to the Saville organ, manufactured to order in Illinois. We visited the factory and studied the specifications; talked with the men in research and in charge of construction; listened to several of their instruments in the Chicago area churches; and decided that we had found what we wanted. We ordered the model and the voicing we preferred. Several months passed in the construction of the organ. The designers came to Stanford and studied the acoustics of the Hanna -Honeycomb House and determined the amplification necessary. The lofts Mr. Wright had provided for organ pipes proved ideal for 820089 *F the installation of equipment and of speakers. We wound up with 120 twelve-inch speakers located in chambers throughout the house. One of the satisfying things about the Saville is the presence of the "lag," not as great as in a pipe organ, but, nevertheless, the lag is there. With other electric organs we tried, there was little or no lag. (Photo)

As we said earlier, one new piece of furniture is likely to invite or require another. Somehow our Baldwin upright piano was no match for the Saville organ. So we purchased a Mason Hamlin grand piano. This combination of instruments was most felicitous and provided many hours of pleasure and satisfaction for the family and our musical friends.

~~In 1969 a graduate student asked us for a written comment on Frank Lloyd Wright and his interests and accomplishments in music and poetry. In part we replied:~~

~~We are delighted that you are doing independent research on Frank Lloyd Wright and his interests and accomplishments in music and poetry.~~

~~We particularly call your attention to his autobiography which clearly indicates the profound effect which music and poetry had on his childhood. He was introduced early to these two art forms.~~

Throughout Mr. Wright's life he continued his deep interest in music and poetry. On his regular visits to our home, he never missed an opportunity to sit at the organ or the grand piano and improvise. He expressed himself beautifully in this art form.

~~We have sat by the hour while he recited from memory some of the world's great literature. There is no doubt in our minds that both music and poetry were reflected in his architectural creations.~~

~~Artifacts in Honeycomb House~~

People frequently ask us where and how we obtained certain artifacts for our home. Like thousands of travelers, we are collectors and our home reflects our journeys. We collect, not just for the sake of collecting, but because we see something we think we can't live without, and have spent hours and days acquiring specific items which pleased us. . . ,

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~~Briefly, here is a resume of some of those items friends enquire about:~~

Large Indian bowl on deck of the living room entry. In 1936 we spent three weeks living in Zuni, the Indian Pueblo in New Mexico. While there, an ancient Zuni woman "coiled" this handsome pot and fired it in her primitive cow-chips oven. This bowl was an expression of friendship. We shall not forget either her or her bowl.

Pottery from Spain. We visited a famous potter in Spain. We decided to take, home some of this expert potter's work. Among other items we brought to Honeycomb, were three large garden vases (24 to 36 inches high) and large pitchers and plates

~~Chess Sets Our principal hobby was collecting antique ivory~~

chess sets. We started to collect in 1 9^0 and spent many memorable hours in secondnand shops, in antique dealers' galleries, and in chess clubs searching for unusual old sets. We started collecting before chess sets became a popular collectible. Our collection became too large for display, particularly when we gave Honeycomb House to Stanford and moved, in 1976, into a condominium on campus. We meditated at length before we parted with them. We gave 50 sets to the Hoover Institution. Eventually, the collection was purchased by Amos Smith of Manchester, England, to add to his large and important collection. We visited the Smiths in 1978 and were delighted to note how happily our sets were mingling with the Smiths' magnificent collection of 500 sets, beautifully displayed in glass cases designed for his collection. (Pnoto)

Bronze Sculp t ures. While Paul was in Germany with 0MGUS during the United States occupation, we became acquainted with a number of German artists. Among them were sculptors Georg Kolbe and Hans Haffenrichter. They had been persecuted by the Nazis (some of their work wantonly destroyed). We tried to help them. Before we returned to Stanford in 19^7, both men allowed us to obtain castings of their work. Both artists used the sane caster and he held the models for most of their work. The problem was the caster's location. He lived and worked in the Russian sector of Berlin. However, we were able to visit Mr. Noak in his home and foundry. He agreed to cast our choices: Kolbe 's Adagio and Elegie and Haffenrichter 's Eurydice. (Photos)

Noak and his craftsmen were virtual prisoners of the Russians. The foundry was busy remaking sculptured figures, "liberated" by the Russians from Berlin city parks and museums. Sculptures of Hind en burg, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler

~~8 820C89 ft and other leading German figures had their heads removed and replaced with Stalin, Marx, and Engels heads, epaulets, caps, etc. These bronzes were then shipped to the Soviet Union.~~

We understood that if Noak were to cast the three bronzes for us, he would, at considerable personal risk, have to "liberate" the necessary metal from the huge stock pile of statues dumped in his interior courtyard. How he managed this and how he was able to ship our finished bronzes safely to Stanford, we may never know.

The three bronzes graced our home for years. In 1965 we gave these statues to the Stanford Museum of Art, with an agreement that they would be loaned for display in Honeycomb House. Hundreds of visitors to our home enjoyed viewing these pieces. Beautiful Adagio by Kolbe stood on the library fireplace hob. Above her, on the chimney, hung an exquisite Balinese carving. Haff en ri enter's Eurydice stood by the living room fireplace.

Our experience with these German sculptors led us to study the work of the great Yugoslav sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, Rodin's favorite pupil. Again, a fortunate circumstance: Paul was invited by the United States State Department to head a consultation team to Yugoslavia in 1966. While there, we learned all we could about Mestrovic. We visited Split, Zagreb, and Belgrade to study his work. We were able to meet some of the living sculptors in Yugoslavia, and view their work in their studios. We visited with Antun Augustincic whose massive representation of Tito occupies a place of prominence at Kumrovec.

One of Mestrovic's pupils, Peter Palavacini, produced bronze pieces which we liked. Palavacini was dead, but we met his son who took us to his father's private studio. Tnere we saw several pieces we admired, and purchased three to ship home:

~~The Family, The Woman with a Bowl, and Diana . (Photos)~~

One of the members of our mission to Yugoslavia, Dr. Fred Rossini, the Vice-President of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, was acquainted with his neighbor in South Bend, Mrs. Olga Mestrovic, the widow of the sculptor. On our return to the United States, we visited the Rossinis and they took us to meet Mrs. Mestrovic. She was a most gracious hostess. She showed us the sculptures and carvings of her husband — two floors and a basement full of beautiful pieces.

~~We decided that we simply had to have sculpture by Mestrovic. Through frequent visits and exchanges of correspondence with~~

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~~Mrs. Mestrovic, we were able to purchase or have castings 820089 I made of the following pieces: Moses, Odysseus, and Prometheus Bound.~~

The first two pieces we displayed in Honeycomb House for several years. Our undergraduate Alma Mater was starting a modern European collection of bronzes and we gave two (Odysseus and Moses to Hamline University. Prometheus Bound is in our present condominium living room. (Photos)

In 1977, we found Marko on Sarac by Mestrovic in a San Francisco gallery and purchased this powerful piece. Then in 1978, Mrs. Mestrovic was willing to sell us her favorite bronze, Job. Marko and Job are our most cherished art pieces, looked at daily for inspiration and repose. Job crouches on a coffee table in the center of our living room, just as he did in the Mestrovic home, imploring heaven to pity him and to release him from his oppressive woes. (Photos)

~~Stone Buddah Head L Paul found a stone Buddah head in Thailand. It rests in the foyer of Honeycomb on a stand designed by Paul. Probably this 3uddah head originated in Cambodia. (Photo)~~

Lighting. Tnroughout the house, most night lighting is provided by flood lamps in the decks or ceiling lights behind Czechoslovakian glass covered recessed metal boxes with 120 degree angled wooden frames. At locations where reading light must supplement deck or recessed ceiling light, floor or end-table lamps were used.

LiDrary Furnishings^ The library provides areas for reading, desk work, chatting, eating, or viewing the fireplace or the gardens. Two Swan chairs from Denmark offer seating for viewing the garden pool and cascade or for reading. Two Egg chairs, also from Denmark, together with the cushioned couch and a large Wright-designed easy chair, form a semi-circle for conversation by the fire or for TV viewing. TV tables can be set up by the fireplace for a light meal for two. (Photo)

3ookmark and Branding Iron. Mr. Wright provided us with a design of a bookmark or monogram for identification. We had our embossing stamp made and impressed this hexagon design into our books and important papers. We had the same design fashioned into a branding iron and, when heated, we burned the design into wood and leather objects. (Reproduce design)

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Garden Furniture^ In addition to the usual garden furniture, tables with sun umbrellas and lounging chairs, we bought 30 aluminum stacking chairs for use at our sit-down affairs. During the rainy season, these chairs and other garden furniture were moved inside the garden house or stacked in the storage room. The outdoor redwood tables were made in our hobby shop. (Photos)

We acquired a ton of ceramic tiles from an abandoned tile factory in San Jose. Among the collection were hundreds of black and of white two-inch square tiles. We made ten chess tables out of these tiles. Each table consisted of a square metal frame with heavy reinforcing wire-mesh welded inside the frame. We poured concrete in the frame to form a solid table, then set 64 small tiles into the fresh concrete. On the underside of this table we set a pipe flange. Into this flange we screwed a 28 inch long, 3/4 inch water pipe to serve as a leg for the table. These one-legged tables were screwed into recessed cups embedded in the concrete terrace. We thought we might generate some enthusiasm for the game among our friends if we provided chess tables in the garden terrace. (Photo)

We are not fanciers of "lap" meals. We prefer to eat sitting at a table. The chess tables suggested an idea for accomodating large numbers at a sit-down barbeque. We made ten-foot long tables, twenty inches wide, out of 1/2 inch marine plywood. Each table, fitted with guides on the underside, rests firmly over two of the chess tables. Each table provides settings for twelve persons. We never did succeed in generating chess tournaments, but the five plywood banquet tables resting on the chess tables were eminently successful and added a colorful touch to the garden when set for a party.

~~Collectibles in General. Like most travelers, we accumulated our share of collectibles:~~

~~.Woolen textiles from the high Andes. Paul purchased and carried out on his back over twenty-five ceremonial ponchos and over fifty pieces of handwoven belts, caps, shawls, blankets, grain sacks, etc.~~

~~.Cotton and wool textiles from Guatemala and India~~

~~.Silverware from Indonesia and Turkey~~

~~.Table linens from China, France, and Yugoslavia~~

~~.Silk cloth from Thailand, India, and Japan~~

11 •Wood carvings from Indonesia™onesia, af- 820089 K and Africa, Japan, Germany Philippines> •Sculpture from Africa, ^ope,Eu-one rw , China, and Thailand •Teak and camphor chests 3 nH t and UqUOr the Philippe/' ^ «bineta from Hong Kong •Ivory from Hong Kong, Japan, ana" Africa

T * e are no di ffpppni-x - rent m< n our f^end*a d u collecting hshi^ * We a <~ e fortunate POB ° Ur Hannai;: n ? ^ that M~ Jri%*l Sector -honeycomb in pr ° Vlded ide which to place our trf ^ spaces in that we 1 o? ^^1^^ coS d look a th^T-/* ^P ^ the.

~~In furnishing our home, ' we have kept„„ principles to ." »ind certain guide us tn ^J?* basio and fishings. USi He beii evet r S tS' ""' " S fu ™"u re •Permit efficient housekeeping~~

~~• Accomodate harDO, ious ^ comfortabie ^^~~

~~•Contain books and plants •Provide work stations that hat are,r, ^let and senses restful to the~~

•Indoors, bathe the eves with harm through the glass °nious c ^r; vails" please "he of hills, trees, *** the beaut clouds s Unn moon 2^ ^ ' ' ^n stars, ' and storm •Soothe the ears with sound tusIo „ yet soft, V ° 1C6 that is free f r0m distortionaistor.ion ' clea - or unwanted echoes

~~• Immerse the body and the spirit in sense of well-being 3 warn and comfortable~~

Our fîpnds m <* «» house. ^-î.^^rroi^r-furniture °° l "Patl l>lllty and of M- art obiects t„ the varietv o- Wright's designs 'bf *" mt d ™ and ^* Chairs Llu/eo "ST*. 'only and easy chairs, that the Dan"" tables and tte Chi ^ dlnin^ and ceramic CheStS scr pieces are ""V* ' "n- «-« uite at ht •» degree angies. îîâêsIS 12 820089 U hang on brick walls. In the foyer, the 1789 grandfather clock stands sedately against the tall brick wall. This prized family heirloom was absorbed, along with pieces from varied times and places, as an integral part of the family living environment.

We conclude this story on furnishing our home by repeating our basic theory: one is never finished with furniture and furnishing. Some textiles fade, furniture wears out, or more pleasing pieces become available. New technical advances produce better lighting, heating, plumbing, acoustics, or housekeeping conveniences. So the furnishings change.

But not all is change! Many possessions are ageless and nothing should render them obsolete or valueless. The basic design of the Hanna-Honeycomb House and the Wright-designed furnishings are priceless. Nothing should be done to destroy the harmony and unity of the organic design Mr. Wright created in this house.

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~~MEMORANDUM April 9, 1982~~

~~TO: Tom Heinz Willi am Marl in /O~~

~~{jJA FROM: Paul and Jean Hanna [ /~~

~~SUBJECT: DRAFT OF ARTICLE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION~~

~~We offer you a sample herewith - Furnishing Our Frank Lloyd Wright House - which was submitted to our editors as a chapter and they reduced it to 3k pages of printed text.~~

Some of the same text appears in both the book and in the attached. But much of what we wrote was not printed and may be of interest to your readers. We are unable to judge whether readers are interested in the details of why and how we selected our furnishings as we did. With editing, our submission might appeal, or we may present "far more detail than anyone cares to know," as one McGraw Hill executive told us earlier.

~~We submit the enclosed draft (with some rearrangement of paragraphs of the original manuscript) for your reaction:~~

~~1. Is there a possible audience for this material?~~

~~2. How might it be modified to make it an acceptable article?~~

~~3. In which journal might it be published?~~

~~After Tom and Bill have conferred on these matters, we might all engage in a conference phone call.~~

~~PRH:atk Attachment HOOVER INSTITUTION 0091 ON WAR. REVOLUTION AND PEACE~~

~~Stanford. California 94305~~

~~April 15, 1982~~

~~Ms. Priscilla Hansen Book Review Department LOS ANGELES TIMES Times Mirror Square Los Angeles, CA 90053~~

~~Dear Ms. Hansen:~~

Thank you for your phone assistance in getting a notice of the affair at the Gamble House on May 2 into the L. A. TIMES. At this affair, the public will be invited to meet the authors of three new books on

~~Frank Lloyd Wright. I have passed the information on to your Dick Lochte and to Randell Makinson of the Gamble House, and they can agree on what to print.~~

~~I am rushing to you a copy of our book published by the MIT Press and the Architectural History Foundation entitled: Frank Lloyd Wright's~~

~~Hanna House: The Clients' Report .~~

~~My wife and I will be present on May 2 to visit with southern California friends of Frank Lloyd Wright about our experiences in building with Wright and about our making of the book.~~

We realize time is so short that a review of our book may not appear in southern California before the May 2 affair. But we are sending you this copy with the hope that you may wish to review it some time later.

~~If and when you are finished with the copy we are sending, you may wish to take it to my friend, Franklin Murphy, and present it to him with our compliments; or you may want to keep the copy yourself.~~

~~bcc: Franklin Murphy Randell Makinson Victoria Newhouse Dick Lochte Frank Urbanowski Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow cross filed: FLLW~~

~~PRH:atk s* atajj- /?/£*.* ^Z£ £/ HOOVER INSTITUTION 82009; ON W\R. REVOLUTION AND PEACE~~

~~Stanford. California 94305~~

~~April 16, 1982~~

~~Hugh and Suzanne Johnston 16 Valley Road Princeton, NJ 08540~~

~~Dear Friends:~~

We appreciated your letter of April 3. The proposed film on FLLW is an exciting project. We wish we were in a position to help financially at this time, but having made three large gifts to educational institutions during the past year we are not able to do more.

~~But we shall be glad to contribute in other ways to this important~~

~~project. I am certain Edgar Tafel has already contacted the same people we think of as possible donors. Money is difficult to raise~~

~~at this time. I am a member of President Reagan's Task Force on the~~

~~Arts and Humanities, so I am very familiar with the current problem of financing such projects as yours. But we must keep trying and one of these days our economy will be in a position to assist.~~

My wife and I spent the Easter Holidays with Mrs. Wright and the Fellowship at Taliesin. Olgivanna is in fine mind and spirits, but not in affluent financial condition. The Fellowship seems busy on interesting projects.

You will be interested to know that on Sunday, May 2, Randell Makinson of the Gamble House in Pasadena is having a party for Wright friends in southern California to meet three current authors of Frank Lloyd Wright books: Tom Heinz, Ed Teske, and the Hannas.

We had a letter today from Brooks saying he had been invited to participate in Sunday's affair, but had other engagements. While at Taliesin we visited with Eric Wright and others who will take part in the May 2 party.

~~Please keep in touch on the film and let us know of progress. Coronal~~

~~PRH:atk Paul R. Hanna cc: H. Allen Brooks Senior Research Fellow Edgar Tafel 820093~~

~~OLGIVANNA LLOYD WRIGHT~~

~~Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright~~

~~and~~

~~The Taliesin Fellowship~~

~~request the pleasure of your company~~

~~Easter Breakfast o/rr^V \*VwVq April 11, 1982 *0y~~

~~Taliesin West R.S.V.P. 820094~~

~~THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES~~

~~Office of the Director~~

~~April 15, 1982~~

Prof. Paul R. Harma Lee Jacks Professor Emeritus School of Education and Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution Room 334 Herbert Hoover Memorial Building Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

~~Dear Paul,~~

I'm sure my own frustration at the unfortunate conclusion of our negotiation with Scott Elliott over the Frank Lloyd Wright letters is compounded many times in your own breast. I think you gave it the best fight you possibly could, but certainly concur with you that the final decision— that is, not to deal with Elliott —was the correct one from Stanford's point of view. He was simply far too wily, undependable and equivocal, and lacked the integrity necessary for us to do business with him.

I also share with you dissatisfaction that we could not bring these letters to Stanford for you and Jean to work with, and to establish beyond question Stanford's eminence in the field of Frank Lloyd Wright research. I also felt frustration because your gift to the Libraries of $25,000 to bring in the letters would have resulted in receipt of a matching grant from NEH of $8300, because your gift would have come during the eleventh hour of our NEH Challenge Grant Campaign for the Humanities.

Our mutual frustration over this double loss causes me to suggest a "modest proposal." Could we snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by es- tablishing a Paul and Jean Hanna Frank Lloyd Wright Purchase Fund in the Department of Special Collections? A gift of $10,000 would draw an additional $3333 from NEH, which ain't a bad bargain these days!

If the concept appeals to you, I would suggest that it be set up as an endowment fund of which the principal could also be expended. Thus it would benefit from income on unexpended balances, but would allow up to the full amount of the balance to be expended for extraordinary purchase opportunities.

~~I feel that the presence of your own extraordinary archive of Frank Lloyd Wright materials and your and Jean's own presence and interest beg for the establishment of such a fund.~~

~~Cecil H. Green Library Stanford, California 94303 (413) 497-2016 — 2~~

~~820094 A p.~~

The other thing that would make this potential donation especially serendipitous is Victoria Schuck's gift to Stanford of three Frank Lloyd Wright drawings she had commissioned for a house that she wanted built about which you know. As you know, she has also promised to check her trunks for ten Wright letters that are in storage in Washington D.C., but which go with the drawings. It would be nice if the separate announcements of the two gifts could be made in a way that might approximate the weight and significance of our obtaining the Elliott hoard.

We would welcome a provision in the gift that purchase decisions be made with your counsel and advice, and feel that it is terribly important to make it possible at this time for Stanford to be able to broaden and deepen our Wright holdings both at present and in the years to come.

I hope you will not think my suggestion has too much chutzpah , but I think it really is important we do something to strengthen the Wright program at Stanford, and hope you will agree. Certainly, the opportunity (which will only last until April 30) to achieve substantial NEH matching for gifts is an opportunity that should not be missed if possible. The Libraries are within a few thousand dollars of their goal, and I think your gift at this time would also bring you additional honor —and publicity—of putting the Library into the bull's-eye of its target goal in the NEH Challenge Grant campaign.

~~Cordially, t&MJL Dr. Paul H. Mosher Associate Director for Collection Development~~

~~PHM : gms .~~

~~nre RANK VDVfclGHl~~

~~N E W^5LE E K POST OFFICE BOX 2100 OAK PARK, I LLINOIS 60. 16 April, 1982~~

~~Dear Paul,~~

I'm very sorry to just have heard about your recent illness. I trust that it was not too severe as you made it to Taliesin for Easter. If I can be of any assistance in the Elliott negotiations, I would be happy to help.

I have just recieved your manuscript. I have not read it yet but plan to before I see you in Los Angeles. I am driving out to the SAH conference in New Haven and stopping in Buffalo and New York to work on the Little House room at the Metropolitan.

~~Hope that Jean is well and that she will be along in L.A.~~

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~~/ /- / • • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM < FICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORP UNIVERSITY OFFICE MEMORANDUM~~

~~820096 I O O Date: April 16, 1982 C z To Professor Paul Hanna~~

~~From . Shirleybhirley Chen mrOOl ft*"~~

~~Subject: Honeycomb House Remodeling (1904) n m Furniture~~

~~5 O > Dear Professor Hanna: z o~~

~~May I first express my appreciation and respect for your concern and~~

love of the precious furniture. I would like to let you know that the Facilities Project Management Office has contacted Ben's Storage in Menlo Park. We will check inventories and their conditions first. > the z -n Then we will discuss this matter with Operation and Maintenance as well o as the Development Office to find the proper uses or places for the oTO furniture. c z

~~I would like to have you join us when we take the field trip to Menlo Park Storage. Please let me know when it is convenient for you.~~

~~Thank you. o~~

~~SC/llk o cc: Jon Cosovich > Z Al Genevro o Bob Nerrie c Lynda Weisberg~~

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~~5 O >TO z o CONFIDENTIAL 820097~~

~~Date: April 16, 1982~~

~~To Paul Mosher \V.~~

* From : Paul Ha nna r

~~Subject:~~

~~Jean and I discussed your letter in v(hich you asked whether we would give another $10,000 to Stanford for use of the libraries.~~

~~The hope that Stanford can become an important center for Frank Lloyd Wright archives to which scholars will come for research is a fervent dream of ours.~~

We have decided that we should husband our resources in order that we may participate in specific opportunities to acquire and work on FLLW materials. If the Martin/FLLW archives become available under terms satisfactory to us, we want to be able to respond promptly.

~~We do thank you for calling to our attention the opportunity as outlined in your letter.~~

~~PRH:atk 820098~~

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~~PRESS HARD you are making 4 copie 820099~~

~~Date: April 16, 1982~~

~~To Board of Governor~~

~~From Shirley Chen~~

~~Subject: Honeycomb House Remodeling (1904) Phase II, Hobby Shop~~

Enclosed is the scheme of the floor plan for the hobby shop remodeling. This scheme presents a simple solution to convert the unfinished work room into a very comfortable and functional living space without destroying the original architectural qualities. It reflects the decision made by the Board of Governor on February 12, 1982.

~~We are proceeding with the working drawings and bid documents now. The construction is scheduled to start in June.~~

~~Any of your comments will be highly appreciated if you can contact me before May 15, 1982.~~

~~SC/llk~~

~~Board of Governor~~

~~David Fulton Jean Hanna Paul Hanna Al Hastorf Don Kennedy Will am Massy Lynda Weisberg Norman Wessells Marlene Wine~~

~~cc: Robert Nerrie Victor Thompson Phil Williams /' / / u / 820100~~

~~Date: April 21, 1982~~

~~To : Gordon Sherwood~~

~~Fiom : Paul Hanna~~

~~Subject: Hanna-Honeycomb House~~

The attached brochure was prepared by Stanford at the time the Nissan Motor Company of Japan gave Stanford $500,000, the income of which is to pay for salary of a caretaker couple and for maintenance of the property.

The composition of the Governing Board for Hanna-Honeycomb House is stated on the right-hand page of the center spread. The caretaker's role and the role of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation are indicated on the last page of this booklet. These matters are developed more fully in our book and in great detail in our archives.

~~This attached copy is very rare so I would like to have it back.~~

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~~April 20, 1982~~

~~Mr. Randell Makinson The Gamble House Four Westmoreland Place Pasadena, CA 91103~~

~~Dear Randell:~~

~~I am enclosing names of a very few people to whom you might send invitations to attend the party on May 2 at the Gamble House.~~

~~You have already talked to Erick Wright and he may have a few names to add.~~

~~Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRH:atk Enclosures (address cards) Ms. Friscilla Hansen Book Review Department LOS ANGELES TIMES 820102 Times Mirror Square Los Angeles, CA 9005 3~~

~~Paul and Jean Hanna~~

~~Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Heiskell 1352 Apsley Road Santa Ana, CA 92705~~

~~Paul and Jean Eanna~~

~~Mail to:~~

~~Dr. Franklin D. Murphy Chairman of the Board TIMES MIRROR Times Mirror Square Los Angeles. CA 9005 3~~

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~~April 20, 1982~~

~~Mr. Bruce B. Pfeiffer Director of Archives The Erank Lloyd Wright Memorial Foundation Taliesen West Scottsdale, AZ 85258~~

~~Dear Bruce:~~

~~Jean and I want to thank you for your gracious hospitality while we were at Taliesin for the Easter weekend. You took much of your time to visit with us and show us around. We do appreciate it.~~

Under separate cover, we are sending you several photographs of Hanna-Honeycomb which may be of use to you in exhibiting. Futagawa took some lovely pictures which you may already have. If not, I am sure he would send you copies - color and black and white.

We would like to have any comment you care to make about the draft of an article we left with you on "Furnishing Our Frank Lloyd Wright Home." We wish to be sure of our facts and you may help us on that score.

~~Our love to Mrs. Wright and all of you in the Fellowship.~~

~~Cordially, G^cA— Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRHratk HOOVER INSTITUTION s~^k. iv ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE~~

~~Stanford, California 94305 820104~~

~~April 21, 1982~~

~~Mr. Thomas Heinz, Editor THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT NEWSLETTER P. 0. Box 2100 Oak Park, IL 60303~~

~~Dear Tom:~~

~~Thanks for your recent note. I seem to be improving so Jean and I will be in Pasadena for the May 2nd affair.~~

~~It will be good to see you there. Hope you can give us a reaction to the piece we sent to you and Bill Marlin at the party.~~

~~Sorry to miss the SAH conference. We plan to attend in Phoenix in 1983.~~

~~We had a wonderful two days at Taliesin. Will tell you about it in Pasadena.~~

~~Cordially, J~~

~~CX. '-~~

~~Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRH:atk~~

~~pu^ OA,a^ : STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES MEMORANDUM 820105~~

~~TO: Professor Paul R. Hanna DATE: 21 April 1982 Hoover Institution~~

~~FROM Roxanne Nil an University Archives~~

~~SUBJECT:~~

~~Paul,~~

~~I will be away during the month of May on vacation (Europe!)~~

~~but as soon as I return, we can carry out our planned "trade" of archival records. Any time in June or July, at your con- venience, would be fine.~~

~~I hope this finds you in good health. The wonderful spring weather has put all of us in cheery spirits, just in time for Spring Quarter's hard work. With best wishes, 'r n>V g#&/oML_ .~~

~~8201C6 fHE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION, INC.~~

~~Street, York, York 10021 628-2996 157 East 70 New New , (212)~~

:ditorial board ,eorge R. Collins Columbia University Henry-Russell Hitchcock Institute of Fine Arts oiro Kostof University of California, Berkeley ymcent Scully Yale University April 22, 1982 John Summerson Sir John Soane's Museum, London

~~Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ha^na The Hoover Institution Stanford, CA 94305~~

~~Dear Jean and Paul,~~

~~Metropolis magazine has requested two black-and-white photographs~~

~~of the house which they may use in their review of the bnok in~~

~~their July /August issue. I am enclosing photocopies of the two~~

~~they have selected, but if for some reason these are unavailable,~~

~~please send them two black-and-white alternatives (exterior shots~~

~~only showing the contours in good detail)~~

~~Would you please the photographs via express mail to:~~

~~Ms. Susan Woldenberg, 544 West 113th Street, Apt. 2F, New York,~~

~~New York, 10025. Metropolis needs these photographs early next~~

~~week, if possible.~~

~~Regards to you both. Sincerely,~~

~~\ .~~

~~Julianne Griffin * bcc: Dennis Bark John Moore Charles Palm Date: April 22, 1982~~

and Roxanne Nilan To : Paul Mosher 820107 /V FroM Paul Hanna y ^ Jean Hanna j*

~~Subject: EXCHANGE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ARCHIVES FOR HANNA EDUCATION ARCHIVES~~

~~We are ready to consumate the exchange of our Frank Lloyd Wright archives for the Hanna education archives we gave you in 1975 and in 1968.~~

~~In giving our FLLW archives to Stanford, it is our fervent hope that this University will become a center for archives and research on the work of Mr. Wright.~~

We have already donated part of our print library to the Art Library and have a number of special books still to give you - a number inscribed and autographed by Mr. Wright. We wish to keep these special items for a few years to remind us constantly of the years we spent working with him.

~~For the moment, we wish to give you the following:~~

~~. . 53 binders of archives of material about the Hanna-Honeycomb House collected during the past fifty years.~~

~~5 volumes of photographs.~~

~~184 drawings and blueprints of the Hanna-Honeycomb House in a five-drawer case.~~

~~12 binders of general material about Mr. Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. A complete set of the seventeen Square Papers by FLLW.~~

~~Later, we will give you the following:~~

~~Binders containing archives collected from 1981 on.~~

2 boxes of sheets inventorying all materials contained in the 53 binders. A set of seven rolls of microfilm of the 53 binders, photographs, and drawings, together with an Index and Guide to be published by MIT Press and the Architectural History Foundation. By using the Index and Guide, you can help scholars use the microfilm and thus protect the delicate materials stored in the archives.

We wish to complete the exchange of archives by June 10. We assume Roxanne would prefer to postpone the exchange until her move to new quarters has progressed farther. But if we could start moving the FLLW materials to your archives- and the Hanna education to the Hoover by the end of May, this schedule would fit our plans.

It is our intent to continue to collect materials for both the Hanna educational collection and the FLLW collection. We eagerly anticipate the pleasure of helping to build both archives in your shop and in the Hoover.

~~PRH:atk /-tjL t^f 'a^c/: HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR. REVOLUTION AND PEACE 201C8 Stanford, California 94.305~~

~~April 22, 1982~~

~~Mr. and Mrs. Sam Barchas High Haven Ranch Sonvita, AZ 85637~~

~~Dear Cecile and Sam:~~

Your gracious letter brings joy and encouragement to us. We are delighted that you find our book worthy of Frank Lloyd Wright. You give us too much credit, but we are grateful and pleased with your assessment.

We speak of you so often and the excitement of our visit with you two. And we look forward to more visits. The science library you gave to Stanford is a topic of conversation where- ever friends of the library gather.

~~We were doubly pleased to have you join us for dinner, but felt the Club was not up to its usual buffet standard. But we were late and the buffet was greatly depleted.~~

~~Next time you come, you will dine with us at home where we can feel more cozy and relaxed. There is so much more we would learn about your extraordinary life.~~

We spent Easter with Mrs. Wright and the Foundation at Taliesin. It was great to visit again with several apprentices whom we had not seen for several years. And, of course, to have an hour alone with Olgivanna was a special treat.

I guess we missed a terrific wind and rainstorm on Easter Sunday. While we basked in the desert warmth, our beautiful cymbidium pots were blown down on the terrace, and our young tomato plants look bad. If only we raised cattle instead of flowers, wind would not have done such damage.

~~Please let us know next time you are this way, and we'll notify you when we plan to be in your area.~~

~~Our fondest greetings,~~

~~Cordially,~~

~~Jean and Paul Hanna~~

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~~Stanford. California 94305~~

~~April 22, 1982~~

~~Mr. Jack Quinan State University of New York at Buffalo 345 L Richmond Quadrangle Ellicott Complex Buffalo, New York 15261~~

~~Dear Jack:~~

I appreciate your notes and phone calls. I have ceased losing weight and hope to gain some (not all) of it back. The heart medicine I was taking was too strong and seriously upset my digestive system. I do not have to have a gallbladder removal. I am feeling much better. Thanks for your concern.

~~What progress with Elliott? I shall be grateful for your report~~

Jean and I are pleased that you find our book on FLLW is OK. We encourage you to finish your book on the Larkin building. That story has yet to be told in detail and with documentation. We wish you every success.

~~Next Sunday, we go to Pasadena for a party. Randell Makinson is having an affair at the Gamble House for the authors of three of the recent books of FLLW. Wish you could be there.~~

~~By the way, I do not believe we ever sent you some of the keepsakes prepared by the committee for the party held last fall at Hanna- Honeycomb House.~~

~~Regardless of what happens to the Martin collection of archives, let us keep in touch.~~

~~C ordialj^,'~~

~~Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRH:atk Enclosures George M. Stefan 820110~~

~~April 25, 1982~~

~~Dear Paul,~~

Enclosed is my copy of your book. As per our telephone conversation a few days ago I am sending it to you for Jean and you to inscribe it for me. It was such a great thrill for me to help you on your project. And I am so pleased that my drawings turned out so well in reproduction. I want to personally thank you for allowing me to help in your project without really knowing me all that well. I really appreciate your confidence in my abilities.

~~Paul, it has been quite an experience for me to meet you and Jean. Your such nice people and you have made my life a little better by knowing you, Thanks again.~~

~~All my best,~~

~~M. Stefan 1535 Wimbledon Court Santa Rosa, CA 95401~~

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~~April 26, 1982 EXPRESS MAIL~~

~~Ms. Susan Woldenberg 544 West 113th Street - New York, NY 10025~~

~~Dear Ms. I'oldenberg~~

~~At the request of Julianne Griffin which just arrived, I am sending what I hope will be satisfactory photographs~~

~~We do not have the exact view, as requested, of the house fron. the driveway, but sending one which we hope will be all right.~~

We do have a copy of the aerial view taken in 1954 which Ms. Griffin requested. I am enclosing, also, an aerial picture taken in 1962 after all the separate buildings were completed. (Note more chimneys, more rooms, summer house, etc.) We prefer the 1962 photograph, but of course, will leave the choice up to you.

~~I would very much like to have these pictures returned.~~

~~Sincerely~~

~~Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRHratk Enclosures (3) cc: Julianne Gri ffin (v/o enclosures) 820113 The Master of Taliesin chitect as hero, the flamboyant prophet Wright fashioned some of the major~~

WRITINGS ON WRIGHT: (distinguished by his pork-pie hat, flow- monuments of world art (such as the Lar- Selected Comments on Frank Lloyd Wright ing mane, and dramatic cape), and the kin building, the Guggenheim Museum, Edited by H. Allen Brooks '49 model for the defiant protagonist of Ayn and the headquarters for Johnson's Wax), M.I.T. Press, 1981. 229 $17.50 pp. Rand's The Fountatnhead. But his unortho- but it was as a domestic designer that he dox and often outrageous public image made his most revolutionary and lasting Writings on Wright is a small but signifi- should not obscure the fact that it was contributions. In his own essay, "Wright cant book on America's greatest architect Wright who changed the traditional con- and the Destruction of the Box," and one of the most fascinating personal- Brooks cept of the room that "existed — unchal- explains exactly how Wright dissolved the ities in the entire history of an. Frank lenged — since the earliest habitations," corners of his houses by dismembering in- Lloyd Wright was more than just the ar- and who designed some of the most re- termediary walls, ceilings, and even floors, 13 markable buildings of the 20th century. and how he "reassembled the shattered

~~Even though he was 75 when the first pieces (images) in a different spatial con-~~

~~book on him in English appeared, the bib- text." Many scholars, critics, and practi-~~

~~liography on Wright is quite extensive. tioners have accepted Wright's pioneering~~

~~Few architects have been more written results, but none before has undertaken to~~

~~about, while Wright himself wrote a great dissect and precisely analyze how Wright deal about his work and his "one-man ex- re-defined the concept of the individual~~

~~periment in democracy." Yet this book is dwelling.~~

~~not a typical anthology. Rather, it is in- Professor Brooks, who teaches at the~~

~~tended "to dispel fable" and "to reveal the University of Toronto, has successfuly and~~

~~truth" in order to provide increased under- sensitively pulled together a lot of diverse~~

~~standing of the artist, his art, and his and unusual material about a complex fig-~~

time. Simply stated, it attempts to answer ure. In the writing of his doctoral disserta- the ultimate question about Wright: tion on Wright, Brooks visited Taliesin, "What did he achieve and how did he the architect's home and studio in Ari- achieve it?" zona. While there, the unusually short

~~Writings on Wright, with its rich selec- Wright turned to the basketball-player-~~

~~tion of articles, interviews, and reminis- sized Brooks and remarked: "Allen, if 1~~

~~cences by architects, students, and critics, were as tall as you, the whole history of~~

~~is of especial interest to scholars. But in modern architecture would have been dif-~~

~~offering a broad range of contributions that ferent." Because of Allen Brooks, one~~

~~include the impressions of fellow design- chapter in that history has been made more~~

~~ers, theoretical statements, letters, diaries, readable, more accessible, and more and newscasts, and even pieces by popular understandable.~~

~~writers like Alexander Woollcott of The William Morgan '66~~

~~New Yorker, the book is of value to anyone interested in Wright. A newcomer to the Architectural historian andformer architecture~~

field, for example, will benefit from the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Wil- comprehensive background material pro- liam Morgan teaches the history of architecture vided by Professor Brooks. at the Allen R. Htte Art Institute of the Uni- Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of versity of Louisville.

~~this study of Wright is that written by and about Wright's clients. He truly believed that "a beautiful building can help man~~

~~dissolve the conflicts of his life," and this~~

~~is best exemplified in the design and con-~~

~~struction of clients' homes. The Wright~~

~~that emerges from these selections is not~~

~~the arrogant, difficult prima donna, but a~~

~~kindly and perceptive psychologist with a profound understanding of the human~~

~~psyche. All his clients initially had doubts about working with Wright and were~~

~~somewhat fearful about what he might~~

~~build. Yet they also reveal the love affairs they subsequently had with their houses and how Wright's design changed and~~

~~shaped their lives. 820114~~

~~STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA 74078 Oklahoma State University IOURNALISM AND BROADCASTING BUILDING (405) 624-6352 KOSU-FM 91.7~~

~~April 27, 1982~~

~~Ms. Claire Silvers, Publicity The MIT Press 28 Carleton St. Cambridge, MA 02142~~

~~ATTENTION: Here is SCRIPT of broadcast book review.~~

Did you ever dream of living in a castle? Or have your aspirations been more contemporary: hoping to live in a house designed especially for you by a famous architect? Today's two books give the inside story on both!

In her Preface, Sheila Sancha says, "I set out to discover all that there was to know about castles. . . .from the earliest times up to the end of the medieval period (in Britain)." Her book, The Castle Story is a lively presentation of this research. Few of us can travel to the many sites on her map. Few of us can spend hours and hours reading history books and architectural studies. Not only has Sancha done the travelling and reading for us, she has distilled and arranged the information so well that her 13 chapters continually inform - fascinate - and satisfy.

Much of the book's appeal is visual. Diagrams and pictures supplement the text. She often superimposes a sketch onto a photograph: her brief phrases are "lettered in" where definitions are needed: and each change of fighting gear, and clothing style, is paraded in the margin. "I wanted to put the people back into the castle" said author- illustrator Sheila Sancha. . .she did that, and much more in her book. The Castle Story is an escape from our daily life. It is an endearing combination of enthusiasm and scholarship.

In modern times some names tend to be accepted as "specific" though we know, for example, that others beside Hoover make vacuum cleaners, others than Frigidaire make refrigerators. The number one (either first in the field, or highly successful) gains recognition and fame.

So it is in architecture with the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. . .even among those who have never seen his work. A newly published book presents an intimate look, examining a specific house. Paul and Jean Hanna were Mr. Wright's clients. In 1935 they began the process that led to the design and construction of their home. Often referred to as the Hanna-Honey- comb House, it is now the property of Stanford University.

Their book is called Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House . It is illustrated with photographs and diagrams ; it includes letters from and to Mr. Wright. The book truly is the biography of the house! Readers meet the architect and his assistants, the clients and many craftsmen, but see all these people .

~~820114 4- Ms. Claire Silvers, Publicity Page 2 as they relate to the house (as much as to each other)~~

The house is alive. It underwent more changes during construction than predicted - perhaps because Wright was not on location. It changed as often as the Hanna's family needs required. Now it adapts to varied use by Stanford University.

This hexagon -honeycomb house is vastly different from conventional design. Paul and Jean Hanna were right to anticipate that it would continue to fascinate people. They prudently kept all the correspondence, all the plans.

Their archives includes hundreds of photographs. . .their book presents a wonderful sampler. The Hanna house can be visited by appointment, but even if you're on your way to California the book is good background.

~~Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House : The Clients' Report by Paul and Jean Hanna is published by MIT Press.~~

~~The Castle Story written and illustrated by Sheila Sancha is published in America by T. Y. Crowell Jr. Books I can assure you it is a literary treat for everyone who reads it.~~

~~Your reviewer is Esta Wolfram.~~

~~Thank you for sending Review Copies ! These reviews are taped at KOSU and included in Friday newscasts. We have had very good audience response.~~

~~Sincerely,~~

~~Uj5xs 'l^M^^ Esta Wolfram The Book Hustler OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM y ~-fU^*( &t~t- 820115~~

~~Date: April 29, 1982~~

~~To . Marilyn Fogel o so O C Z Pau "l R- Hanna From : A <~~

~~Subject.- Hanna-Honeycomb House~~

o We are pleased that the tours of the house are going so strongly and amazed that reservations are full through mid-July. The docents are doing a fine job from what has come back to my ears. 5 o We look forward to seeing the letterhead with the > z hexagonal logo and would also be interested in seeing o c the new map. 2

~~We appreciate the fine job you and your docents are doing. > z O-n oTO atk c z~~

~~5 O >JO Z o c 5~~

~~Stanford, California 94305 ^^~~

~~April 30, 1982~~

~~Mr. Tom Conklin Nashua Reporter Nashua, Iowa 50658~~

~~Dear Mr. Conklin:~~

Our mutual friend, Henry Ponleithner, told me of your plan to build a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I understand you have not been able to build the house he designed for you. I can imagine how disappointing such a delay must be for you.

Inasmuch as we built our FLLW house on the Stanford campus in 1937, I thought it might be interesting to exchange experiences. You may have written of your experiences and I would like to obtain copies.

~~We have published a volume, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House:~~

~~The Clients' Report , which you may have seen (MIT Press) . We have told the story of our "joy and frustration" in working with Mr. Wright. We would like to know if your experiences were similar.~~

~~Incidentally, my family founded Waterloo and relatives still live in Lu Verne, Iowa.~~

~~I include a recent newspaper review of the book which will give some notion of what we experienced.~~

~~Cordially, (y^x/w^^^^ Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow~~

~~PRH:atk Enclosure cc: Henry Ponleithner CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY 820117 SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA 9340v (805) 54 6-0] II~~

~~April 29, 1982 ^gws^*^~~

~~Ms . Marilyn Fogel Director of Educational Services Stanford University Museum of Art Stanford, CA 94305~~

~~Dear Marilyn:~~

I am writing to thank you for arranging the tour around the Hannah House for my students and me. We are most grateful to you for making a special tour possible for us on such short notice and for sparing time to be our personal, charming guide.

The visit was not only stimulating, and instructive, it was uplifting. I'm sure my students will agree that here was a master of light at work. A genius of composition of structure at one with nature. For many of my class it was the first Frank Lloyd Wright building they had experienced at first hand and for them it brought home the meaning of countless words on the subject of design they have heard in recent years. For others, including myself, it was another tingling, refreshing experience which we've grown to recognize when in the presence of the legendary name.

~~For me it was a significant highlight of my two year stay in America - a truly~~

~~unforgetable event. I never cease to delight at his handling of sunlight and shadow^ £fis formidable knowledge and sensitivity with materials and site.~~

~~i Thank you.~~

~~Sincerely,~~

~~Geoff rey~ Rdiide11 Assistant Professor Architecture Department School of Architecture and Environmental Design~~

~~THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY & COLLEGES ; 820118 MEMBERS OF THE TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP, 1932 - [Those who remained at Taliesin are not included in this exploratory listing.]~~

E.B.Kassler (128 Bayard Lane, Princeton NJ 08540) seeks additional names, addresses, corrections, general information. Unstarred names have addresses, but some may be outdated: for corroboration or correction, please send on every recent address you can find.

~~Key: * Current address needed, also participation dates d Death known and biographical information in hand d* Death reported; information sought from family or friends~~

E.P.Abeywardene; Charles Adams; Gordon Adaskin; Harry? Adaskin & wife*; Raj Aderi*; Molly Aeck; Gregor Affleck*; Gordon Alexander; Vernon Allen*; Taro Amano; Nezam K. Ameri; Kamal Amin*; Mohsen Amin*; Ernest Anderegg; Clinton Anderson*; Lynn Anderson; John Aramantides; Steven Arneson*; Margaret Allen Asire (d*); Pat Percy Aramantides*

~~Dierdre & Shreve Babcock*; Marvin Bachman*; Al Badenhop*; Everett & Gwen Baker*; James Banks*; Peggy Banks*; James Barnett*; Mary Joy & Vance~~

~~Barnett*; Betty Barnsdall (d*) ; Elizabeth Bauer (see Kassler) ; Ted Bauer?*; Helen (d) & George Beal; Robert W. Beharka; Paul Beidler*; Anton & Honore~~

Bek*; Frederic Benedict; Myrtle Bengston*; Peter Berndtsen(d*) ; William A. Bernoudy; Curtis Besinger; Andrew Binnie*; Robert F. Bishop; Tor Bjornstadt*; Robert Blandin*; Vincent Bonini*; Carl Book; Visscher Boyd; Paul Bozart*; Branislava?*; Hulda Brierly (see Drake); Ernest Brooks*; Robert C. Broward; Donald Brown; Irene & Noni Buitenkant*; Willets Burnham*; Alfred Bush* William Calvert; Eric David Calvin; Gershon Canaan; Anthony Capucilli; Cary & Frances Fritz Caraway; Louis Casey*; Gordon Chadwick; James Charlton; Richard Clark(d*); Robert Clark*; William Comer*; James Comerford*; Ken & Linda Cramer*; Loch Crane; Robert E. Cross; Lawrence Cuneo*; Victor Cusack Paul Dahlberg*; Desmond Dalton*; Nancy & Roger D'Astous*; Lois Davidson (see Gottlieb)*; William E. Davies; Franco D'Ayala Valva*; Louise Dees-Porch*; Geraldine & William(d) Deknatel; Vergilio De la Piedro*; Giovanni del Drago; James DeLong; Antoinette Prevost DeLong*; Morton Delson; Andrew Devane Giovanni del Drago*; Naftalie De Levie*; Lucy Ann Dick*; Virginia Dixon*; Abrom Dombar*; Benjamin H. Dombar; Kan Domoto*; Brigitte D'Ortschy; Alden B.

& Vada Bennett Dow; Blaine & Hulda Drake ; James & Barbara Fritz Dresser; James Drought*; Jack(Jay) Dunbar*; Jane Duncombe; George & Ruth Dutton*; Arthur Dyson*

~~Theodore Eden; Thomas F. Eden; Charles Edman Jr*; Ipo Eguchi*; Raku Endo;~~

Elizabeth Enright (Gillham) (d) ; Donald L. Erickson; Donal Fairweather*; Sally & Stanhope Ficke*; Parvez Firoz*; William Ford*; Peter Frankl*; Joanne Frazier*; Albert Friedlander*; Earl Frior*; Herbert Fritz Jr; Earl Frye*; William Beye Fyfe* Jane Gale*; Nari Gandhi; Charles Gardner*; Stephen Gegner*; John Geiger; Allen Gelbin*; Noah Genz*; David George; Gratten Gill*; Mary Glasgow*; Burton Glass*; Mendel Glickman(d); Robert Goodall(d*); Burton G. Goodrich*; Robert Goss*; Lois Davidson Gottlieb*; Marcelle Granjanny*; Robert Graves; Aaron G. Green; Robert Green*; Roy Guderian*; Pedro Guerrero*

John Haggard*; Scott D.Hamilton Jr*; Marilyn Hamm*; Bodil Hammergard (see Somkin)*; Wonsam Han*; John C. Harkness; Thurston R. Hatcher; Hideo Hayashi*; Elaine Hedges (Book); David T. & Priscilla(d*) Henken; Gary Herberger*; Henry Herold; George Herrold*; Mark & Myra Heyman; John Hickman(d*); Norman P. Hill; Edward & Maxine Hillstrom*; Andre Hoffe; Philip Holliday*; Kohei Hoshijima; Dudley & Virginia Baillieres Howe*; John H. & Lu Sparks Howe; Herbert Hughes*; Fred & Ruth Hyland 820119

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~~U1* 1 h&jxuf/ ^u^i The IMPRINT~~

~~of the Stanford Libraries Associates~~

~~Published by the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries~~

~~Volume VIII, Number i, April 1982~~

~~Contents~~

~~Message from the Chairman Frank J. Novak 3~~

~~Only the Library Lasts James D. Hart 5~~

~~Frederick E. Brasch: Collector and Historian of Science John Y. Cole 9~~

~~A Brief Introduction to Marbling Chris Weimann 13~~

~~Why Don't They Look It Up? Dixy Lee Ray 21~~

~~Urban IV's Papal Bull William C. Bark 25~~

~~The Making of a Book Arnold E. Olds 28~~

~~Activities of the Associates Carl E. McDowell 30~~

cover: Interior view of the Frank Lloyd W right - designed Hanna Honeycomb House. The hexagonal module on which the house is designed is evident in the fireplace and the surrounding accessories. See articles on pages 18 and 30. Photograph © Morley Baer. The Associates of the Stanford University Libraries

~~Board of Directors Executive Committee~~

Frank J. Novak, Chairman Harry R. Goff, Vice-Chairman Carl E. McDowell, Vice-Chairman Susan Getman Abernethy, Secretary-Treasurer David Botsford, Member Mrs. "William P. Wreden, Membership Chairman Mrs. Darwin Teilhet, Immediate Past Chairman

~~Members of the Board~~

Roger L. Cairns Christine M. McMahon W. B. Carnochan Paul H. Mosher, ex officio Robert R. Gros Mrs. Roy V. Sowers Mrs. Ernest F. Hassbaum George Waters Robin R. Heyeck David C. Weber, ex officio H. Donald Winbigler

~~Advisory Council Mrs. H. Dewey Anderson, Ethel Crockett, John W. Dodds, Charles D. Field,~~

~~Morgan A. Gunst, Jr., Paul R. Hanna, Mrs. Edward H. Heller, George H. Knoles, Henry Miller Madden, Mary Elizabeth Pike,~~

~~Harry L. Sanders, Jr., Peter Stansky, Norman H. Strouse, Adrian Wilson, Mrs. Herman A. Zischke~~

~~Publications Committee~~

~~Mrs. Darwin Teilhet, Chairman; John W. Dodds, Paul R. Hanna, S. J. Moffat, Arnold E. Olds, Norman Philbrick, Marge S. Speidel, Mrs. William P. Wreden~~

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~~Please make checks payable to Stanford University and mail to The Associates of the Stanford University Libraries Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305~~

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~~Members receive copies of the Imprint, keepsakes, and other publications of the Associates, as well as invitations to lectures, exhibits, tours, and other events sponsored by the Associates.~~

~~Copies of the Imprint may be ordered for $2.50 each prepaid.~~

~~by FRANK J. NOVAK~~

~~I'm going to tell you about heroes in this message. My heroes. They~~

~~are men from the distant past who inspire and amuse me. I became in-~~

~~tensely interested in them ten or fifteen years ago when I asked the question, How did men of the Renaissance give new life to the ideas of~~

~~classical times? To answer it, I began collecting works by Erasmus of~~

~~Rotterdam and Marsilio Ficino of Florence. I have enjoyed exploring the question with them.~~

First Erasmus of Rotterdam: A biography by J. Huzinja led me through his early life, then as a seminarian, and finally as a worldly scholar- traveler-teacher. Erasmus corresponded with scholars all over Europe and the Near East, asking for manuscripts from long-neglected monasteries of medieval time. From these manuscripts, in all degrees of preservation, he began his Opus Adagiorum. I visited Harry A. Levinson in his bookstore in Los Angeles and spent one of my most memorable days talking to him about his copy of the third edition of Erasmus's Opus Adagiorum.

I bought the book. Page 552 of this edition contains the "festina lente" ("make haste slowly") homily, a favorite of mine. Erasmus as a com- pulsive collector and organizer extracted these classical sayings from all manner of manuscripts. He placed more than 4,000 of them in alphabeti- cal order so his readers could again know the minds of writers of 1,500 years before. In this way and with additional examples I came to appreciate the monumental job Erasmus did in perpetuating the forgotten intelligence of Cicero, Seneca, Euripedes, and many others. Erasmus was also a popular writer and in his De Civilitate Morum

Puerilium {On Civility in Children) I learned why my life as a left-hander has been more difficult than if I had been right-handed. De Civilitate is a sixteenth-century Emily Post book on manners. At one point Erasmus directs people to set a place at a table with the knife and goblet on the right and the bread on the left. This is backwards for left-handers, and in- convenient. The custom persists and I have adapted, but now I know why. It soon became clear that collecting sixteenth-century books was pro- hibitively expensive. If a good library had not existed nearby, this inquiry might have stopped. Julius Barclay, then curator of the Bender Room at Stanford, came to my aid and gently guided additional investigation from the collections at Stanford.

My second hero is Marsilio Ficino of the Laurentian Academy of Cosimo of Lorenzo de Medici. This scholarly Florentine followed a path similar to that of Erasmus. He gathered manuscripts under the patronage of the Medicis and translated them from Greek and Latin to Italian. Many of his works were printed in the now familiar paperback-sized books pub- 4 Frank J. Novak

~~lished by Aldus Manutius and the Guinti of Florence. On trips to Florence~~

and the Leo Olschki bookstore I purchased several volumes of Ficino's work. One, Contro alia Peste, is a story about the plague by an eyewit- ness. Ficino was a very prolific writer (Paul O. Kristeller edited a two- volume bibliography of his works). But the Aldus imprints quickly became too dear and once again a fine library became indispensable. From Erasmus and Ficino it is a short distance to an interest in publisher/printers like Johannes Froben of Basel, who published Erasmus's "Adages," the Aldines in Venice, and the Guinti in Florence. This led me to printing and hand bookbinding. These two heroes of mine and their

contemporaries have served to enrich my experience. I hope all of you have as stimulating a time with your hero-friends. The Stanford Univer- sity Libraries serve you, me, and the community of scholars in much the same way the Laurentian Academy served by hero Ficino. During the year, the Associates have made gifts to the libraries to com- memorate a visit, to celebrate a special event, or to memorialize a deceased member. In conjunction with Hewlett-Packard, Syntex, and SRI, we gave the Jackson Library in the Graduate School of Business a copy of Dun & Bradstreet's Billion Dollar Directory; the Government Documents Depart- ment will receive Top Secret Hearings by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (first installment, 1959-66); and to celebrate the opening of the newly-renovated Department of Special Collections, the splendid thirteenth-century illuminated manuscript of the Statutes of the City of Marseilles. Memorial volumes chosen were Gerald Moore's Poet's Love for Mrs. Anthony Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci by Martin Kemp for Ed- ward C. Cochrane, and Michel Melot's Graphic Art of the Pre-lmpres- sionists for Clark Cypher.

You will be delighted to know that the Felton Room rehabilitation is finished. Our headquarters for the future will be occupied in a few weeks. The board of directors has authorized hiring a part-time staff person working from the Felton Room who will cooperate with us and our Susans. Many thanks to David Weber for providing the handsome carpeting.

Paul Hanna's wonderful project for encouraging life members is now at the astounding number of twenty-four. Thank you Paul and life members. This is the beginning of a very significant endowment that will benefit the libraries at Stanford. Carl McDowell and the program committee have nearly completed the program for 1982-83. It is full of exciting programs and trips.

~~Frank ]. Novak is chairman of the Associates. Only the Library Lasts~~

~~by JAMES D. HART~~

~~This is one of the principal addresses delivered at the dedi-~~

~~cation ceremonies on October 9, 1981, for the Charles and Frances Field Room in Green Library. The Field Room is the new home of the Department of Special Collections.~~

I am delighted to be here on this happy occasion of dedicating Stan- ford's new rare books room. I am here, of course, as symbolic representa- tive of another great rare books collection in the region, the Bancroft

Library. I come as your good neighbor from down the road and across the Bay. But I like to think I am also here in my own person in my own right. For 45 years I have held active teaching and administrative posts on the Berkeley campus. Although that might suggest I could have earned eleven A.B. degrees there, the fact is that I have only one, and it came from the four years spent right here. To paraphrase another President

~~Kennedy, that is, Jack, not Don, in his statement about Berlin, I can heartily declare: "I am a Stanford man!"~~

Just exactly fifty years ago I was an undergraduate here and already a book collector of sorts. Almost every Saturday I would drive my red Chevy up to the City (of course that means San Francisco) to visit its rather few but choice rare book stores, mainly the elegantly panelled quarters of John Howell, the enticing tiny cubbyhole of David Magee, and the lofty rear room of Gelber Lilienthal, there to buy whatever I could with any spare money I had. I was about to say "any spare money that

I had in my jeans," but the 1930s were before the heyday of jeans. There- fore, I should say any spare money I had in my cords. The highpoint of my little collection was a gathering of inscribed first editions of Ambrose Bierce, or even occasional unsigned copies into which

I tucked autograph letters from Bierce. The highpoint of my collecting was when I was asked to exhibit my collection at Stanford. Indeed, it was displayed in the cases of the hall that ringed the second-floor stairway landing of what was then Stanford's only library. That is now part of the very location of the new rare book quarters we have met to dedicate.

~~For the record, or maybe I mean for the archives, I have brought along one of the display cards used in the cases then, and here it is to be added to the records.~~

All this reminiscence is very pleasant for me, but I really intend to make a point. It is that even an undergraduate, stimulated by classes on literature and by the great books found in the college library, even he or she may modestly become part of that great interdependent linkage of library, collector, student, scholar, and professor. 6 James D. Hart

Collectors, scholars, professors, and students need not be entirely separate beings. Many individuals combine in their own persons two or more of these categories. But all are human beings and therefore all are tran- sient. Only the library lasts to provide the ongoing linkage of past, present, and future. Life is short. Human memory is shorter yet. Mankind can only provide a continuity of culture by word of mouth, by folkways, by pictures, and, most substantially, by the recorded word. From Babylonian days when the word was incised on clay tablets with cuneiform inscrip- tions to our own day when the word is summoned up on the screen of an on-line computer, the written text is the only all-encompassing and ever- available transmitter of our culture. The library where such texts are preserved is the most secure insurance that we have in carrying on the accumulated wisdom and perception of the past to instruct and enlighten the present and, one hopes, to inspire and improve the future. Libraries of various sorts exist, and all are desirable, whether they be the circulating collection for popular, recreational reading, or the technical resource for highly specialized use related to one business, industry, or laboratory. But the large scholarly library, most generally affiliated with a university, is the most significant of all. A great professor of English, Chauncey Brewster Tinker of Yale, was also a great scholar, and finally bearer of the title Keeper of Rare Books in the University Library. Perhaps one may consider that he mounted to higher and higher planes in this sequence of posts. At least he seems to have thought of this as progression upward, for Professor Tinker declared: "There are three distinguishing marks of a university: a group of students, a corps of instructors, and a collection of books; and of these three the most important is the collection of books." Tinker argued thus on the basis he put forward in an address to Yale alumni, to whom he said: "If we are not willing to compete with the best libraries in this country, it is folly for us to attempt to be one of the great universities, for scholars and teachers, graduate students, and, at last, undergraduates, will go where the books are." Books come to a library from diverse sources. Mostly they come by purchase made on the selection of knowing acquisitions librarians. Often the funds that make possible such purchases were presented by generous private donors or the grants of foundations. But there is no scholarly library of distinction that has not achieved its distinction through direct dependence upon the book collector, too. There is, for prime example, Sir Thomas Bodley, who was born in 1545 and died in 1613. He spent nearly sixty years of his life as a diplomat, serving Queen Elizabeth in many delicate negotiations that brought security to England. For that he was rightly esteemed by his contemporaries.

But Bodley would long since have been forgotten were it not for his avocation of book collecting and his decision, as he said, "to take my farewell of State employments and to set up my staff at the library door at Oxford." From this decision there came into being a collection of books that was the beginning of a true university library out of which has grown Only the Library Lasts 7 boundless significant scholarship to enrich the mind and spirit of human- ity. There have been endless tributes to Bodley's benefactions, from his day to ours, frequently in the form of acknowledgments in books created out of research conducted in the resources he assembled for Oxford. One of the earliest was by Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, who happily wrote not long after the founding of the Bod- leian Library:

~~The well-bound volumes shine in goodly rows: Each Muse her own appointed alcove knows,~~

~~And is herself again through Bodley's care, While what belonged to one now all may share.~~

A later poet, Alexander Pope, also paid tribute to the kind of book collecting that Bodley engaged in, collecting not for ostentation or for the purpose of acquiring rarities for rarity's sake. As Pope wrote in his Moral Essays:

~~Tis use alone that sanctifies Expense,~~

~~And Splendour borrows all her rays from Sense.~~

Because of what he did, the name of Sir Thomas is forever remembered in the Bodleian Library of Oxford. What is true of him is equally true of later book collectors and benefactors. Who would now remember Henry Clay Folger, even though he was a president of Standard Oil, if he had not been a great collector of the works of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era? Now it is engraved in endless hearts and minds because of his Folger Library, just across the street from the Library of Congress in our nation's capital. And who would remember Henry E. Huntington, the heir of a great railroad builder's fortune and himself the creator of the Pacific Electric Railway, whose interurban system of transportation, the largest in the United States, once covered the entire Los Angeles basin? The big red cars that shuttled in and out of Los Angeles more than 1,000 times a day are long since gone. But the Henry E. Huntington Library is respected throughout the English-speaking world as a great research center. I even dare say that Hubert Howe Bancroft, for all his thirty-nine volumes of regional history, would be forgotten were it not that his remarkable book collection became a library in itself as part of the University of California.

~~So it has gone these four hundred years since the time of Sir Thomas~~

~~Bodley, and so I hope it will continue to go for centuries in the future.~~

This very ceremony today is testimony to the fortunate continuation of a great tradition: to the continued cooperation between book collectors, generous benefactors, and libraries in the cause of scholarship. And what a happy association of names we celebrate today. The rotunda to display the magnificent materials in Stanford's Special Collections is named for Louis R. Lurie, and I am one to think that this employment of an old San Francisco name will outlive the family's association with San Francisco real estate and investment, even—dare I say it—its association with the national sport and with the Giants. Then we have the !

~~8 James D. Hart~~

great new library building itself that has been made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil H. Green. And in it is the large, handsome reading room for rare books that has been made possible by the gift of Charles and Frances Field. What a lovely concatenation of names; Green and Field! How verdant are those names, how suggestive of growth! To assist that growth in only a small way but as a token of friendship,

~~I present to the Department of Special Collections as a gift from the Ban-~~

~~croft Library two eighteenth-century English publications, which I know~~

fit one of your fields of specialization. They are anonymous satirical and polemical pamphlets on events of the times—respectively 1712 and 1750 —the former in prose, the latter in jingling English and Latin verse, the one titled Ancient Precedents for Modern Facts, the other, The Praises of Jack of Eton, Commonly called Jack the Giant. By coincidence and good fortune, over the years the Bancroft Library acquired two copies

of each of these works. I trust that a copy of each will prove of value to Stanford's eighteenth-century studies. Now this neighbor who has come across the water and down the Pen- insula to his old Farm wishes you well for a fertile future and thanks you for the opportunity to share your celebration today.

~~James D. Hart is director of the Bancroft Library and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.~~

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~~Jacci Etonensis, five Gigantis; OR, THE PRAISES of JACK of ETON,~~

Our Ancestors as wijc as we : Commonly called JACK the GIANT: O R, Collected into Latin and Englijb Metre, after the Manner of Thomas Sternhold, John Hop- Ancient Precedents kins, John Burton, and Others. FOR To which is added A DISSERTATION on the MODERN FACTS. Burtonic Style.

~~By a MASTER of A R T S.~~

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~~(Reduced) Frederick E. Brasch: Collector and Historian of Science~~

~~by JOHN Y. COLE~~

Like many other Americans, Frederick E. Brasch found that the "most memorable" part of his education took place in a public library. But unlike most people, he remembered the precise details. At the age of nineteen, on December 10, 1894, in the San Jose City Library on the third floor of the City Hall, he read an article titled "Recent Progress in As- tronomy and Ten Famous American Astronomers." The result, he recalled years later, was nothing less than the beginning of his dual careers in science and in library work. His career as a book collector was close behind. At the age of twenty, on September 24, 1895, for the sum of twenty-five cents, he purchased a

~~copy of his first science book: J. Dorman Steele's A Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy (1869). Today, this modest volume,~~

handsomely rebound, is part of Stanford's Frederick E. Brasch Collection on Sir Isaac Newton and the History of Scientific Thought, maintained in the Special Collections Department in Green Library. This rich collec-

tion of over 4,000 volumes is the foundation of Green Library's growing research strength in the history of science and technology and the development of scientific ideas. It also is the legacy of a man who fervently believed, at a relatively early period in American scholarship, in the historical and cultural value of studying science. Frederick Brasch's parents migrated to the United States from Germany in about 1874. Frederick, or Fred, as he was called, was born December 18, 1875, in Mobile, Alabama, where his father was a streetcar conductor. The next year the family joined relatives in the San Francisco Bay area, where Fred's father struggled to support his family on income from several successive occupations: grocery store owner in Santa Clara, fruit and vegetable farmer near the village of Milpitas, superintendent of the foreign bottling department of the Fredericksburg Brewing Company near San Jose, and, finally, owner of a large vineyard near Cupertino. Young Fred was a poor student and did not graduate from grammar school. But there were two "neighborhood events" that interested him greatly: the construction (1888-1891) of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton east of San Jose, an undertaking he watched daily through field glasses, and the establishment of Stanford University. His father denied him permission to attend the festivities on Stanford's dedication day, October 1, 1891, instead sending him to work in the vineyards. Two years later, however, Fred and a cousin walked twenty miles north along the railroad tracks to see and admire the campus. After his grammar school failure, Fred was apprenticed to a German bookbinder named Brousius in San Jose. It was during this phase of his life that he began frequenting the library in City Hall, where "the reading Y. Cole IO John lifelong passion for ««°no habit was formed" along with a ^- ^^° American astronomer he took on that he too could become a famous school. Determined "to fit my elf addmonal jobs and enrolled in night interest him: "I gave up all my hobbxes- for college," he let nothing else I could minerals, botanical specimens. All collecting stamps, corns, shells, mathematical symbols. see were the stars and everything from his diploma Hard work prevailed, and, armed with Pacific, the Astronomical Society o the to his membership certificate in 1897. Not being fully qualified, Fred applied to Stanford in September of the Committee on Special Students. he was interviewed by the members new student "found the road mighty The decision was affirmative, but the assigned and not being quite well hard due to the large amount of work of this new routine of study^ prepared for the speed and difficulty by train to Palo Alto, where he Furthermore, he lived at home, traveling in a fraternity. as a waiter . , also worked , , But he returned for the second, moving He failed the first semester. wooden shacks used as barracks onto campus in the "Camp," a cluster of and now occupied by male stu- during the construction of the Quadrangle Encina Hall, the men's residence He dents who could not afford to live in the corner of the main building. paid two dollars a month for his room in nearby Roble Hall, the women s resi- Fred also found a job as a waiter in time with a hundred beautiful dence. "Entering the dining hall for the first "I almost fainted." sweet faces looking at me," he wrote later, second semester, and, He managed to pass his courses during the calculus, and astronomy, through intensive summer study in geometry, When it was over how- he prepared himself for a difficult second year. Stanford student and transfer to ever he had to "pocket his pride" as a After two years of courses there, the University of California at Berkeley. be impossible because of the he realized that "securing a degree would in making up my high school creden- extra years I would have to spend practical experience and training. tials," and he left school to acquire temporary assistant- The aspiring young astronomer soon obtained a including one at the Har- ship at Lick Observatory. Other jobs followed, wife and two sma 1 vard Observatory in Cambridge. But he now had a for a position as a clerk children to support. He soon left scientific work extra pay by working as in the Stanford bookstore, where he could earn a janitor at night. to me more than the In 191Z, because "the inside of a book appealed began as a desk outside," Fred Brasch decided to become a librarian. He Library, then in 1913 attendant at the circulation desk in the Stanford before returning to attended courses at the new library school at Berkeley he was not re- Stanford to work in the Law Library. In 1916, however, appointed to his post and began to seek jobs elsewhere. carried During the next decade his devotion to science and librarianship positions at the John him east. He aggressively pursued and obtained Hill Reference Library in Crerar Library in Chicago (1917), the James J. D.C., at the National St. Paul, Minnesota (192.1), and, in Washington, 1

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Research Council (192.2), and the Carnegie Institution (1923). On De- cember 16, 1924, he was appointed assistant chief of the Smithsonian Division in the Library of Congress, that institution's science division. He was made chief the next year, thus finding himself, at the age of forty-nine, in charge of the country's largest scientific collection. While Stanford University always had first claim on Fred Brasch's loyalty, the Library of Congress was a close second. His career there enabled him to carry out long-deferred ambitions to write and to promote the history of science as a field of study. He published articles in magazines such as Science and Popular Astronomy, wrote biographical essays about the American astronomers Stephen Alexander and John Winthrop for the Dictionary of American Biography, and contributed papers to scholarly meetings. And he was active in not less than nine scientific and scholarly associations. Fred Brasch's writings, scientific activities, and work at the Library of Congress reflected his basic belief that the study of the history of science as a whole, with stress on the "cultural and broadening effects" of scientific thought and principles, was of the greatest importance—and probably more important than the detailed study of any specific scientific field. An understanding of the general history of science could help one see how the universal and international character of science served as the "arbiter of the future of man and of peace." His annual reports at the Library of Congress contained frequent comments on the "progress" of the history of science as a field of study in addition to many references to the vital role of science in the "affairs of life." Above all, employment at the Library of Congress gave Fred Brasch the opportunity to build his personal book collection about the history of science and especially Sir Isaac Newton. The collection exemplified his belief that one of the best ways to study the history of science was to analyze the significant writings of the great figures. Taking advantage of low wartime prices, in 1940 he acquired a significant amount of his "Newton material," including first editions of the Principia (1687) and Opticks (1704). He later told a correspondent that during the first years of the war he spent money "like a drunken sailor on shore leave," but by 1945, when the price of the same edition of the Principia that he had purchased for $290 had soared to $850, inflation had sobered him up. Apparently as early as 1933 Brasch had informed the director of libraries at Stanford, Nathan van Patten, of his intention to leave the collection to Stanford in appreciation for "the wonderful opportunity to become a special student in 1897." By June 1941 the collection had grown to over 1,500 books and pamphlets, plus numerous portrait prints, medallions, and manuscripts. That month, during the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the university, "the first ten important rare items were presented to the Stanford University Library as a foundation to build upon." The only condition was that the Stanford-Newton Collection, as it was designated, be kept together "for research and reference use" in the library's rare book repository. IZ John Y. Cole

The agreement made and the first books presented, a steady stream of volumes began to arrive at Stanford, and Frederick Brasch, with his retire- ment from federal service drawing near, longed to go west with his collec- of rare books tion. In 1943 he informed Jeannette M. Hitchcock, keeper at Stanford, that he was "counting the days until I can come back home (Stanford) to work on my larger task, the history of scientific thought in America and the Newton bibliography." reorganized On March 30, 1944, Brasch's Smithsonian Division was and renamed the Science Division, and he was designated the Library of Congress's first consultant in the history of science. Brasch's last activity at the Library of Congress was to represent it and the National Academy of Sciences at the Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Sir Isaac New- ton, held in England under the joint auspices of the Royal Society of London and Trinity College, Cambridge. In a postcard to Jeannette Hitch- cock, he called the experience "the highlight of my career." Family obligations kept Frederick from coming "home" to join his collection in the Stanford Library until 1948. Upon his arrival he was named consultant in bibliography, and, for the next fifteen years, as consultant and curator of the Newton Collection, he could be found "carrying on his writing most happily" at his desk in the Bender Room. His collection continued to grow, reaching over 3,000 volumes by May

1962, when it was featured in a special exhibition. On this occasion he published "An Essay on Sir Isaac Newton and Newtonian Thought" as exemplified in the collection, a booklet that still is the best introduction to the collection. In 1965 the scope and name of the collection were offi- cially enlarged to include the history of scientific thought. Ill health eventually forced Brasch to resign his curatorship, and, on October 26, 1967, at the age of 92, he died in a nursing home in nearby Mountain View. In a tribute delivered at the funeral, Associate Stanford Librarian E. M. Grieder summed up the Stanford community's debt and feeling for Fred- erick E. Brasch with a quotation from a 1962 statement by Raynard C. Swank, then director of Stanford University Libraries:

Much of the scholarly usefulness and distinction of any great university library consists in special collections which have been built by years of patient, de- voted, and expert labor. The Frederick E. Brasch Collection may be taken as a classical example of such a resource. In strength and completeness unique in this hemisphere, it is beloved and absorbing life-work of a true scholar and bib- liophile for whom the work has been its own reward. He has received no other save our deep affection and gratitude, and the respect of scholars around the world who have benefited from his wisdom, generosity, and unstinting kindness.

John Y. Cole, a staff member in the Department of Special Collections, is on a one-year leave of absence from his job as executive director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. This article is based primarily on an auto- biographical sketch by Frederick E. Brasch found in the Brasch Family Collection, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, and on documents in the administrative file for the Brasch Collection in the same department. A Brief Introduction to Marbling

~~by CHRIS WEIMANN~~

Marbling is a process for producing designs on paper, and as both art and craft has been practiced for centuries. Marbled papers have been used principally for end sheets in books, although similar designs appear in many media—on wallpaper, glass, pottery, cloth, and film. A patent for marbling cloth was granted in England in 1851. Marbling has even provided special effects in movies, a classic example occurring in the motion picture 2.001: A Space Odyssey. Marbled patterns have been popular since ancient times. Glass bottles from Egypt dating about 1365 B.C. have zigzag and nopareil designs very similar to marbled end sheets. These designs were made by wrap- ping heated glass rods around the bottle and combing them. Pottery from the Sung Dynasty in China (a.d. 960-1279) has free-flowing patterns representing the moving Cosmic Spirit that infuses and vitalizes all things. These designs were called Chi in the Taoist religion. Scholars theorize that the technique for marbling paper also developed in China and traveled west through central Asia, Persia, and Turkey. Firm dates are rare, and trails are obscure. Marbling can be a simple process or very complex, depending on the designs and colors desired. The simplest technique is to float oil colors mixed with rectified turpentine on water, then to make a free-flowing design by drawing an awl through the colors. A sheet of absorbent paper is laid onto the surface of the water, and the design transfers to the paper. The only tools needed are a pan to hold the water, a brush for applying the colors, and an awl for creating the design.

This method is so easy and requires so few materials that it is often used in elementary schools to demonstrate the principles of color. In- structors also use it for classes in graphic design, printing, and bookbinding. There is a more complex and traditional technique, however, that requires longer preparation, more practice, specialized equipment, and unusual materials. The more complex procedure produces a far greater range of colors and designs. One early technique of marbling, known in Japan as suminagasbi, is similar to Western marbling but does not give the artist as much control over the outcome. Only inks floated on water are used. The artist has a separate brush for each color and holds all the brushes at once. He touches each in turn to the surface of the water to form concentric circles. He then blows on the colors or fans them to create a pattern. A stylus or chopstick may be used instead of fanning, but no combs or elaborate tools. The natural interaction between ink and water helps to produce the distinctive suminagashi design. A highly absorbent paper is essential to the success of this technique. Most Western papers would have to be 14 Chris Weimann

treated with a mordant before the color would adhere to the paper. The Japanese frequently used suminagashi paper for poem cards, end papers, book and manuscript covers, and divider screens. A beautiful example of suminagashi marbling is found in the Tale of Genji scroll presently in the Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C. It was made in the seventeenth century by Tosa Mitsunari. Some of the woodblock prints by Harunobu, also from the seventeenth century, have suminagashi

designs in the background. It is very rare for a marbled design to appear in the background of a woodblock print, but these are even more unusual because the design was carved on the woodblock and then printed. Most authorities believe that the suminagashi technique was actually developed in China. Some pottery plates from the T'ang Dynasty (a.d. 618-907) do have patterns similar to suminagashi, but they were not produced by the same method. Instead, the clays were stirred together before firing. The earliest example of suminagashi that I know of is a Japanese document (two pages of Sanjuroku-nin Shu) dating from a.d. iiiz. Marbled papers have been used in India, Persia, and Turkey for a variety of purposes. The most common procedure was to cut them into strips and paste them onto paintings and pages of calligraphy as borders. But a border might come from a period other than that of the painting or calligraphy. Sometimes borders were added at a later date, or old marbled borders were added to more recent works to enhance them or make them seem older. Calligraphy was at times done directly on marbled paper; some examples of this technique can be dated back to the fifteenth century. Marbled paper was also used for official documents, because any attempt to alter the contents would damage the background.

~~Marbled Turkish flower by Chris Weimann.~~

~~Facing Page. Album page of a marbled painting.~~

~~Bijapur or Golconda, c. 1650: A tiger eating a gazelle, surrounded by deer. From the collection of~~

~~Dr. Edwin Binney III. A Brief Introduction to Marbling 15~~

Marbling is called abru in Turkey, meaning "cloud art." During the early seventeenth century, Turkish artists developed a technique for creating a flower with a stone-patterned background in a single application. Flowers had a mystical and poetic significance for them and were common motifs in decoration. This technique was further developed in this century by Prof. Necmeddin Okyay and is called Necmeddin-ebrusu. For me, the most fascinating examples of marbling are the marbled paintings. In some, faces or other small areas may be painted or outlined in gold by hand, but the overall design is achieved by marbling. Few of these paintings survive, and most are undated and unsigned so we are not sure where they were made. But most specialists now agree that they were produced on the Deccan Plateau in southern India, mainly during the middle of the seventeenth century. The best known of these portrays a starving horse.

I have been studying marbled paintings for several years and have attempted to duplicate some of them to learn how they were made. Some appear to have been produced with resist or a stencil, or by collage, and others combine two of these methods. The high technical quality of these paintings demonstrates that marbling had become very sophisticated in the Middle East three centuries ago. Europeans may have first learned about Middle Eastern marbling from diplomats who traveled to Turkey and commissioned craftsmen to make albums containing marbled paper. Some of these albums date from the sixteenth century. Increasing trade between Europe and the East spread knowledge of marbling, but commercial marbling shops did not become common in Europe until the eighteenth century. 6

~~1 Chris Weimann~~

~~Sir Francis Bacon referred to marbling as early as 1627, and other~~

writers of the same period also mention it. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher published a detailed description of marbling techniques and materials; his book was written in Latin and published in Rome. After this, only two significant books on marbling were published (by Johann Kunckel in 1679 and Diderot's Encyclopedia of 1767) until Charles Woolnough's The Whole Art of Marbling appeared in London in 1853. Nevertheless, marbling was a flourishing craft in Europe by the nineteenth century. Masters of that time considered their knowledge a trade secret, though, and were careful not to reveal their techniques even in their own workshops. Naturally, they condemned Woolnough harshly for publishing his book. Apprentices were taught only single steps in the process—how to mix colors, create a given pattern, or make the size (the base upon which the colors float) —and rarely learned all the steps required. Because they could not make a large range of patterns and duplicate them efficiently, they could not compete by setting up their own shops. You could learn the craft without being apprenticed to a master, but experimenting on your own was expensive and laborious. This secretiveness held back the artistic development of marbling, and a great deal of knowledge and experience was lost whenever a master craftsman died. One person who attempted to solve technical problems of the craft was Joseph Halfer, a bookbinder, probably German, who lived in Budapest late in the nineteenth century. He was to marbling what Cobden-Sander- son was to bookbinding, William Morris was to printing, and Dard Hunter and John Mason were to papermaking. Woolnough recommended gum tragacanth as a size, and colors and patterns that had been used traditionally in earlier centuries. Halfer revolutionized marbling by studying its chemistry and techniques and by manufacturing his own colors. He wrote several books and many articles describing his discoveries, thereby helping and encouraging others. Oddly enough, we know little about Halfer personally although he influenced many fine craftsmen such as Joseph Hauptman, Paul Adam, Paul Kersten, and Franz Weisse. The secrecy surrounding paper marbling and the development of new production methods contributed to the decline in originality and crafts- manship observed by the end of the nineteenth century. A device called the drop rack produced more uniform patterns and colors but made the designs look much more mechanical. By 1891, a marbling machine was invented that made a narrow strip of lightweight, high-gloss paper with a nonpareil pattern in two or three colors. It could duplicate designs almost exactly, and the operator did not have to be a trained marbler. But the patterns lacked the perspective and variety of color that make hand-marbled papers unique. Other approaches involving transfer papers and rollers with marbled designs etched on them produced the same inferior results as the marbling machine.

~~The traditional technique that I prefer to use in my own marbling be- The first step in making a pattern: applying colors to the size with an eyedropper.~~

~~Illustrations below show the successive stages of the pattern's development as colors are added. oo oo o o oo oo oo~~

gins with the preparation of size. Size performs the same function as water in the simpler technique but has the added advantage of slowing down the movement of the colors, enabling the marbler to create more intricate patterns. Size is made from carrageen moss, a seaweed, which is mixed with distilled water (about one ounce of moss to a quart of water, depending on the quality of the moss). The mixture is heated slowly until the moss absorbs the water and forms a gelatin; then about two more quarts of water are added while the gelatin is hot, thinning it almost to the consistency of milk. The consistency is varied according to the type of pattern to be made. The size is strained to remove impurities and then poured into the marbling trough. When the size has settled, it is skimmed lightly with a wooden or metal blade to reduce the surface tension immediately before applying the colors. The colors are usually special marbling inks, but tempera or gouache may be used instead. They are mixed with ox gall (a material extracted from animal bile) which serves as a dispersant—it makes them float and spread on the size. The first color may contain from eight to twelve drops n~r*

of ox gall; in succeeding colors the amount is increased. Both the color involved and the temperature and thickness of the size influence the amount of dispersant required. The colors may be placed on the surface of the size with a brush, eyedropper, or drop-rack. The design is drawn with a stylus, peg-rack, or comb; these last two are strips of wood holding wires, pins, or pegs at even intervals. The design is determined by the way the colors are applied and how the tools are drawn through them. After the design is formed,

a sheet of paper held at diagonal corners is laid directly onto the surface of the size. The paper absorbs the design immediately. It is lifted off the surface, rinsed to remove excess size, and hung up to dry. Eventually it should be pressed to remove any wrinkles.

~~Paper for marbling must be absorbent and without fillers. It is treated with a mordant such as potassium or ammonium alum for better adhesion~~

~~of the color; approximately one ounce of alum is used for every quart~~

~~of heated distilled water. When the mordant mixture has cooled it is~~

applied to the paper with a sponge, and then the paper is pressed and From left to right, drawing the peg-rack through the colors, followed by the double comb, and lifting the completed sheet from the size.

~~Again below is shown the continuing development of the pattern.~~

~~Photography by Muir Dawson. 20 Chris Weimann~~

used while still slightly damp. The degree of dampness is extremely important—a paper that is too dry will develop air pockets, while colors will not adhere to paper that is too damp. Only one marbled sheet can be produced from each application of color. The size must be skimmed to remove all color and the combs and peg racks cleaned before the process can be repeated. In the eighteenth century, some papers were treated with wax and then burnished with an agate stone to protect the design and give it a glossy finish. Later a machine called a calender was used to produce a similar glossy finish by pressing the papers between metal rollers.

~~I learned paper marbling by trial and error rather than by being taught~~

~~by someone. Accordingly, I believe that I am more receptive to trying~~

~~anything that might possibly work. I have experimented with all sorts of~~

~~colors, such as tempera, gouache, and some oil-based inks. I have also tried many types of colloids for the size. Tempera colors have been most~~

~~widely used for marbling, but I worked with them for some time before~~

~~I was able to make them float, expand, and adhere the way they should.~~

~~Later I decided that acrylics work best for my purposes.~~

~~Even after ten years I do not have a set formula. Sometimes I use tem-~~

~~pera or gouache instead of acrylics, or a cold size that I mix in a blender~~

instead of cooking it, or even gum arabic. It all depends on the effect I am looking for. My favorite method, however, is to use acrylic with a guar gum or carrageen size that has been cooked. I still use ox gall for some purposes, but Kodak Solution #200 and Tri-Ess Hydronyx are my favorite wetting agents or dispersants.

The chemistry of marbling colors is very complicated. All the ingredients—the pigments, dispersants, surfactants, and binders—must be mixed together in just the right proportions. Furthermore, you cannot simply find the right materials and depend on them for consistent performance. Surface tension, temperature, humidity, and even dust will alter the results you achieve with a given set of materials.

Even with these difficulties, paper marbling is easier today than it was even a few years ago. Once-hard-to-find materials can now be purchased from a number of suppliers here and in Europe, and training workshops and books on the subject have become more widely available. Marbled papers may never become as important commercially as they were in past centuries, and it is unlikely that marbled patterns will again assume the mystical significance they had in some cultures. But it is clear that this ancient craft is enjoying a reviving interest today.

Chris Weimann is the author of Marbled Papers (1978) and Marbling in Minia- ture (1980), both published by Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles. He has given numerous lectures and slide presentations on marbling, including a presentation to the Associates in February 1981. Why Don't They Look It Up?

~~by DIXY LEE RAY~~

~~A few months ago I felt surprised, then amused, and finally a little~~

scornful when I read a wire service item in our local newspaper. It announced the discovery, by two researchers from a very prestigious eastern university, that the digestive system of the wood-eating marine crustacean Limnoria lignorum totally lacks microorganisms. No bacteria, no proto- zoa, and no fungi inhabit this animal's gut. Now that is unique, for all other known animals that eat wood are able to do so because their digestive systems contain microorganisms that produce cellulases—enzymes capable of breaking down the cellulose in wood. Limnoria, alone among

~~multi-cellular animals, produces its own cellulase.~~

I was familiar with the facts behind the announcement because I had discovered them myself—30 years before! My research findings were published not in "obscure" journals but in two widely-read and still easily-accessible scientific journals, Nature (London) and Science in the United States. The data were printed in numerous Office of Naval Re- search reports, were presented orally at the International Zoological Congress at Copenhagen in 1952, and were duly recorded in the conference proceedings. The same results, with further supporting research, appeared in the published proceedings of the Symposium on Marine Bor- ing and Fouling Organisms, published by the University of Washington Press, Seattle, in 1959. The news story seemed incredible. How could anyone report as new a finding that had been published so extensively? Don't scientists consult

~~the literature any more? Is it really more cost-effective, as I have heard some industrial scientists claim, to do research than to determine whether~~

~~it has been done before?~~

~~How unfortunate if the answers to the last two questions are "yes."~~

~~The time I spent in library stacks and among archives always brought~~

me sheer joy. And many times it kept me from coming to an incorrect conclusion. During the early 1950's a lot of people in southwestern Washington were excited about so-called lands of accretion, referring to beachfront built up by waves and currents along the sandy ocean coastline. The question was: To whom did the additional beach belong—the state or the people who owned the adjacent upland property?

~~In thinking about the matter, I recalled the annual cycle at Carmel~~

~~Bay, which I had observed while a student at Stanford's Hopkins Marine~~

Station in Pacific Grove. I remembered that changes in the set, or direc- tion, of wind and ocean currents between winter and summer caused the beach to be piled high with sand in summer but to be much lower in winter. A vertical difference of four to six feet was common; we used to 22 Dixy Lee Ray

~~say that the ocean took the sand to sea every winter, laundered it, and~~

returned it clean and white early the following summer. Could the same phenomenon be occurring on Washington's sandy shores? Of course. Old shipwrecks were uncovered in winter but could hardly be seen in summertime. And then on a trip to Long Beach I observed driftwood high up along the shore, well out of reach of waves at even the highest tides. How did it get there?

So off I went to the archives for answers. Sure enough, old Coast Guard charts of southwest Washington showed that the shoreline was quite different sixty to a hundred years before. But even earlier descriptions by explorers and some of the first inhabitants of the area revealed conditions more like those of the 1950s. I was also able to establish from records that Pacific Ocean currents north of the Columbia River not only have an annual directional cycle but also shift slowly over longer periods of time. These long-term shifts build up and then destroy offshore sand bars that protect the beach; when the sand bars disappear, the beach is heavily eroded. The "lands of accretion" are indeed temporary. They appear and disappear every 60 to 120 years. That is just long enough for people to forget—unless they consult the old records. Archival materials have also proved helpful in understanding altera-

~~tions in the relative abundance of certain species of marine life. People commonly attribute such changes to industrial pollution or other irre-~~

~~sponsible actions on the part of mankind. There is no question that humans can, and indeed have, adversely affected marine life in some~~

localities. But nature is much tougher and more persistent than many people realize. And there are natural cycles of abundance and scarcity that may recur over periods as long as decades or centuries. Let us look at some experience with the northern abalone, Haliotus kamchatkana, as an example. Museum specimens and old records from 19 10 to 1940 at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Labora- tories on San Juan Island clearly prove that this delectable mollusc was once found on the shores of that island. After I began teaching and doing research at the laboratory in 1947 I searched diligently for abalone in the

area, but I could find them only in the museum. It was not until the early 1960s that the first living specimen was spotted anywhere in the San Juan Islands. Within two or three years the abalone became common; they were found on the breakwater of the city of Vic- toria (on Vancouver Island) and on beaches near the laboratory. Had they been there all along but were just overlooked? No, they reappeared. And they reappeared during a period when the human population grew rapidly, the numbers of pleasure boats and scuba divers increased substantially, and recreational use of the beaches expanded considerably. Similar but somewhat shorter cycles of scarcity and abundance have been documented for squid, jellyfish, nudibranchs, marine worms, starfish, and many other invertebrates. Although records abound on the shifting and recurring populations of particular species, in our zeal to "protect" nature we too often overlook the many complex, interacting events that Why Don't They Look It Up? 2.3

determine their success or failure in maintaining population levels. In the sea, population cycles are not necessarily related to the calendar year; they may repeat themselves at intervals of decades or longer. Perhaps the most intriguing example of archival detective work I know about deals with the relationship between (1) cycles of abundance and scarcity among Norwegian herring and (2) slight shifts in the set of the Gulf Stream together with the "wobbling" of the earth's axis. Fishery scientists discovered the correlation by examining tax records—specifically, taxes paid to the Crown over a period of 1,000 years by the fishing villages along the west coast of Norway. When the herring were abundant, the villages flourished and paid high taxes; when the herring catch was low, so was the tax that could be collected. Fishing records do not go as far back as tax records, but we can learn from the latter just as well. Recently there have been expressions of concern in the state of Wash- ington over skin lesions and tumors found on sole and flounder. These lesions are a form of cancer, and eager environmentalists have blamed industrial pollutants. But such tumors have been known to fishermen

for many years; flatfish are always skinned before eating, and there is no danger to humans from either handling or eating the flesh. Several years ago investigators at Friday Harbor thoroughly studied the skin lesions and tumors of flatfish. They found that sole and flounder obtained from pristine waters also had skin defects similar to those on flatfish living in polluted harbors. This is not to say we should tolerate industrial pollution of marine waters. But neither should we assign causes to recognized problems without valid evidence. We live in an era of almost instant communication. Patient searching of library and museum materials must seem irrelevant to many. We expect instant answers to our questions, instant solutions to our problems—however complex they may be. And having established that some human activities have harmful effects on the environment, we tend to assume that human intervention is responsible for all ecological changes. That simply is not so. We must apply the same strict standards of investigation here that we require of our medical laboratories when proving the cause of infection; otherwise we will equate coincident environmental occurrence with true cause and effect. To apply such standards when answering ecological questions, it is often necessary to consult the past. Careful perusal of natural and human records will prevent too easy assignment of blame. It will restore both our confidence and our common sense. Who knows—it might also show that human beings are not so bad for the environment after all.

Dixy Lee Ray, who received her Ph.D. in biology from Stanford in 1945, has had a distinguished career in education, science, and public service. She was on the faculty of the University of Washington for 31 years, served as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1973-1975, and was governor of the state of Washington from 1977 until 1981. i -ci:«Tiri> tXTtru i u (I J I

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~~by WILLIAM C. BARK~~

In 1979, the Associates presented to the Stanford Uni- versity Libraries a zz6z papal bull written on vellum in thirteenth-century chancery script. The gift was in honor of George H. Knoles, outgoing chairman of the Associates. The following translation and explanation of the document were originally written for Professor Knoles.

This fascinating letter, or what remains of it, was sent by Pope Urban IV to the unnamed provincial minister of the Friars Minor of Treviso, Italy. Urban gave only the title, provincial minister, and not the man's name in order to avoid complications in case the individual had died before the letter reached his office. "Hubertus," "Alexander," or "Eu- genius" might die, but there would always be a "provincial minister." It was simply a precaution taken for the purpose of avoiding long delays. This particular letter belonged to the class of papal letters called Letters of Justice, or sometimes Mandates. They were distinguished from the somewhat more elevated type of letters called Letters of Grace or Tituli. The latter were of a higher order because in them the pope conferred gifts of various kinds, rights, statutes, benefices, and the like. The Mandates generally dealt much more with hard-nosed business, instructions, pro- hibitions, appointments to specific tasks, and other administrative affairs. They varied widely because they covered a great variety of subjects and could not readily be systematically organized. They had to be flexible and adjustable.

~~This letter is decidedly and amazingly unusual. I have never seen one like it among Urban's many letters (as I recall there are extant about 160).~~

I once went through a great many of them, when about 50 years ago I was working on Manfred of Sicily, who had run-ins with Urban as well as with four other popes, all the fourth of their name—Celestine, Innocent, Alexander, and Clement.

The leaden seal that was once attached to the letter by a string is missing. That is not at all unusual, for it was easy to detach. Letters of Justice, by the way, had hemp strings, whereas the Tituli had silken cords. Other points that identify this as a Mandate or Letter of Justice are such terms as Per apostolica scripta and Praecipiendo mandamus. When those expressions appear, the polite preliminaries are finished and we get down to business; the pope then tells the recipient just what he is going to do.

What makes this letter especially interesting is that the pope repeats himself three times in stating that the Minister and his brothers are to collect the money in their district and send it to Rome. Urban had been 2.6 William C. Bark

Urban, bishop, servant of the servants of God. To our beloved son, the Provincial Minister of the Friars Minor of the March of Treviso. Greetings and Apostolic blessings. Since we have sent to you (and through you to other brothers of your Order whom you know to be qualified for the task at hand) our directions governing the collection, in prescribed conditions, of moneys to be used in furtherance of our plans for the aid and protection of the Holy Land, and now wish the collection of these funds to be pressed more speedily, lest our assistance to the aforesaid Land be delayed, we do charge to your discretion and in our instructions through Apostolic precepts in keeping with the virtue of obedience do rigorously command that the Apostolic mandate be executed in this region by you and the aforesaid brothers. We wish the indulgence of the Apostolic See, in connection with which, as we have said, it was assigned to the brothers of your Order to collect the moneys and duly send them to us from your district, to be respected and we further wish you to perform this commission swiftly, conscien- tiously, and effectively with the support of whatever further indulgence of the same See may be required to the end that the promised assistance be in no way delayed or disavowed.

~~English translation of Urban' s letter, dated June 30, 1262, during the first year of his pontificate. The document itself is reproduced on page 24. Urban IV s Papal Bull 27~~

~~Patriarch of Jerusalem before being elected to the papal office. He had a~~

~~keen interest in the Holy Land and the reunification of the Church. It is quite clear that the Friars Minor of Treviso had an equally keen interest~~

~~in keeping that money in their March, where they thought it belonged.~~

I have seen no other letter of Urban IV's in which he has spelled things out this way and come as close to making threats as was seemly for him in dealing with other clerics. In addressing secular princes his lan- guage was not always so restrained.

~~All in all, however, Urban is rather subtle in indicating what he wants. This comes out particularly in the veiled (but really very clear) references~~

to papal indulgences, which had during the period of Frederick II, some years before Urban's pontificate, become much used devices for raising money for the papacy, especially indulgences releasing from their military service—for a fee—enthusiastic persons who had promised to go on crusade. There is no unseemly, blunt reference to any quid pro quo, but the intentional vagueness does not conceal what Urban was driving at. Note also that the reference to the use of indulgences is made after the strong declaration of Urban's command, as if it were merely an explana- tory codicil. Urban and the Provincial Minister knew where the money was coming from and in whose possession it was going to end up.

The letter is not well edited and I had to make such editorial adjust- ments as I could in the circumstances. There are omissions as well as deliberately vague remarks. The Latin is typical thirteenth-century Medie- val Latin in that it abandons most of the Classical rules, but not always, sometimes combining Medieval and Classical usages in the same passage.

~~Another strange distinction of this particular letter is that it is all in one long sentence. I have divided it into two sentences, but they are still long.~~

~~This is the only case of its kind I noticed in Urban's voluminous correspondence.~~

~~I wonder whether the member of the papal Chancery who wrote this letter was brought from the East by Urban when he returned to Italy.~~

Because of the curious mode of writing and the involved syntax, which is noticeably different from that of Urban's other letters, I suspect that he was. Quite possibly he was a Greek or Syrian who was in Rome only during Urban's first year in office and then returned to the mysterious

~~East and its secrets. This is a fascinating little puzzle that offers us refreshing contact with the lively and complicated medieval mind.~~

~~William C. Bark is professor of medieval history, emeritus, and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. The Making of a Book~~

~~by ARNOLD E. OLDS~~

Paul Hanna was the first chairman of the Associates. Ever since, he and his wife, Jean, have been major contributors to the success of the organization. For two or three years a small group of Associates watched for the right occasion to combine an appreciation of Paul and Jean's contributions with a visit by the Associates to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hanna-Honeycomb House. The publishing by the Architectural History Foundation and the MIT Press of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: The Clients' Report, written by Paul R. and Jean S. Hanna, provided that occasion. On November 7, 1981, members of the Associates and the Stanford Historical Society gathered at the house that Paul and Jean had given to the University. 5 '" The book tells the story of the planning and building of the Hanna house. Another interesting story is that of the book itself. An exhibit, informally titled "The Making of a Book," was mounted to tell that story for the assembled Associates and Historical Society members. The exhibit, and indeed the book itself, was made possible by an amazing archival collection assembled by the Hannas. For a keepsake prepared for the November seventh event they wrote:

~~Beginning with our first encounter with Frank Lloyd Wright, we saved almost every item that had any bearing on our association with him and our house.~~

These archives consist of over 50 ring binders that fill over eight feet of shelf space. In these binders we have organized chronologically our exchange of letters, telegrams, notes, and telephone calls. We kept copies of every bill and every subcontract.

~~"See page 30 of this issue for a report of the event. The Making of a Book 2.9~~

We have over a hundred blueprints and drawings prepared by Mr. Wright and his associated architects. We have more than 200 black and white and/or color photographs by professional photographers as well as hundreds of our own in which we recorded almost every step of the construction. These archives, covering a period from 1930 to 1981. are deposited in the Stanford University Library. Microfilms of the entire collection are available through the Architectural History Foundation, New York City, and the MIT Press, Cambridge.

To selections from this archive the publishers graciously added the working materials for the preparation of the book: designer's sketches; transcripts marked for typesetting; and dummies, proofs, and press sheets, including one described by Karen Banks of the Architectural History Foundation as "big as a bedsheet." As the day of the exhibit approached, all of the pieces were assembled and ready for mounting, with one exception. No finished copies of the book had arrived! Two days before the event, the Hannas hurried to the Honeycomb House, where the exhibit was being installed, with three copies. Their authors' copies had arrived the previous afternoon. The book was a beautiful tribute to Paul and Jean's years of careful scholarship and enthusiasm.

~~Arnold E. Olds, manager of Word Graphics at Stanford, is a charter member of the Associates and the designer of Imprint. Activities of the Associates~~

~~by CARL E. McDOWELL~~

The October issue of Imprint included two articles about the Asso- ciates' Special Collections gift of the Statutes of the City of Marseilles. Harry Goff made this presentation October 9 on the occasion of the dedication of the elegant Charles and Frances Field Room in Green Library.

It was a splendid University program with several fine talks. The program by Nicolas Barker, curator of the British Library, on October 25 was another successful event. He spoke and showed slides on the topic of "The Book in Society." New members of the Associates were welcomed at a luncheon on November 7 at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club, following which they joined 450 members and friends of the Associates and the Stanford Historical Society at the Hanna Honeycomb House. This was a special occasion to honor Paul and Jean Hanna, whose new book, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: The Clients' Report, was on display together with materials pertaining to the background and the publishing of the book. The exhibit was excellently arranged by Arnold Olds, who also prepared an unusual invitation to the event in the format of an architect's plan of the house. The book is already in its second printing. Mrs. Jessie Ray and her large group of volunteers provided a fabulous reception; and Bob and Betty Lou Nordman and Don Winbigler orches- trated the difficult arrangements for busing and otherwise maneuvering so many guests during a four-and-one-half-hour span. Our deep appreciation also goes to Provost and Mrs. Albert H. Hastorf, now occupants of Hanna House, for their courtesy, patience, and endurance. Frank Buxton, a bookbinder and book collector who lives in Los An- geles, flew to Stanford on November 22 to present a talk on "You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover." He gave a lively presentation thoroughly

George Waters's camera caught some of the Associates at the Hanna house. Activities of the Associates 31 enjoyed by an audience that included members of the Hand Bookbinders of California, which cosponsored the event. During the reception afterward in the Lurie Rotunda, members and guests viewed the seventy-fifth anniversary exhibition of fine book bind- ings by the Guild of Book Workers. Those who attended the program received a keepsake that had been marbled, hand set, and printed by our board member, Robin Heyeck (the Heyeck Press). The text was taken from a Roxburghe Club reprint of a Doves Press broadside entitled "Golden Rules for the Bookbinder." On January 9, a group of Associates (regrettably limited to a busload) visited the corporate libraries at Syntex Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, and SRI International. Mark Baer, librarian for the widespread Hewlett-Packard network of technical information libraries and one of the founders of the Associates, and Byra Wreden made arrangements for the tour. Hewlett-Packard presented a fine luncheon and SRI closed the day with a reception. I can guess that each participant then did what I did—went home for a nap. We are most grateful to Nancy Baltis at Syntex, Mark Baer, Lorraine Pratt at SRI, and their assistants for the thoroughness and clarity with which they demonstrated the intricacy and value of industrial libraries. On behalf of the three corporate libraries, the Associates presented (at luncheon) to Bela Gallo, director of the J. Hugh Jackson Library, Stan- ford Graduate School of Business, a copy of the new Dun & Bradstreet publication Billion Dollar Directory: America's Corporate Families. Applicants for the tour far exceeded the capacity of one bus. The proposal to arrange one or more additional tours is under consideration.

Members may be assured that such a tour is stimulating and educational. As of this writing, other events on the Spring schedule included: The January 17 event on the Government Documents Department at Green Library, prepared by Carol Anne Turner (director of the department), Roger Freeman (Hoover Institution), Don Fehrenbacher (Depart- ment of History), and Clive Liston (Technology Licensing Department). 32 Carl E. McDowell

On February 7, a talk by Dr. Lola Szladits, curator of the Berg Collec- tion at the New York Public Library, describing the history and some of the contents of that collection. A talk on March 14 by Robin Heyeck of the Heyeck Press on "Fine Printing in the Bay Area," followed by an exhibit of fine press materials. The Associates' annual meeting April 25, including a talk by Peter Stansky, Field Professor of History at Stanford and chairman of the De- partment of History.

A tour of Jasper Ridge Biological Reserve on May 9, followed by a box lunch in Stauffer Court, Hoover Institution, and a lecture by John H. Thomas, professor of biological sciences, in Stauffer Auditorium. Profes- sor Thomas will print a keepsake for those attending the program. After the lecture there will be a reception and a botanical exhibition in Lurie Rotunda, Green Library. A tour of Jack London country May 22-23. The Associates' annual picnic June 6 at the Atherton estate of Marron and Betty Kendrick.

~~Carl E. McDowell is program chairman of the Associates.~~

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