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SlanfordUn^ersity Libraries ||ii3lS&,„, 25 778 923 Frank Lloyd Wright Collection Gift of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna Stanford University Libraries Frank Lloyd Wright Collection Gift of Professor and Mrs Paul R. Hanna "•,,, >* "»; , Stanford University Libraries • •. ;• jV.-^ "• . ,! • . ''.- '. '*•; Vr 1- . , t. 3^^vSy-i ARCHIVES FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT^S HAIMNA - HONEYCOMB HOUSE introduction to microfilm series 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. Circa 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' interest in the project, an evaluation by the the clients, and many related aspects, 2. 18^ sketches and drawings (mostly blueprints) by Frank Lloyd Wright, consultants, and the hann)\s. 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. (1) These microfilms are copyright ©1981 by the Archi- tectural History Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The letters^ notes, drawings, and telegrams by Frank Lloyd Wright and letters from the office of Frank Lloyd Wright are copyright ©1981 by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. All rights reserved, Permission in writing to reproduce any part of these microfilms must be obtained from the publishers, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, or from Stanford University. 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--1o3pp.--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. (2) 760001 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HANNA- HONEYCOMB HOUSE VOLUME 39 January^ 1976 Through December^ 1975 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/fllwhhh39unse OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFiCi; MEMOi<ANUo> 760002 Date: January 4, 1976 To Edward E. Shaw Daryl H. Pearson From Subject: Hanna-Honeycomb House Herewith is original of December 21, 1976 letter from Professor Rex Slack to Professor Hanna, together with Paul's note to me of December 30. Pursuant to our conversation of today, I assume you will timely contact Professor Slack and let him know the answer to his inquiry. Thanks very much. / ^^jA D'^ryl H. Pearson cc: Professor Paul R. Hanna ^ G/§) 760003 <c^ A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Telephone {03) 403-1581 ^^2 Mr. Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place No. 20 Stanford, California 94305 January 9, 19 76 RE: your letter of 1/4/76 and 5/14/75 U-PH-1218 Dear Mr. Hanna, Thank you very much for your letter of January 4th, 1976. With regard to your letter of May 14, 1975, paragraph No. 1, I am planning to take your residence with the Mossberg's in my GA series, but it is not scheduled in this year. When I issue a book of F.L. Wright's, I used to have a talk with the Foundation about text writer. I will mind about Mr. John Hill as a writer when the publication talk will be held with the Foundation. And as for the paragraph No. 2, I will publish sometime such magazine and plan to have your article in it as a client. But this scheme has not yet carried out. About the paragraph No. 3 and 4, I think you had better to publish your book with one of American publishers. I will try my best to supply your necessary photos as a photographer. As I said in my former letter, I do not intend to charge you at all. I am happy to be able to help you. So you need not send me the sample of publisher- auther contract. Separately I sent you today the Global Interior #9, HOUSES BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I, one copy by airmail. Your residence will be in next Global Interior #10, HOUSES BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT II with other 25 residences. If it come out, I will send you soon, With best regards, Sincerely yours, Yukio Futagawa YF/kk 760004 January 19, 1976 U Professor Masami Tanigawa 7-11 #107 Seta 4- Chone Setagaya-ku y Tokyo, Japan 158 Dear Professor and Mrs. Tanigawa: Thank you so much for sending the booklet con- I j j !' taining sketches and listings of John Howe's work. We were delighted to sec how much Mr, Hov/e has done during the years intervening between his work on Honeycomb and the present, I hope you will give John —s our warmest regards. U I We received two copies of the Meiji Hura booklet, I have given one copy to Mr, Canty, Editor of the A, I, A, Journal, and have sent the second copy to Mr, Massy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I suppose that the restoration of the Imperial w. Hotel at Meiji Mura is moving along towards completion. When it is completed I suppose there will be photographs available to shov; us what has been accomplished. Please give our regards to our friends in Tokyo, Cordially, Paul R, Hanna PRH:bl 760005 January 19, 1976 Mr. Yukio Futagawa A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan Dear Mr. Futagawa; Thank you for your welcome letter of January 9. I am now very clear on how we shall proceed on publication. We are pleased that you will publish our home (along with Mossbergs) in your GA series. We hope your international architecture journal can be launched soon. We wish you every success. Your advice will be taken seriously on publishing the volume my wife and I are writing about Frank Lloyd Wright and our Honeycomb home. We will negotiate a contract with either an American publisher or a European publisher. I hope we can get as good color press work as you do in your shops in Japan. How can we tell you which photographs we wish to use in our book? Is there anyway that we could have contact prints (proofs) of the photos you took? If we could see proofs we could tjelect the ones that would fit our text. We would ask our publisher in what form he would wish to have from you the pictures we select. We can determine these details at a later time when we get close to sending our manuscript to the press. In the meantime we would appreciate advice from you on the best method for selecting those photos we wish to use from among the many which you took. We are very grateful for your kindness in permitting us to use your photos in our book. We shall, of course, acknow- ledge you as the photographer of our volume and protect you with copyright. Cordially, Paul R. Hanna PRHtbl 7600C6 «. ^v January 19, 1976 Mr. William Allin Storrer 143 South Aurora Street Ithaca, New York 14850 Dear Bill; We enjoyed your letter. Delighted that you are near closing with a publisher for your book. If we can help on the details for our home as you prepare the text, let us know and, within the limits of time and talent, we will assist, Futagawa and we have just reached agreement on our cooperative work, I am having a copy of his last letter to us enclosed for you, I do not know what equipment or film he used. He had several cameras with him. We are pleased that conditions have improved for you at Ithaca College, This improvement will be very impor- tant in applying for a position in a western institution, Stanford has done well for its faculty in housing. We are very happy in our new condominium. Come and be our guest in our new guestroom. We also got from Tanigawa the booklet on John Howe. Excellent work by John, Keep us informed on book and job progress. Cordially, Paul R, Hanna PRH:bl End, 760007 ^V'V* January 19, 1976 r^ Mr. Edgar Tafel 74 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10011 Dear Edgar: I am wondering how your publication on Frank Lloyd Wright is progressing. We certainly want to pur- chase a copy when it is av^-ilable. Jean and I have assembled a great deal of material, arranged it, cata- logued it, etc. We are about ready to start intensive research and writing. Our book will be essentially a rp^, story of our client relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright, Fortunately, ^r. Futagawa, whom you probably know as the outstanding Japanese architectural photo- i ; grapher, has spent some time with us photographing '" Honeycombs I think his pictures, which will illustrate our volume, will be extraordinary. I am sure you have 7 seen some of the publications in his series "Global Architecture" or "Global Interiors". I v/as just sent a small volume by my friend Tanigawa of Japan which shows the buildings which have been designed and in most instances, built by John Howe.