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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. 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.

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.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HANNA- HONEYCOMB HOUSE

VOLUME 39

January^ 1976

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December^ 1975 Digitized by the Internet Archive

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OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFiCi; MEMOi 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

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, acknowledge 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 important 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

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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 purchase 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. As you probably know, John is lecturing at Tanigav/a's University this academic year. I was much impressed witli what the book shows of John's work.

We are eager to see you if you come to the west coast. Please let us know so that we may have you visit us in our new condominium.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna Sr. Research Fellow PRH:bl ARCHITECTURE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

UNDER PRESERVATION \2\

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Mr, William G. Sweeney 1374 Minnesota Avenue San Jose, California 95125

Dear Bill:

We were delighted to get your letter just before Christmas, It was good of you to write concerning our gift of our Frank Lloyd Wright home to Stanford, We are expecting to get the endowment for the ^''isiting University Professorship and the endowment for Honeycomb sometime this summer. Eventually there will be a public ceremony and if so I hope you will attend,

I have followed your career as Dean of the School of Education at San Jose during the past two decades, I know you have contributed much to building up that institution.

It would be good to see you and if you come to Stanford Campus please give me a phone call in advance so that we can have a visit.

Cordially,

Paul R, Hanna Sr, Research Fellow PRH:bl n 6 600 9 - A I

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THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 760011 STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94303 ^

Paul R, Hanna Mitchell Place, No. 20 Stanford, CA 94305 Dear Professor Hanna:

I have spoken with Franklin Gilliam about appraising both the Frank Lloyd Wright material and the art material. He will probably be back on campus this month and will examine the above-mentioned material then.

If you are not available when Franklin is here is it possible for a secretary to let him into your Hoover office?

My apologies for the delay in getting an evaluation of your gifts, I was under the impression Mr. Gilliam saw your Wrightiana when he was last at Hoover and I was completely unaware of the material in the Art Library, It all seems cleared up now except for the actual appraisal by Mr. Gilliam and that will be taken care of the next time he is on campus. Thank you for your patience. Yours tmily,

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Thomas W, Leonhardt Gift & Exchange Librarian

TWL:eh t Presentation to Faculty Women's Club _ 2/6/76 760012 Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect - Humanist Jean and Paul Hanna

1. Jean 3 minutes Response to Introduction

2. Paul 7 minutes How and \Taliesin on way to Pullman

3. Jean 5 minutes Trading Columbia for Stanford Pullman to Stanford

Paul visiting professor - summer 19 34 ^ Paul asked to join Stanford faculty 'Two tolccfgamG p^orie ccv.ti'S Left for Stanford, June 19 35 Stopped at Taliesin enrouto to discuss plans Arrival at Palo Alto 4. Paul IS minutes Beginnings at Stanford

' (^xrrival of first plans l'\^i^ , /'» ^ It ,

^{Finding building site (Wilbur, Roth, Willis ) Pi es Building First Stage (gen. contractor, sub- « contracting; problems) Copper roof,

5. Jean 7 minutes Working v;ith Wright. Anecdotes.

iQ^& /q^n I 9 4 ( 6. Paul 12 minutes Second Stage, Third Stage, Fourth Stage Hobbyshop, Guesthouse, storeroom Remodelling Brick retaining v/alls Garden house and pool (Urn from Tokyo) I, A. A, Placquing house y "*— °4niTtSito T^t'"^'*^^^*^^^'^ iz-nnn,r pioe «^_CX.aave last s:lide oiv««CFee«i)

^. Jean 5 minutes Mr. Wright — Plumanist 2 quotes (universities and democracy)

8. S^ <^)n. Frank Lloyd Lecture for Faculty Women's Club 2/6/76 ^ 760013 Paul 7 minutes .

It is difficult to be sure how and why Honeycomb started.

Perhaps it had its roots in our childhood spent in rural

Minnesota where we roamed over the fields and hills, enjoying

the freedom and the beauty of the outdoors. We returned,

reluctantly, to conventional houses that shut us off from

our cherished open space. We recall so vividly the con-

suming urge to finish the indoor task in order to be free

again to enjoy the sunshine and the starlight. Surely

these childhood memories fed our desire to dwell, someday,

in a house that would enrich our lives by removing the

restrictive opaque walls that shut out the sights, sounds,

smells, and touch of nature.

We were young faculty and staff members at Columbia

University when, in 19 30 we c ame upon an atticle in the

New York Times reporting on the Fran k Lloyd Wright .lectures

at Princeton University. i.V^e secured ji volume .and sat up

all night reading and reading to each other the chapters on

Modern Architecture . Here are typical quotatjAions that deeply moved us

8 Principle is the safe precedent . * The working of a principle is the only safe g«r.©Geae££^'^ *Form is organic only when it is natural to materials and natural to function * An organic form grows its structure out of conditions as a plant grows out of soil. Botli unfold similarly from within * All form in an organic architecture responds and unfolds to man-light or human imagination as the form entrusted to the seed unfolds and responds to the sunlight. * An inner-life principle is a gift to every seed, "m ^ .^-^.^ o An inner life principle is also necessary for ^600i.4 every idea of a good building * Simplicity, when organic/ is a spontaneous, inevitable result * Simplicity and style are both consequences, never causes * Specific purpose is the qualifying aim of all creation * Growth is a process of becoming; decay is no less * From the ground up is good sense for building. Bev;are of from the top down *Form is made by function but qualified by use. Therefore form changes with changing conditions. The last analysis is never made * All forms stand prophetic, beautiful, and forever insofar as they were in themselves truth enibodied. They become useless only when forced to seem and be what they are not and cannot be. * Creation never imitates. Creation assimilates. The

creature immitates and simulates . End quotes

By morning we ^fere convinced that Mr. Wright had expr ressed what we had felt for a long time but had not been able to articulate. V7e v;ere moved to write a fan letter to Mr. VJright thanking him for his beautiful statement of a philosophy not only of architecture but of life in general.

Much to our delight, Wright responded and asked us to visit liim in his VJisconsin home, Taliesin. In the summer of 19 31 we drove to Minnesota and routed ourselves th'^ough

Wisconsin, hoping that Mr. Wright v/ould not have forgotten his generous invitation.

The Wrights and the Fellov/ship welcomed us warmly and

we spent 24 hours listening to Mr. Wright , absorbing the spell of that lovely rural home and getting to know how

Wright and the architectural fellov/ship worked. Upon leawing, we timidly asked Mr. Wright if he '^ ^o^ld someday design a house a for us. His answer was a welcome^ "Yes."

During the following 3 years, Mr. Wright came frequently to New York City to lecture and to exhibit his work. We were able to entertain him in our small one-room apartment at

Columbia and expand ^our ideas f o^ our Dream House as we then called it.

Jean — tell about our move from New York to Stanford 760016 Jean minutes - 3. 5 ij^ -^ '\i^ ilUA' t^'nyti^^

' ^f After a delightful summer dX rui liuei ny we drove South and stopped ^M V/ to have a look at Stanford University, an institution of which we had heard some conflicting reports. We found Stanford a delight-WiL- place in an exquisite setting, quite a paradise compared with New York City.

When i«**BPPr, Parl^l was invited by Stanford to be a visiting professor for th^ summer of 1934, we were delighted. I was not able to accompany him due to three small obligations that ranged between 4 months and three ydars. But I did go out at the end of the session 'AnA met some delightful people, î»oiudi-rig"t±te-~ftiig«trds, and had an opportunity to drool further over this university. We. #~ î had no thought bi4t,that the siunmer 's, apppijitmesfitliWas lust that ' es^%i^ ' a summer appointmeît. Consequently when-MT early "irari injl nf 19 35 îf^MF'^ a r y 1 mqtH—^yppj^-^Tt^rTwi -h an . inv^-tatipn Jtdf Paul to join the Stanford faculty, we were n^npniyhclwed. yie. spent ten minutes discussing the proposition and then s»««t two telegrams ; one to Stanford accepting with pleasure; the other to Mr. Wright, saying: We are going to Stanford; start d&aasgxax», A And so, in June of 19 35, we left for Stanford with our ears ringing with comments of our Columbia Colleagues that ranged from: You are destroying yourselves professionally - to

;\ f lots of you'll be sorrys for our reckless abandonnjen^t of the East A

and its ji « V^uv^ybe^ great cultural advantages. t t 4a y>^ '^ c^ We stopped enroute at Taliesin and spent 3 deliCi ii^uG days talking with Mr. Wright about our projected Dream House, while Mrs. Wright and the members of the establishment took ou r 3 babies .

And so v/e arrived in Palo Alto in t^e middle of June and fell in love all over again with the cbnvjytihg village of Palo Alto tAiA.f'f^^^ its «ipi& souls and the rolling foothills of the Campus.*^ vis ^ rro

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5. Jean 7 minutes Working with Mr. Wright - U '^*2.'^vK ^fS / ^^^^^t /

Ilr. Wright was a joy to work with. As long as we didn't destroy the essential unity of the structure, he was mo\ willing to listen to any ideas we had. He aiso v/as not above accepting and using some ^^^ of our ideas. We had a little private joke. If he particularly liked ^.fftv^T*^ aft..4d«a, he would say, "That's a great idea; I'm going to use it in my next house, but I'm not going to give you any credit. We'd laugh and laugh. Who needed credit? I suppose there must be hardly a sharper thorn in an architect's flesh than to have a client who is just a :ûstrated would-have-been architect herself. I could be and was quite adamant at times , about certain architectural circumstances I felt were essential. Mr. Wright never belittled our ideas, though he occasionally would say, "Very well, HMpiiiMBr; if you must have it, you must have it; but you won't like it." More often than not, he was correct, and then — oh the joys of ripping out. One thing Mr. Wright taught us, but good: a thoughtful person doesn't accept a house from his architect and then sit in it that way, forever. A house should c^nge with the chair\ing needs and ideas of its owners. This philosophy was meat and drink to me. I was a tremendous success as a ripper-outer I At one time, friend Husband said, "It's a good thing the kitchen sink is bolted down or you'd have that out." This was befoire^ the time when, returning from Washington unexpectedly, he found "fi'is wife, with the help of two small sons and the gardener, had removed a sunken tub and deposited it on the back terrace. I was merely exeifcising my privilege^^ôf shifting the locale of the laundry. There was anothe5.^JJltWJVe liater, but when, Paul .discovered I was contemplating a MuriHi move, I believe'^ll^'beganbelieve'^^t-^Segan to contemplacontemplate the idea of giving up our life-interest in Honeycomb. There's only so much whimsy a man can take. Speaking of tubs. We had 3 sunken bathtubs in the house. These were the object of endless more or less ribald jokes. I assure ^^^® ^,njt>f-is"«U^°^' sunken tubs were not, as supposed by many, a manifestation *°^ ^^^ Hannas*^ efoticiaMn — wpops^— v/roîg r Hvc^'^ word— .«xotica«Bi; there Wr was a very practical reason î'fuhken tub' takes up less body space \ than a floor standing tub. In the 25 years v/e v/ere into the sunken tub bit, we had only one accident, but that was a catastrophe that aged me 10 yeaRS in 10 seconds. A section of the Faculty Women's Club v;as meeting in our home. As I \7as bidding my guests goodbye, I heard a terrible thump followed by, "Why, Miz Jones, you're in the bathtub I" I cleared the 4 steps in one leap and found, to my horror, the v/ife of the head of the English department doubled up in the bathtub. We managed to get her out. My hands were trembling so I could hardly feel for broken bones. In tears, I tried to express my shock and apologize'HEor'liiy' bathtub. But Mrs. Jones cut me off saying, "Nonesense, Jean. I'm the one to apologize for my nosy curiosity. I wanted to see where the light came from, stepped back, and there was the tub. Nothing hgrt but my pride." That was the beginning of an everlasting friendship betv/een Lucille and me.

Then there wece the beds, shaped to conform to the angles of

the walls. 1 dream of repe truly cherished. A vdry dear, serious little lady was ^fy^^\nq^\ around the house. She came to ma and said. "Mrs. Hanna,^I don't mean to criticize, but I am deeply concerned about these beds. I greatly fear your children may develop serious curvatures of " the spine . li^jw n, iQ'Lipiiiy-'iu-Uitim. Happily, not.^(5» j ,. Uu £. u}s

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Jir, Jean 5 minutes Mr, Wright — Humanist ' "'"^ '''': - ''i ^' *^\\ X We have spent the time speaking about Wright,. the architectAy\S I would like to take a few minutes to present the humanist. _,--~- uir»1

all occasions (to corn a phrase) . We spent many delightful hours in dialogue with rir. Wright. He was beautifully articulate, and had a vocabulary that often sent iiie to the dictionary to discover if there really were such a word. There was. \;^ consoled jmytfciif Cnx^jjf*'^

with the ^ficowlLii^ii^ . that not one person in SO thousand would know the word, much less its correct use. Mr. Wright had very pronounced opinions on almost any subject — as what intelligent person doesn' t? X-yt'-^would like to close with two quotations. The first is on the subject of universities. Quote.

1, "Today's universities are not universities, they are mass products by specialists of specialists in book knowledge, A university should function as the vision of its society. A true university seeks to deepen and preserve such ideals and under- lying principles as are organic; must be the very life-line of the society it exists to serve. A true university should definitely be related to social progress by well-equipped technical research. Vocation should be no feature of a true university. Only those who gave proof of inner growth in some one of the qualities or depart- ments of human life should be accepted in any university, either I ^r-^-CC^^^''°^<«^ ^ Vjy'i ^a^c^ yo #» '^V. » to enlighten others or to study." .,:^^^^^!- ^ ( U

Mr. Wright was^ nothing if not a passionATE American, or Usonian as he preferred./ He suffered at the inadequacies that at times befell his country, Jwrk much as a parent grieves when a child fails to live up to his potential. Hear this:

"We have not learned to practice, much less defend, what we call, without real comprehension, democracy. Our own great nation is a neglected backyard from coast to coast. We must add up these new forces of vast machine and money power which we of the West have recklessly released upon the world — make both powers go to work for humanity; go to work first for the integrity of ourselves. Then, when our feet are firmly planted well under us —work with the world, not upon it,"

9, Jean and Paul ^'HiOiiiUMAfee ThaialiTB to .au^i^nce ^^.Y^'^^'^-^^^^^^L^* 760019

A.DA. 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

Febuary 6, 1976 RE: U-PH-1239

Dear Mr. Hanna,

Thank you for your letter of January 19, 1976. Since I believe Mrs, Hanna and you are preparing for your book about Residence Hanna, I intend to chose my photos, which took the completed. Residence Hanna in 1975 and 1976.

Then I would like to know how many photos you needs as the inside view or outside view. And I am now planning to visit you again this early summer to photograph again.

After my selection, if you teach me publisher, I will send the* prints to your book publisher.

Waiting for your letter, I am

Yours sincerely.

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Mr. Paul R. Hanna 737 Frenchman's Road Stanford, Calif. 94305

Febuary 9, 1976 RE: U-PH-50397

Dear Mr. Hanna,

Today I got phone-call from Mr. Tanigawa about your order of two (2) copies of each publication of Frank Lloyd Wright. He said you had not received those copies yet on the phone. As our invoice of U-PH-5039 7, we have already sent on Oct, 31, 1975 by seamail.

I hope you have already gotten them and enjoy our publications. But if you did not received still now, please confirm us. We will check post office.

Thank you for your attention, I am

Yours sincerely.

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Dear Mr. Hanna:

Because your membership will soon be due for renewal, I am writinq to urqe your continuance with the TRUST.

Much has been accomplished in the last year through your support and that of your fellow members. But much more needs to be done.

As the Bicentennial celebration approaches, we at the NATIONAL TRUST are actively pursuing an even more aggres- sive role to save our country's historic landmarks. The best way to obtain results is to create greater public awareness of the problem and to provide imaginative and practical alternatives to senseless destruction.

That's why the NATIONAL TRUST needs your continuing membership support now more than ever. As you complete the renewal form below, I wonder if you would consider becoming an Associate member for the coming year?

I look forward to receiving your membership renewal.

Sincerely,

Aivic* ML^ Jameg/Biddle President

P.S. Your contribution in any amount is tax deductible. OFFICE MEMOPANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM • STANFORD UNIVERSITY • OFFICE MEMORANDUM

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Mr, Yukio Futagawa A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co., Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Futagawa

We are pleased that you will be returning to Stanford in early summer. My wife and I will be in Alaska from June 19 to July 1. We hope you come before or after these dates.

It is very difficult to tell you which of your photographs we would hope to use in our book. We have a suggestion. If you could bring with you when you come to Stanford, proof prints of the photos you took, then you and we, could make a selection of those we think we should use. You may have a better plan for selection, but at the moment we suggest selecting from the proofs you might bring with you.

Sincerely yours.

Paul R. Hanna

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March 24, 1976

Mr, M. Goto 430 Hlyoshi Honcho Kohoku-Ku Yokahama 223 JAPAN

Dear Goto?

colleague. I.-,/? Professor Paul Turner has just published a book on the architecture of Stanford University. Knc^^ing of your interest in architecture, ^ ^^^^^'^ ^'^^ written an article forou?^iMSlT?;?Stor our IMPRINTS andT^7' when it is off the press, I will send you a copy.

We were pleased to ^ receive from George MLzota, Clipping from a the Japan Times re the restoration of the ^^ ^^^^ii Village. The photo shows excellentl^rl'^'l^V'^^lrestoration L of the front of the hotel. I have written today to the editor of the Journal and of the A I A to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, closing en- a copy of that news story. People in the will be U.S. delighted to know of this project. Jean and want to return I to Japan to visit Meiji Village again when It is more complete.

Jean and I send you, your wife, and your daughteruyxii-«^ our warm regards.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna PRHsbl bcc: R. Briggs P. Turner W. Storrer G, Mizota D. Pearson 760027

March 24, 1976

Mr, James C. Massey, Director Historic Properties National Trust for Historic Properties 740 Jackson Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004

Dear Mr. I^assey:

I cun enclosing a clip from Japan re restoration of the Imperial Hotel at Meiji

Village. I know you will be interested.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna

PRHtbl End. 760028

March 24, 1976

Mr. William A, Storrer 143 South Aurora Street Ithica, New York 14850

Dear Bill:

Your January and your February letters await my reply. The enclosed clip from Japan stimulates me to write you. I am pleased that the Imperial Hotel restoration is on schedule.

We would love to see you in June. We hope it is before mid-June. Jean and I leave June 19 for a two week trip by ship to Alaska. Come early in June, please.

We will be glad to assist in any way on your treatment of Hanna Honeycomb. We have complete blueprints.

Putagawa's English is almost impossible to understand. I am enclosing a copy of a recent letter to illustrate v/hat I mean. But, why not try to correspond with him?

Futagawa may be untrustworthy by our western standards. Partly due to language. We have our fingers crossed, confidentially.

Reid Addis has not contacted me recently. I do not know his plans.

You will be interested in Paul Turners new book -

The Founders and the Architects ; The Design of Stanford

University . Dept. of Art. Stanford University. 1976.

We are awaiting your schedule for a Stanford visit.

Cordially,

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April 12, 1976 RE: GI #10

Dear Mr. & Mrs, Hanna,

Thank you for your co-operation for our new Publication GI #10. A copy has been already sent by surface separately from this letter. We send our respect and thankfulness with it. We do hope you like the issue.

We remain

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The Campaign i C\i iJ^^^B^H for Stanford

May 25, 1976 mrn

Dear Professor and Mrs. Hanna:

Mr. Briggs has advised us that there is essentially nothing new from NISSAN, U.S.A., except the following: the gift will be from the parent company in Japan, rather than from NISSAN, U.S.A., as we had anticipated. No reason was given

Further, Mr. Briggs learned from Mr. Katayama that the Chairman in Japan, Mr. Kawamata, is personally supportive of the project.

Personal regards,

Henry P. Organ Associate General Secretary

Professor and Mrs. Paul Hanna 20 Pearce Mitchell Place Stanford, California 94305

301 Encina Hall Stanford University Stanford California 94305 (415) 328-8880

760033

RECEIPT FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY LOANED TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY

June 7th , 1976

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY hereby acknowledges that it has received from

PAUL R. HANNA and JEAN S. HANNA the following listed personal

property, presently located at Honeycomb House, 737 Frenchman's

Road, Stanford, California, which property has been loaned to

Stanford University by said PAUL R. HANNA and JEAN S. HANNA:

I. Living Room ^' o^

^' - ' ^Sf^-i/^^'^ ' 1 Ancient Guatemalan woven textile used as wall hanging ^ ^ \\ 30" X 30" " ~ 1 Korean stone chess set with box-case board 7^ ' ^rt^sc*^*® '/ ^f King - 6" high ^^^' 1 - "Sunburst" by Sullivan. From Garrick Theater /' 27" square

.so3»'C-*^ 1 - Bronze sculpture by Mestrovic Dyt)nysus /A ' r^^^ 24" X 18" X 9"

1 - Pair Iranian Harem Lamps, brass "'^^ 46" high, 15" diameter ^oO.

- Chinese teak *'' 1 and rosewood hexagonal coffee table Oa/) and six stools. Designed by Hannas and executed in Hong Kong, 1953

lO ^-^^jjk-i^' 1 ~ Ancient Japanese Shogi Chess set in glass and .^ 6^ . jVaJP®^ boxed case. 400 years circa i(J

1 - English Chess set of ivory, inlaid board by Hanna /^ O <-' under plexiglass cover ^'eaX ^roipeJrVa W^H Itojo C>^ l^ems A

List of personal property of PAUL R. HANNA AND JEAN S. HANNA on loan to Stanford University (continued)...

1 - Indonesian carved wooden figures M yft^^*^ Male and female Bali

»» 1 - Indonesian carved wooden female figure "Desolation" / oo

1 - Indonesian curved wooden male and female 7i *

4 - Sofa pillows covered with Peruvian textiles

II. Foyer

f,5*^^' - Stone Buddha, head on metal stand N.E. Thailand Head 17-1/2" high, stand 36" «» - Sculpture; "Inspiration" India 12" x 12" 7C

- Hexagonal flower pot. Wood with silver inlay Td. Thailand (contains artifical plant)

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2 - •^^> Hand woven sofa pillows r * »* * ^^umA 1 - Glass bowl (blue) with 2 glass balls :io. 1 - ese hanging mask xC »» Japan id - 4 Assorted pottery bowls 'id.

4 - Chinese porcelain candle bowls with covers Ho. I f

1 - Pinya dinner or tea cloth (in linen chest) 12' St ^ ^ 1 - Table pad (in linen chest) 10' 2i

d*- 2 - White table cloths (in linen chest) 8' lb

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10 - Abaca table mats & 10 napkins (Philipines) ^0 • p^ C,^ \,ol

7 - Assorted picnic cloths SL^ '

1 - Upright Hoover vaccuutn (on temporary loan) Y"C.'tUT'/\ "e.^ V* "nQ>Ty^Ot.S

IV. Garden

1 - Antique bronze Buddha - seated j^jfy r' i Bangkok, 20" high x 14" wide

1 - Japanese stone lantern, ancient. Not cut but natural stone. Found in Yokohama in 1957. 36" X 36" (4 pieces) *

Edward E.' Shaw, Associate Provost on behalf of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University

-3- , ^ 760036 ^w A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Telephone {03) 4031581 ~2

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Hanna Mitchel Place No. 20 Stanford, California 94305 U.S.A.

June 8, 19 76 RE: reply to your letter of May 2 7/76

Dear Mr. & Mrs, Hanna,

Have you received the copy we sent yet? If not, would you kindly write to me again? On receipt of your letter, I will dispatch another copy to you. I am sorry for some sort of trouble which occurred on the way of delivery.

As for Mr. Futagawa's schedule, he is now travelling Europe, He will be back to New York at the beginning of July, As I am going to send your message to our New York office, you shall hear from Mr, Futagawa in early July.

I am

Sincerely yours.

M. Sekiya A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd,

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760037

June 10, 1977

Comiaittee for the Preservation of Architectural

Records , Inc 15 Graraercy Park South New York, New York 10003

Gentlemen:

In your NEWSLETTER for March 1977, you indicate that a copy of Technology &

Conservat ion , by Jarren A. Seamans is available.

I am enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope for mailing the magazine.

Sincerely yours.

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

PRH:GB Enclosure IS 760038 HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE ^^^b^bb,.,^

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6/12/76

Mr. John Sergeant Architect School of Environmental Studies University College London, England

Dear Mr. Sergeant:

Yesterday we were able to purchase your book: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses . We spent several hours reading the text and studying the illustrations. We will be spending many more hours with the volume.

We cannot express, adequately, our enjoyment and our approval of what you have accomplished. You were so right to elect to fill in a void existing in the literature on F. LI. W_ dealing with his 19 36-on work. Your balanced interpretation of this brilliant later period will be recognized as the bench mark of Wright's Usonian Houses.

My wife and I have organized 5 file drawers of documents dealing with our Hanna-Honeycomb house here at Stanford. We have ex- changes of correspondence, telegrams, rough sketches of details by both Wright and ourselves, over 100 blueprints with which the house was constructed, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, etc. We are re«ily to write a carefully documented book on our experiences as clients in building with F.Ll.W. and living in one of his masterpieces. Futagawa, the Japanese architectural photographer, has spent time with us preparing pictorial studies of the house, and his pictures will be added to those taken by Stoller, Born, and ourselves. We plan a deluxe volume to be published in late 1977 or early 1978. In our volume, we hope you will give us permission to quote from your excellent text.

We have given the Hanna-Honeycomb house to Stanford University. We are attaching a University-prepared document which details the future use of the residence. We have verbal assurance that the funding will be forthcoming in a month or so. We will send you news releases if and when these anticipated events take place.

When next you come to California, please be our house guest. Again our gratitude to you for a magnificent study of Mr. Wright. Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow 760039

A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co.. Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Telephone {03) 403-1581 ^^2

STATEMENT (BILL)

Sold to: Date: June 15, 19 76 Mr. Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place No. 20 Stanford, Calif. 94305 U.S.A.

Invoice No. Date Amount Balance U-PH-50397 Oct. 12, '75 ¥10,110 Service charge ¥360

Total ¥10,470

Please pay above total amount in Japanese yen. Your due date : IMMEDIATELY

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Wates House 22 Gordon Street London WC1 H OQB Telephone 01 - 387 7050 22 June 1976

Professor Paul Ro Hanna, 20 Mitchell Place, Stanford California 9^305, U.S.A.

Dear Professor Hanna,

Thank you so much for your letter and its kind appreciation of my booko No reviews have yet appeared and I was very heartened to read your (the first unsolicited) reactions,.

Your project to publish a thorough, documented account of the building of your home is exactly what Wrightian study needs© I fear I cannot disguise my impatience with the restrictive attitude of Taliesch to the Archives, which promotes obscure and dubious scholarship, in lack of factS p Your volume sounds as though it should be magnificent and I should like to make an early order for a copy; though rising book-costs and the falling pound sterling will probably mean I must move to the States to afford iti Of course you may quote from my work, it would be an honour.

Having tried to stop the publication of ray book, Mrs. Wright is pressing for my surrender of all copyright on all my drawings - the results of patient measuring and 250 hours of drawings, The path of modern historical research is a thorny one.

When you have had more time to study it, I would welcome your reactions to my study of Wright's political and social viewso At the time we met to discuss them it seemed inappropriate, and it would be fascinating to know how your joint position did or did not coincide with the 1930 's radical milieuo

Thank you again for your letter and your handsome invitation for me to be your house guesto

Cordially,

John Sergeant June 24, 1976 760043 Dear Dr. & Mrs. Hanna:

Thank you very much for your letter of June 14 as well as for your letter of March 24 and the enclosed book on the architecture of Stanford University. I particularly appreciated Professor Turner* s book.

I am yet to see John Sergeant's new book on Frank Lloyd Wright...! doubt it will ever be put on sale m Japan. 1 would very much like to have it provided that 1 will be able to re- imburse you for- it. Many times in the evening I still glance thru some of the books on Prank LPvo Lloyd V/right that you have kindly given me. cd ro rf ^ I went to a O CP- A couple of weeks ago my family and Cd CM in Mejiro to see the exhibit on rr; cd Jiyu Gakuen • •H handicraft work which included ray mother's • O a a chance to pri S S^ rugs and textiles. It gave me O see Mr. Wright's work, but I was disheartened -^ CD •H the building is decaying and O by the fact that cd rH Endo and Ph Gj cd deteriorating fast. I ran into Raku H O what he thought of the partial re- • Ph I asked him X, Meiji CO storation of the Imperial Hotel at ^ iH n^ all right but it s S H Ih Village, and he said, "It's (U O Structurally g far from the old Imperial Hotel. O CO too, it's different." • +=> d ?^ H -p P s CO this I will be making two trips to the U.S. summer, but both times I will have to skip San Francisco. Both senior and junior meet- ings of the Japan-California Association sponsored by SRI will convene m and around Los Angeles this year. I am still working hard on our company's gift to Stanf ord. . . it may -hnVp im RomP timp to irppic.h a nnnsensus as to whether Nissan U.S.A. ought to do it or Nissan Tokyo.

My family and I are all well. Both of my dau- ghters have just had German measles and I guess it's part of growing up. They send you their best regards.

Sincerely yours.

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Dear Mar. Sekiyas

Thank you for your letter of Jube 8. We have been in Alaska and just returned.

We appreciate your forwarding my letter to Mr. Futa- gawa in New York. We shall again welcome him to Stanford.

I enclose a Yen draft for 10,470 or $37.15. I am sorry for an apparent misunderstanding. I had assumed that the materials we received from your press were gifts from Mr. Futagawa. We received GI #10 and GA #25. The GA #25 has several photographs of our Hanna-Honeycomb House taken by Mr. Futagawa.

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Dear Mr. & Mrs. Hanna,

Thank you for your letter and cheque ¥10,470. However, I think there, is some sort of misunderstanding. Our bill statement for ¥10,470 is for our invoice, U-Ph-50397, 2 copies of GA #36 & 2 copies of GI #9. If you have already paid for those four copies, please inform us by return mail. We keep your cheque untill we receive your reply.

As you said in the letter, GI #10 & GA #25 are our gift for you for your kind co-operation. GI #10 & GA #25 have been completed with your great help and we do appreciate it.

We are ready to return your cheqeu if our bill statement is mistaken. Thank you again for your kind letter. We remain.

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Think in simples

"'"'''" Wer^n'LT' ITI^. ' ^"""^ "'"" g«'"g '"t« architecture' *'"",'' ^^""^ '' '"'^"'^ ' ^ g^^« '" Chicago in 1931 and these11 are the1 thingsf. I told him concerning ways and means • To forget the architectures of the world except as something good heu- in way and .n their times; not to go into architecture to gef a living unless he loved it as a principle at work; to beware of architectural school except as an exponent of engineering; to go into the field to see the machines and methods at work thai make modern buildings I said he should immediately form the habit of thinking "whv" concerning effects, challenge every feature, learn to distinguish the cunous from the beautiful and get the habit of analysis I told him to ''think in simples" as my old master used to say, meaning to reduce the whole to its parts. And to abandon as poison the ''""' '"'""""'"' '' ''''" g^"'"g '"to practice half- ^ITZbaked and tot takef ? l'' time to prepare - even 10 years ^"^««^«'' to make for ourselves an atmosphere which«,hi.h /r^" "^l in to Lve and work according to our own faith and feeling for na- '""^" '^'^'^ TedauTtoTheCu^r^; ""^ ^'^^ ^« «"^ "-' ^"^ es-

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July 16, 1976

Professor John Sergeant School of Environmental Studies University College London V/ates House 22 Gordon Street London WCIH OQB

Dear Professor Sergeant:

We were delighted to get your letter and your encouragement for the book we are writing. You shall receive a gift copy v/hen It is finally published. Kow about coming to Stanford to pick it up?

We are distressed to learn how much trouble you have, and are having, with the Foundation. We hear from other friends that they have similar difficulty. We hope we shall not face opposition on our effort, I have told them what we are doing and so far no negative reaction from them.

Your questions on the political climate at the Fellowship is one that has interested us for years. I recall my objections to some of the Square Papers and F.L.W.'s response. Several times when we were weekend guests he asked me to make a statement before the Sunday breakfast "seminar". He knew my views were not his on many social, political and economic matters. He welcom.ed criticism before the Fellowship and he would probe m.y presentation or define his viev;5. \

In our book we hope to deal vjith some of his views on the broader social scene and our own concurrent and divergent views. As to his philosophy on life-style and architecture, we found in him the exp^^-SBion of our own principles.

Enough of this now. We have purchased additional copies of your book. One is going to Japan to an ardent Wright fan who lives in a home designed for him by the younger Endo whose father was Wright's m.ajor Japanese partner on the Imperial and on the famous Japanese school buildings.

Be our house guest.

Cordially,

i Paul R, Hanna Emeritus Professor of Education Stanford University PRH:bl 760049 July 20, 1976

7:45 a.m.

Phone: Goto to Hanna from Los Angeles (?)

Goto and his chief returning to Japan from Los Angeles today.

Goto will be back in U.S.A. in 10 days. (East Coast)

Goto will be in Los Angeles August 4 to 8 at Century Plaza. I am to phone him to agree upon a day and time for me to see Goto in

Los Angeles.

New President of Nissan who knows little about U.S.A. or its universities.

Princeton, Michigan, and MIT have officially requested funds from Nissan. Five hundred thousand dollars already sent to MIT.

Lyman should officially write to Chairman of Nissan on one page

(or two) requesting aid from Nissan for $500,000 for Hanna-Honeycomb endowment. Letter in Japan before September 1, 1976.

Goto assures me that he is working for larger donation

(1 1/2 million) to Stanford. Goto optimistic that Nissan will give

Stanford 1/2 million for Hanna-Honeycomb.

If Stanford requests 1 million dollars for chair, this could be the object of the gift of several motor companies.

New President believes Nissan should treat all four universities alike (1/2 million already to MIT). 760050 Environment and Planning B, 1976, volume 3, pages 21 1 -224

Woof and warp: a spatial analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses

J Sergeant School of Environmental Studies, University College London, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WCIH OQB, England Received 24 July 1976

Abstract. The design of low-cost system-built housing has been one of the central preoccupations

of modern architecture. The Usonian house was Frank Lloyd Wright's answer to the problem. It was conceived within a planning grid which also determined the constructional system, and refined and developed the design discipline of the earlier Prairie houses. Wright sought to integrate this

planning geometry with the demands of the site, and it is for tliis that he is best known.

Introduction Any experience of Wright's domestic designs of the 1937-1950 Usonian period shows a remarkable sense of naturalness and ease, yet simultaneous conceptual rigor. Wright was able to conjure extraordinary spatial variety from minimal materials and dimensions. This ability was achieved through a structural vocabulary which was developed

throughout his life. It consists of a three-dimensional field of grid lines through which the solid elements of the building are slid and located, and enables the voids, covered spaces, windows, other openings, and 'no-form forms', such as terraces and car courts, to be both integral to the whole and equally meaningful. Indeed the use of

the grid allows what is implied by the perceived form, the building, to be as important

as what is explicit. It is this quality that gives the houses their perceptual richness and meaning, that endears them so much to their owners. The Usonian houses develop and simplify the methods of grid planning that were

first used in the Prairie houses. Geometric systems had an obvious fascination for Wright as can be seen in his earlier SuUivanian ornament and sketch plans. He himself

suggested in the first book o{ An Autobiography (Wright, 1932) that the origins for this were his close childhood observation of plants, crystals, and rock formations. His perception was already conditioned, however, by his kindergarten experience. Grant Manson (1953), who first pointed out the formative nature of Froebel's

precepts in Wright's early life, observed that "the child was encouraged to see that

geometric forms underlie all natural objects". Nevertheless an anomaly exists. The

configuration of geometric grids is inorganic, and their use to create an 'organic' architecture therefore presents a problem.

Early grid planning

It is impossible to overrate the importance of geometrical organization in Wright's work. The origins of this design tool have been shown by MacCormac (1968, 1974)

to lie in the 'gifts' of Froebel. As an educational pioneer, he may be compared with Maria Montessori and his toy-patterns were calculated to inculcate an appreciation of structure and expectation of unity into the world of the child. MacCormac showed that Wright derived a philosophy as well as a design discipline from the kindergarten. He had absorbed experiences with his hands and eyes, which were intended by Froebel to be an instrument in a system of education. This he based upon a "pantheistic conception of nature". Its aim was to bring about an understanding of "Natural Law" that would simultaneously develop the powers of reason and convey a 214 J Sergeant 760053

Wright made his first contact with a culture that was to fascinate him for the rest of his Hfe in the Japanese pavihon at the Columbian World's Fair in 1893. The Winslow house of that year in River Forest, Illinois, was his first mature design. It displays a simple axial, symmetrical approach, sustained within by a similarly balanced room plan. However, interior movement is circular around the central fireplace core, and the symmetry is eroded by a rear porch and the kitchen and porte cochere. The Heller house of 1897 and the Hussar house of 1899, both in Chicago, were narrow, deep, plans projected very clearly from tartan grids. However, the movement pattern of both designs was one of traversing strips in the grid between the offset symmetries of the main rooms. In the Waller project of 1898 in River Forest, Illinois, this movement pattern was used to combat a strongly axial plan which incorporated diagonals and an octagonal room—one of Wright's favourite devices of the time.

Figure 2. Cheyney house, 1904, Oak Park, Illinois. The tartan grid plan is combined with a meandering movement pattern.

Figure 3. Emil Bach house, 1915, Chicago, Illinois. The intricate movement pattern is established at the sidewalk and continues into the interior. The plan is basically that of the one-zone house of 1934. A spatial analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses ^trffflfl^ylmA54 ^15

In 1905 Wright made his first visit to Japan. It is very likely that the insistent modular organization of traditional Japanese architecture, based on the tatami floormat, reinforced his conviction of the need for grid planning. But his work after this date increasingly substituted a wandering, devious route pattern across and about the grid for the more simple progression up and down tartan strips of earlier designs.

The six turns and spiral approach to the living-room seat of the Gale house of 1909 is matched in the Robie house and other work. It is most clearly in evidence in the

Emil Bach house of 1915 in Chicago, Illinois (figure 3). This square plan design shudders under the effect of the grid upon it, indented, pier punctuated, and layered outside with trellises. The site is treated, albeit very quietly, as an obstacle course for the visitor to traverse. He is required to mount steps and negotiate garden elements that are all subterranean eruptions of the grid, before ricocheting through the overlapping spaces of the interior. By the time the spiral pull of the spaces have deposited him safely by the chimney core in the dining area, he has executed eleven turns. By the time he left Chicago, Wright possessed a planning vocabulary of crystalline organization that contained a shifting manner of movement about it. He summarized his design process:

In the logic of the plan what we call standardization is seen to be fundamental groundwork in architecture. All things in nature exhibit this tendency to

crystallize; to form mathematically and then to conform, as we may see. There is the fluid, elastic period of becoming, as in the plan, when possibilities are infinite. New effects may then originate from the idea or principle that conceives. Once

form is achieved, however, that possibility is dead so far as it is a positive creative flux" (Wright, 1928; quoted in Kaufmann and Raeburn, 1960, pages 221, 222).

Later developments

In Los Angeles Wright was confronted by sites that were almost never flat. The Millard house of 1921 in Pasadena was embedded into the side of a ravine. The Storer house of 1922 lay on the acute bend of one of the contour roads of the Hollywood Hills.

The Freeman house of 1922, perched on the side of these hills, was entered from above with bedrooms below. The Ennis house of 1923 crowned a ridge in the Griffith Park area. Wright was obliged to extend his grid downwards from the floor level of his designs (metaphorically speaking) to encounter local topography, and by this means he contrived to use terraces and retaining walls to tie his concept into the site. The vocabulary of these houses of the 1920s, of concrete block and paving, is therefore found all over the site, both above and up to 50 ft below them. At a functional level this gives easy access to the house up the contours, or from the house to the terraces. At the conceptual level it allows nature in the form of the demands of the site to penetrate Wright's geometric grid or 'field', and to coexist there with the solid elements of the house. The grid in these houses became a regular one determined by the module of blocklength horizontally and blockcourse vertically. This construction system, named 'textile block' by Wright, incorporated two-way steel reinforcement and could be given a patterned surface according to the mold used. It became a crucial stage in his struggle to unite inside space with outside space— to "break the box" as he termed it.

It marked the transition from the mature and complex geometrical organization of the Prairie houses to the freer, yet more rational ordering of space in the Usonian houses. It was at this point that the reinforced blockwork dictated a vertical module corresponding regularly with the courses and enabled Wright to open up the corner, most dramatically in the Freeman house (figure 4). Here the plate glass-to-glass corner windows run through two stories. They are framed with horizontal muntins, 214 J Sergeant 760053

Wright made his first contact with a culture that was to fascinate him for the rest of his life in the Japanese pavilion at the Columbian World's Fair in 1893. The Winslow house of that year in River Forest, Illinois, was his first mature design. It displays a simple axial, symmetrical approach, sustained within by a similarly balanced room plan. However, interior movement is circular around the central fireplace core and the symmetry is eroded by a rear porch and the kitchen and porte cochere The Heller house of 1897 and the Husser house of 1899, both in Chicago, were narrow deep, plans projected very clearly from tartan grids. However, the movement pattern of both designs was one of traversing strips in the grid between the offset symmetries of the main rooms. In the Waller project of 1898 in River Forest, Illinois ' this movement pattern was used to combat a strongly axial plan which incorporated diagonals and an octagonal room-one of Wright's favourite devices of the time.

Figure 2. Cheyney house, 1904, Oak Park, Illinois. The tartan grid plan is combined with a meandering movement pattern.

Figure 3 Emil Bach house, 1915, Chicago, lUinois. The intricate movement pattern is established at^the sidewalk and continues into the interior. The plan is basically that of the one-zone house of A spatial analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses 2-15 *ZfMKilil54tT /I

In 1905 Wright made his first visit to Japan. It is very htcely that the insistent modular organization of traditional Japanese architecture, based on the tatami floormat, reinforced his conviction of the need for grid planning. But his work after this date increasingly substituted a wandering, devious route pattern across and about the grid for the more simple progression up and down tartan strips of earlier designs.

The six turns and spiral approach to the living-room seat of the Gale house of 1909 is matched in the Robie house and other work. It is most clearly in evidence in the

In the logic of the plan what we call standardization is seen to be fundamental groundwork in architecture. All things in nature exhibit this tendency to

form is achieved, however, that possibility is dead so far as it is a positive creative flux" (Wright, 1928; quoted in Kaufmann and Raeburn, 1960, pages 221, 222).

Later developments

the concrete floormat. They were present both on drawings and on the house; they were numbered, and thus fundamental to communication with builders and others by telephone and to the intention of off-site prefabrication. Horizontal dimensions were

2 ft by 4 ft. or occasionally other subdivisions of the 8 ft by 4 ft plywood sheet and other board materials. The vertical module was 1 ft 1 in, or the distance between batten centres in the board-and-batten walls. Brick courses were laid to coincide with this dimension and were also a secondary vertical dimensioning system. The planning grid was therefore a 'cage' made up of locational 'fixes', which were in turn determined by practical considerations of building materials and process (figure 6). Both planes of the Usonian grid-field were used to locate each element in space. They determined the broad enclosure of internal and external areas and every detail of interpenetration between the two. Wright's skill lay in the perfect coordination of horizontal and vertical systems to manipulate the character of every part of this 'family' of houses. If a part of the structure rose above ceiling height, such as the chimney masses and raised clerestory roofs, it encountered the vertical grid. If a part of the concrete floormat or brick base dropped to a lower level or to deal with a falling site, it again was gripped by the module and conditioned by it. This organization of the vertical dimension is a real advance on that of the Prairie houses.

In homes which are small it gives a broad unfussy appearance and unifies disparate elements. The 1 ft 1 in band forms a 'layering' system of stripes. These control and regulate the heights of every visual element— the main structural features such as eaves and clerestory lines, planters and retaining walls, tops of doors and internal decks, and fittings such as built-in furniture, bookshelves, tables and worktops. As a result these all unite into an unobtrusive combination of calm horizontality, slipping past and apparently through brickwork and windows.

Usually there are three plans for each Usonian house. There is the floor plan.

There is a 'deck' plan at door-top height. And there is a high-level ceiling plan, which applies either to sloping ceilings or raised clerestory areas depending on whether there is a pitched or a flat roof. These plans do not necessarily coincide (figure 7). The experience of Wright's interiors is one of immediate enclosure by means of walls, although these walls are more liberating than enveloping and always slip out of view toward some unseen point. The space which a person moves through is accompanied by a contrasting system that operates above his head (figure 8). This is formed by Wright's characteristic 'decks'. These, like many of the elements of his architecture,

Figure 6. Composite elevation of standard Usonian building elements. Wright's 'weaving' concept is carried literally into the wall details. Battens butt flush with doorframes while boards lap over both. A spatial analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses 76®058 219

originated in the Prairie houses. They are flat ledges of wood construction normally about 2 ft in width and always some 6 ft 6 in above the floor. They are an important component of Wrightian interiors, since they stream throughout the chief spaces at door-top height and visually unite areas whose boundaries may be complex. They carry the lighting system— concealed lights above to give indirect light reflected from the ceihng, and recessed downlights to wash the drapes and illuminate the perimeter of rooms. They incorporate track for drapes, provide a surface for bowls or decoration— this was where Wright placed his beloved pine boughs; and integrate inside with outside.

The soffit of the deck continues above all windows to become the exterior roof overhang (figure 9). The upper-level ceilings have the property of dramatising the main spaces of the Usonians. In post-1945 houses these are often sloping and give a restful, containing

'cap' to the interior. This is similar to what is popularly known in America as a 'cathedral ceiUng'. With Wright the inner space always conforms to the exterior form;

low ceilings high ceilings

Figure 7. The Rosenbaum house, 1939, Figure 8. Hanna house, 1937, Palo Alto, Florence, Alabama. The three plan levels, California. The configuration of the house decks stepped roofs, and falling site are controlled contrasts with the floor plan below and the by the planning grid. sloping ceiling above. In most flat-roofed Usonians the raised ceilings are in the clerestory lanterns. 222 J Sergeant 760061

The pond itself, as well as the driveway, suggests a system of greater triangles, forever moving out from the house. As the model at Hillside shows, the Sundt house would have matched these geometrical abstractions with all the resources of Wright's Usonian vocabulary and would have been a spatial tour de force. Some idea of his intentions can be gained from the Richardson house, also planned in 1941, in Glen Ridge,

New Jersey, which is similar but does not have such a strong geometric relationship with its site. The elements of Usonian interiors combine to fulfill Wright's statement, "the reality of a room was to be found in the space enclosed by the roof and walls, not in the roof and walls themselves". While this duality or ambiguity was Wright's architectural aim, he was unprepared and humbled to discover it already expressed in Eastern philosophy by Lao-Tzu:

The use of clay in molding pitchers comes from the hollow of its absence. Doors and windows in a house are used for their emptiness.

Thus we are helped by what is not

to use what is (Lao-Tzu, translated by Bynner, 1944).

Although calm, a Wrightian interior is not static, and its surfaces stream away beyond view. To comprehend the space, it is necessary to move around, and the fourth dimension of time, and the observer's intellect, are involved. Wright found this concept well-described by Okakura (1906), whose The Book of Tea was a favourite with him: "True beauty could only be discovered by one who mentally completed the incomplete". Usonian plans originate with their interior, of which their exterior is an expression, and their grid discipline reaches out into the landscape. Conceptually the dividing point between inside and outside can be discounted.

Figure 10. Sundt house, 1941, project for Madison, Wisconsin. Both the modified lakeshore and driveway are conditioned by the overlapping system of the triagrid. A spatial analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses 223 7£0062

Celebration of the site

There is an evident 'fit' between the sites for Wright's Usonian houses and the geometry he selected for them. The way in which movement patterns were integrated with this enabled him to relate the user to features of the site which were often at a great distance. The sensations were manipulated in the manner of stage handling, giving glimpses of selected points such as a rock, a tree, or a mountain, and reserving the crowning view as a surprise, held back until the last. This occurred very clearly in the desert designs for the Pauson house of 1940 and for Wright's own home, Taliesin West. In the former, the house crowned a ridge and withheld dramatic views until a long stepped approach had been surmounted and the house itself entered. In the latter, the axes of the grid were fixed by Camelback, Tabletop, and Superstition Mountains many miles away. The buildings form a smaller, more special place along the contours within this larger arena, and the many twists and turns in moving about the complex are intended to heighten an awareness of both and their interrelationship. The rectilinear designs are for the most part a concession to the surroundings of urban sites and grid street plans. At times Wright used a rectangular grid in this context, but set his house at a 45° angle to the street. This had the effect of improving orientation or view, as in the Pew and Schwartz houses, and of highlighting the individuality of the home. In all cases the geometry that was chosen— even in the circular cluster and one- and two-radii organizations of such later developments as the second Jacobs house of 1942 and the Sol Friedman house of 1949— achieves an inevitability that becomes truly marvelous in homes with dramatic sites. The Palmer house of 1950, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, can stand for many others.

The design is fused with a tiny hillock in thick woods, now somewhat suburban, and is of a V form. It has a twin-core plan based on the 60° triangle, or one-sixth of the hexagon. The living area at its prow leads out to a gently falling slope, whereas the two wings, garage and bedrooms, slide along the edge of increasingly steep drops.

The V is itself wrapped around the top of the hillock and also contains a car court. From the road below, a triangular pier (of the workshop) indicates the house above, and the driveway slopes up into the receiving arms of the car court and into the 'field' of the grid. This grid has become an indissoluble part of the site and, even some distance from the house itself, it can be encountered quite informally as a small triangle of brickwork or as a light. Outside the living room a long step, made of the red-coloured concrete of the floormat, slips out of the grass and is revealed as a manifestation of the grid. The geometry of the design extends outward, not stopping at the walls of the building. Wright himself referred to this as "watching out for the ends" of a design. His treatment of house and site suggests that it would be possible to dig trenches anywhere in the site and discover the bones of the grid below ground level. His act of design grasps 'force lines' or vectors, which, although unrecognized, always existed in the site. He perceives them as natural features, draws them quietly together, and knots them inexorably with the grid. The achievement of Wright's Usonian houses in the grammar of his architecture was to develop a quite abstract geometric planning grid that ordered all the spaces and parts to the whole. The discrepancies and opportunities of nature, in the form of the features of each site, were allowed to 'invade' this grid and to carry out a dialogue

with it. The houses were the result of both. In 1957 looking back at what he had done, Wright summarized his design process:

"Kindergarten training, as I have shown, proved an unforeseen asset; for one thing,

because all my planning was devised on a properly proportional unit system. I found this would keep all to scale, ensure consistent proportion throughout the edifice, 224 •*?60063 J Sergeant

large or small, which thus became— like tapestry— a consistent fabric woven of interdependent, related units, however various.

"So from the very first this system of 'fabrication' was applied to planning even in >

minor buildings. Later I found technological advantages when this system was

applied to heights. In elevation, therefore, soon came the vertical module as ,. experience might dictate. All this was very much like laying warp on the loom. The woof (substance) was practically the same as if stretched upon this predetermined warp. This basic practice has proved indispensable and good machine technique

must yield its advantages. Invariably it appears in organic architecture as visible features in the fabric of the design— insuring unity of proportion. The harmony of

texture is thus, with the scale of all parts, within the complete ensemble" (Wright, 1957, pages 306-307).

Acknowledgements. This paper is an extended version of Appendix 1 from John Sergeant (1976) Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: The Case for Organic Architecture (Wliitney Library of

Design, New York). The author is indebted to Richard MacCormac and Madeleine Thatcher for the use of their drawings.

References Frank E, 1963 "Organic architecture, organic philosophy and Frank Lloyd Wright" unpublished paper in Avery Library, Columbia University, New York, p 27 Gutheim F, 1941 Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture (Duell, Sloane and Pearce, New York) p 38 Kaufmann E, \95S An American Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright (Horizon Press, New York) p217 Kaufmann E, Raeburn B, 1960 Frank Lloyd Wright Writings and Buildings (Meridian, Cleveland) pp 221, 222 Lao-Tzu The Way of Life (Tao Te Ching) translated by W Bynner, 1944 (Lyrebird Press, London) ' MacCormac R, 1968 "The anatomy of Wright's aesthetic" The Architectural Review (February) 143 {, MacCormac R, 1974 "Froebel's kindergarten gifts and the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright"

Environment and Planning B 1 29-50 Manson G, 1953 "Wright in the nursery. The influence of Froebel education on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright" The Architectural Review 113 (June) Okakura K, 1906 The Book of Tea (reprinted by Dover, New York, 1964) p 40 Wright F L, 1932 An Autobiography (Faber and Faber, London) p 17 Wright F L, 1957 A Testament (Horizon Press, New York)

760064

8/1/76 Mr. M. Sekiya A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Sekiya:

Thank you for your letter of July 14. To the best of my knowledge, I had previously paid you for all items received, other than for the items you and Mr. Futagawa were kind enough to give me as gifts.

We are hoping to have a. telephone call from Mr. Futagawa telling us when he will arrive at Stanford to take additional pictures of the Hanna-Honeycorab House.

Yesterday, Endo phoned from San Francisco to say he cuid Tanigawa will visit us wijh other Japanese architects on August 10-12. We are pleasantly anticipating these visits from Futagawa, Endo, Tanigawa, and Company.

Cordially,

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow

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August 2, 19 76 RE: your payment ¥10,470

Dear Mr. & Mrs, Paul Hanna,

Thank you for your kind letter of August 1. Enclosed please find out your cheque dated July 6th. We are very sorry for asking double settlement to you, Please accept my apology for this confusion.

As for Mr, Futagawa, he is going to stay in Japan by the end of August and leave for Australia, I am sure he will call you before his visit.

I am,

Sincerely yours.

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August 6, 1976

Richard Lyman

Robert Ward

Dear Dick:

I am attaching a proposed draft of a letter from you to Mr. Kawamata, Chairman of the Board of the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. p I have checked the text of this with Mitsuya Goto, Kawamata's Assistant and he thinks it is fine.

Goto suggested only one addition to my original draft, ^^^ This was a suggestion that, since Kawamata and Arjay Miller have been acquainted for many years, it might be helpful to mention Arjay's presence at Stanford specifically in the text. As you will note I have done this.

Vi/ Goto also says that Nissan will be completely closed down and on holiday from August 9 to 16 inclusive. He recommends, therefore,

that our letter leave here about August 20. Since I will be away on holiday i at that time, would you mind asking Ev to see that this is done? May I suggest that blind copies of your letter be sent to Daryl Pearson, Dave Glen, and Paul Hanna, in addition to myself.

Cordially,

Attachment

bcc: Daryl Pearson Dave Glen Paul Hanna X Ron Herring Deeter Architects - Planners 7600G7 Ritchey Four Gateway Center Sippel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 Associates (41 2) 391 -4850

August 9, 1976

Mr. Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place No. 20 Stanford, California 94305

Dear Mr. Hanna:

Thank you very much for your letter and information. I am planning a trip to Japan, through Penn State University, for a foreign study program.

I am now planning my itenary for the trip and plan to try to work part time to help lower some of the expenses. I heard about the partial restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel and was very interested. I felt that if workers were needed I might be able to do part time labor, which would be an experience in itself, and travel when I am not working. I have had some experience by working full time with Deeter Ritchey Sippel Associates in Pittsburgh durring my breaks from the University.

I plan to write Professor Tanigawa to express my interest in his projects and in helping him. I only hope that he can help me.

I have only briefly explained my interests and hopes in this project. So, with your kind support I may be fortunate enough to make this trip possible. If you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to write.

Cordially,

DEETER RiT IPPEL ASSOCIATES

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760068

8/14/76

Mr. M. Sekiya A.D.A EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. 3-12-14 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Sekiya

Thank you for your letter and the return of my original check. Your kindness is very much appreciated.

Today we will have as our luncheon guests Mr. R. Endo, architect from Tokyo, and 5 of his fellow architects who are touring U.S.A. to see the architectueal work of Frank Lloyd Wright. After lunch the group will spend the afternoon at the Hanna-Honeycomb house.

When you next visit California, we would be honored to have you as our guest here at Stanford University. We are anticipating another visit from Mr. Futagawa.

Sincerely yours.

Paul R. Hanna Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution Stanford University

PRH/js THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 760069 STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305

August 17: 1976

Earle E. Coleman University Archivist Fireston Memorial Library Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey OS^IiO

Dear Sir:

A Professor Emeritus at Stanford, Dr. Paul R. Hanna, has the good fortune in the 1930' s to become acquainted with Frank Lloyd Wright and to get him to design a house for him on campus and supervise its construction. Completed in 1937, the Hanna house represents an important development in V7right's use of the revolutionary 6o/30-degree triangular mode of construction, a challenge to the prevailing 90- degree plan. Dr. Hanna has now given his house to Stanford, which \fill preserve it as a memorial of Wright's art.

But the point of this letter? Dr. Hanna is writing a book about V/right and in particular the conception and construction of his house. He first became interested in 'Wright by reading an account in the New York Times of Wright's delivery of the Kahn Lectures at Princeton in 1930. Dr. Hanna says that these were enthusiastically received by the Princeton academic community, and had a dramatic im- pact on the architectural profession when they were published the

next year as Modern Architecture. . .Kahn Lectures for 19 30 (Princeton, 1931).

But why am I writing to you about all of this? Though Dr. Hanna remembers vividly his reading an account of these lectures in the New York Times, neither he nor we can find any reference to them in the New York Times Index for 1930. We can search the paper itself, if we know exactly, or even approximately, when these lectures were delivered in 1930. Unfortunately Modern Architecture fails to mention specific dates.

I have written to you rather than to the Reference Department because I assume that these lectures were reported in the Princebon University newspaper, and that you have a file of these papers in the Archives, If you could ascertain these dates for us we would be most appreciative. Dr. Hanna laments that until he has this information he can make no further progress on his book.

Sincerely yours, .^ j) A- , William P. Allan ^ /' CLt^'^<^-^ General Reference Department 760070 WILLIAM JOSEPH SCHWARZ, ARCHITECT 562 MISSION STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94105 n (415) 5 43-0714

August 17, 1976

Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place, No. 20 Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Paul,

Enclosed is the publication I mentioned to you which my friend, Don Kalec, prepared to explain the evolution of Mr. Wright's home and studio in Chicago. I understand Lloyd Wright is working with the Restoration Committee of the F. Ll. W. Home and Studio Fo\indation in developing restoration plans. I found the floor plans in the back to be quite effective in depicting the modifications described in the text. I know you will be considering the use of developmental plans like this in your book on Honeycomb.

It was a great joy for me to visit again with you and Jean, Honeycomb, my alma mater and to meet Endo and his fellow visitors. Thank you for including me in the gathering.

Hope to be back in touch with you soon to finalize plans for the apartment project and seeing it through. Also, I reminded Endo later about the picture of the copper lid for the urn, and if we receive anything of use, I offer to try to draw up something for you to use in getting a sheet metal shop to fabricate it.

Sincerely,

William Joseph Schwarz

WJSrth

Enclosure ' Blind Copies: R. E. Ward, D. H. Pearson, IPauiJianna^ D. Glen

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Pro)f^ STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 94303

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 76C071

August 20, 1976

Mr. Katsuji Kawamata Chairman Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 17-1 Ginza, 6-chome Chuo-ku, Tokyo Japan

Dear Mr. Kawamata:

I recall with pleasure our meeting and conversation at

Sapporo last year. I was sorry to learn that you will not be able to attend this year's JCA meeting, since Mrs. Lyman and I had hoped that it might be possible for you to visit Stanford on that occasion.

I am writing now to submit to you and the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. a proposal that I had hoped to be able to present personally.

The proposal involves the establishment at Stanford Univer- sity of a Distinguished Visiting Professorship and, as a perquisite of that Professorship, the privilege of residing in Hanna-Honeycomb House, an architectural masterpiece designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and famed throughout the world as the first and best of his creations to employ the hexagonal scheme of design.

Hanna-Honeycomb House lies at the heart of our proposal. Commissioned originally in 1935 by Professor and Mrs. Paul Hanna, and later deeded by them as a gift to the University in 1974, the residence is located on the Stanford campus. The University is proud of the House which attracts visitors from all over the globe. We feel that the pleasure and distinction of living in Hanna-Honeycomb House during a period of residence at Stanford would add greatly to the attractiveness of the Visiting Professorship and would insure our continued ability to attract men or women of all nationalities who possess that high degree of international 76CC72

Mr. Katsuji Kawamata August 20, 1976 Page 2

eminence that we are seeking. This is the background against which I would like to request of the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. an endowment grant in the amount of $500, 000 to maintain, preserve, and improve the structures and grounds of Hanna-Honeycomb House.

As the other major element of this proposal, Stanford hopes to establish a new form of endowed position: a Distinguished Visiting University Professorship. This would serve the University as a whole rather than any single School or Department. We conceive of it as a post of the very highest honor and prestige which would be held for all or most of an academic year by scholars, artists, or public figures of worldwide repute from many fields of professional endeavor and from, many countries. I would like to request of the Nissan Motor Company,

Ltd. , an endowment in support of this Distinguished Visiting University Professorship in the amount of $1, 000, 000.

I am submitting this proposal in the light of Stanford's ' earlier discussions with Nissan that you doubtless recall and of the more detailed documentation prepared at that time. I enclose a copy of this for ready reference. It would be our hope, of course, that the name of Nissan could be conspicuously associated with both the Residence and the Professorship.

Since this proposal involves a large sum of money, I might mention that often gifts of this size are made in installments over a period of years. If, however, a firm pledge for the full endowment over an agreed time were received, it might be possible to activate the program in the fairly near future.

May I add a few words about Stanford. We are, as you may know, among the two or three leading private universities in the United States. For example, our Graduate School of Business -- under the direc- tion of Dean Arjay Miller, formerly President of the Ford Motor Company -- and our School of Education are ranked first in the country by authoritative national surveys, our School of Engineering is second, our School of Medicine »-^760C73

Mr. Katsuji Kawamata August 20, 1976 Page 3

third, etc. Stanford is, therefore, without a doubt the most distinguished private university in the entire western half of the United States. Our location on the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean naturally orients us toward the West and toward Japan. Our ties with Japan go back to 1900 and have multiplied in the succeeding years. I mention these matters only because we feel that the vast and rapidly growing importance of the Western United States is sometimes overlooked abroad.

Let me conclude on the note that I hope that you will find it possible to stop off for a brief visit at Stanford in the course of one of your trips. Mrs. Lyman and I would very much enjoy an opportunity to show you the campus and renew our acquaintance.

Cordially yours,

Richard W. Lyman

Enclosure 760074 STANFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE ^,T,S^^&'"'°'""''"^ TWO STORIES: Pat Black Harry Press / ,^ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE _^ 'j \_^,nr ^ STANFORD- ^ ^^ I "^'"^^'i^''^'^''^^

Art Prof, Paul Turner will open the Art Plus* fall series on the American house with a lecture at

1 :15 p.nn. Thursday. Oct. 7, in Annenberg Auditorium at Stanford. His topic will be "The 17th & 18th

Centuries."

The series will trace tha history of domestic architecture in America from the colonial period to

the 20th century. Within each period the focus will be on selected architects and houses that typify the

architectural character of the period.

American domestic architecture will be viewed from a number of different angles, illustrating the

evaluation of styles in architecture and reflecting social, economic, and esthetic patterns in American life and

thought.

Turner will deliver each lecture in the series on successive Thursdays, 1:15-2:30 p.m. in Annenberg

Auditorium, Cummings Art Building. They are as follows:

Oct. 14-"The Greek and Gothic Revivals"

Oct. 21-"The Opulence of the Late 19th Century"

____:==? Oct. 28-" Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie House" Nov. 4—"California Innovations and Eccentricities"

Nov. 11—"The International Style and Reactions Against It"

Tickets for the series are available at $15 from the Committee for Art at Stanford^ 328-7149.

* i*-ai Proceeds support the educational program at the Stanford Museum of Art.

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The 1977 Stanford Calendar, published by the Cap & Gown honor society, is now on sale.

Photographs of sculptures and landmarks on campus are featured. Daily appointment squares in the

8y2 X 1 1 inch calendar are marked with holidays, academic dates, and Stanford sports and alumni events.

All income from sale of the Calendar goes into Cap and Gown's scholarship program for Stanford

women Last year a full scholarship was awarded to an Asian language and East Asian studies major who

hopes to become a legislative assistant in foreign policy; a $1,000 award went to a psychology major who is

working toward degrees in divinity and social work; and a second $1,000 scholarship was given to a senior

psychology major whose long-term goals include graduate school and teaching.

Cap and Gown, founded in 1906, recognizes outstanding leadership and service to Stanford by

women students.

The 1977 Stanford Calendar is on sale for $2,25, plus tax, at the Stanford Bookstore and from Cap & Gown Members. Calendars also may be ordered for $2.75, including tax and postage, from Cap & Gown, Box 4484, Stanford, CA 94305.

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> 760075 z -n OM Date: August 23, 1976 o c

To : Professor Lorenz Eitner

-< F?OM William F. Miller Vice President and Provost O

Su3jeCT: mn m $ O 99 > Dear Lorenz: z o c I face a dilemma concerning visitors to the Hanna-Honeycomb House. We have 5 tried to accommodate visiting architects, scholars, students, and Frank Lloyd Wright buffs. The numbers are substantial - several per week during many parts of the year. > z O•n Here is the dilemma. Our housekeeper is too fully occupied to serve as o guide, she has errands to do away from the house, and she is not qualified c to distinguish various levels of attention that should be made between, for z example, a visiting scholar to the Art Department and an inquisitive Philistine, so to speak. When people are visiting here, they cannot resist asking questions of xvhomever is present - Patty, or the housekeeper, or me. For security -< reasons (we have had numerous security problems) , we cannot have the house open to visitors without a responsible guide. o

We have let people visit the house when Patty or I have been home. Scheduling mo is difficult, however, and restrictive. Patty works a very long schedule and is seldom here during weekdays. I find it very difficult to promise in advance m when I will be working at home. o >70 We have shown the house to a large number of people, including people who want z a to photograph it. I must say, however, that the hassle of trying to fit c 5 schedules has taken a great deal of the pleasure out of living there.

We tried an arrangement with the Student Guide Service. We set up specific > times, and the Service provided guides to take people, on request, to see the zn house. That didn't work. The students probably weren't firm-minded enough, o but they were always getting requests for other times and they would hassle our o housekeeper or my secretary or me about "would we please open up at some other C time." Moreover, the Student Guide Service didn't always have someone available z < so the burden would fall back to us again. 70 VI -« I write to you because we both share the feeling that the Hanna-Honeycomb House is a unique structure, an asset to Stanford, and something that should be shown to the public. I raise the question whether the Art Department would find it o attractive to assume a responsibility for the showing of the house. Perhaps some students would take pleasure in that. We v/ould still want to have rather mn fixed and definite times because we do live there and the layout is such that one

o >TO z o c 5 - 2 - 760076 cannot have any privacy in one part of the house when people are touring. My suggestion may not be practical, but I am rather desperate for a solution that will provide access to the professional and lay public and not be so tied down by schedules or hassled by untimely requests.

Do you have any ideas?

Best regards,

William F. Miller PRINCETON UNIVERSITY *7fi007^OU PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 /

The University Archives x^->t^S>ficxr«!XK:ic5fc!»55' Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Olden Street

Augus.t 26, 1976

Mr. William P. Allan General Reference Department The Stamford University Libraries Stanford, California 94305

Dear Mr. Allan:

This is a reply to your letter of August 17 concerning the

Kahn lectures delivered at Princeton by Fraoik Lloyd Wright. An

article in the Daily Princetoniain for May 6, 1930 states in part that

Mr. Wright would deliver a series of lectures starting on that day

and continuing through May 14. I hope that this information will

be useful to you and Dr. Hanna.

Sincerely yours,

Earle E. Coleman University Archivist

Truh^^ inAU^A^ oiuc^^^^ A^ fk^ Co art^u^Ce^ J^Wu^ August 31, 1976 760078 Dr. & Mrs. Paul R. Hanna Mitchell Place, No. 20 Stanford, California 94305 U. S. A.

Dear Paul & Jean:

Late last week Raku Endo phoned me to tell me that he and his friends had gone on a trip to the U.S. and that in the course of their stay there had visited with you at the Honeycomb House. I went to see him at the office one evening after work.

He delivered to me the book by John Sergeant which you had entrusted with him. I want to thank you very much for this beautiful book; I shall treasure it always. Thanks to you, I now have quite a collection of books and magazines on Prank Lloyd Wright. My family and I were sorry that on our trip to the U.S. this summer my schedule was such that it was not possible for us to include a trip to Stanford. Had the annual conferences organized by Hoot Gibson* s SRI been held in the Bay Area this year, it would have been a possibility.

Raku Endo and I had so much to talk about that I stayed with him a couple of hours that evening. I was rather surprised to find out that his trip this time was organized by Masami Tanigawa, for Raku had never forgiven the latter for not even inviting him to become a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Association in Japan. I guess it has been a battle between a practitioner and non-practitioner.

The letter from President Lyman addressed to our Chairman, Mr, Kawamata, has Just arrived, and I will bring it to his attention this week.

Thank you again for the book, My family joins me in sending you our best regards.

Sincerely yours, (U August 31, 1976

Dr. & Mrs. PaiiL R. Hanna Mitchell Place, No. 20 Stanford, California 94305 U. S. A.

Dear Paul & Jean:

and Late last week Raku Endo phoned me to tell me that he his friends had gone on a trip to the U.S. and that in the course of their stay there had visited with you at the Honeycomb House. 1 went to see him at the office one eve^ ning after work.

delivered to me the book by John Sergeant which you had He this entrusted with him. 1 want to thank you very much for to you, beautiful book; I shall treasure it always. Thanks magazines on I now have quite a collection of books and our Frank Lloyd Wright. My family and I were sorry that on to the U.S. this summer my schedule was such that it trip Had was not possible for us to include a trip to Stanford. SRI been the annual conferences organized by Hoot Gibson's held in the Bay Area this year, it woi^Ld have been a possibility. stayed with Raku Endo and I had so much to talk about that I surprised him a couple of hours that evening. I was rather Masami to find out that his trip this time was organized by Tanigawa, for Raku had never forgiven the latter for not even inviting him to become a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Association in Japan. I guess it has been a battle between a practitioner and non-practitioner. Chairman, The letter from President Lyman addressed to our to his Mr. Kawamata, has just arrived, and I will bring it attention this week. sending Thank you again for the book. My family joins me m you our best regards.

Sincerely yours, ^v^ 760080

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12-28-$u9, Shimoochiai 3-chome ShinQuku-ku, Tokyo

leth SEP. 1976

Dear aa«5. .

Our recent trip to the u.b. on the Prank L. V/right

Jour was made even more superb by the wonderful , v/arm reception

you gave us. It is always a renewed inspiration for me to meet

again the many people v;ho have meant so much to me in my life

and v;ork these past twenty years. j?o see ij?. ..right's and

Taliesen's architectural works is a real shot in the arm

that I'd like to have every few years.

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Iiy best wishes to you,

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^^f^ [issan;riJProposal on Hanna-Honneycomb House and Itinguished Visiting Professorship

:.:j-;",5;';^ Ken, you asked for background information on this solicitation ,7/,'lV. /;,!?:? • :,*iiV for Mr. Eberle. You already have Dick Lyman's letter to '•''' ,^J j>^''P i^'yf'fii-Mr.^iKatsuji'Kawamata/ Chairman of Nissan, Japan of August'"20thV"T*'^~''''*;J^ '^'' ' and the proposal that was enclosed describing the project. V While attending a Japan-California Association meeting at SRI about three years ago, Mr. Mitsuya Goto requested to see Hanna-

Honeycomb House (HHH) . (Mr. Goto is an ardent follower of Frank Lloyd Wright, the designer of HHH.) The Hannas were out of the '; :%ir/' country at the time, however. Hoot Gibson did take Mr. Goto by *• k, ^.'^ and walked around the premises. Subsequently, Mr. Goto wrote to

Professor Hanna and - they frequently corresponded. This led to a return visit by Mr. Goto at which time he did meet the Hannas and received a tour of HHH. Professor and Mrs. Hanna then visited Mr. Goto in Japan in May, 1975, and had an opportunity to tour Nissan plants near Tokyo, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright creations there. We do not know if Goto's interest in Frank Lloyd Wright is shared by Nissan management. Mr. Eberle should stress the Professorship and the opportunity it presents for the company.

We are not certain of Mr. Goto's exact title; we believe he is _. Vice President of the International Division. His name does ^o\:.'" liS^r^^^'^y:*- " "' ' ."- appear on the company's list of officers and directors. We do . understand, however, that he is very close to the chairmen and '

'' • ' presidents. .

We do know that Mr. Yutaka Kataycuna, former President of Nissan U.S.A., and now Chairman of the Board, is very supportive of the project. He has visited the campus and was entertained by the Provost. His successor as President, however, Mr. Hiroshi Majima, appears not to be interested in the project, according to Reid Briggs. Reid Briggs, as you know, is with Lillick, McHose and Charles of Los Angeles, legal counsel for Nissan U.S.A. Mr. Briggs has attempted on two occasions to get Mr. Majima to visit HHH and he has declined both invitations. Mr. Briggs does not believe the declines were genuine, but that Mr. Majima is very shy and •.''',' quite conscious of his poor English— thus, he tends to shun public*

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In October, 1975, Reid sent a proposal to Mr. Katayama, Chairman of Nissan U.S.A., requesting $1.5 million for HHH and the Distin- guished Visiting Professorship. The company was reportedly talking about making the gift on July 4th, coinciding with bicentennial celebrations. Subsequently, the decision was made that the Japan company would consider making the gift instead.

As an aside, we learned from Mr. Goto last July that Nissan had made a gift of $500,000 to MIT, and would be making gifts of similar amount to Princeton and Michigan. The purposes of these gifts are unknown. Mr. Tadahiro Iwakoshi, President of Nissan Japan, is reported to have said that "we should treat them all alike" — i.e., give Stanford $500,000 also. Mr. Goto advised ''"• ' Professor Hanna that this should not limit our thinking, and that we should work for a larger gift. Mr. Kawamata told Mr. Goto that Nissan Japan had not received a formal proposal from Stanford, and that if Stanford wanted support, a proposal should be submitted by September 1. In the proposal to Nissan Japan from Dick Lyman, dated August 20th, we do split the project, asking for $500,000 to endow the HHH and $1.0 million to endow the Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Dick does note that gifts of this size are often made in installments over a period of years; however, a firm pledge for the full amount would allow activation of the program in the fairly near future.

Reid believes that a decision will be made this month, in that the

company's fiscal year ends September 30th. He believes that if ,, Mr. Eberle is to intercede, he should do so immediately, and the key person to contact, in his opinion, is Mr. Kawamata. Mr. Kawcimata is reported not to know much about West Coast universities or Stanford. He does know Arjay Miller, and Dick Lyman did meet Mr. Kawamata in Sapporo last August. In Dick's closing sentence " of his August 20th letter, he does invite Mr. Kawamata to campus. Mr. Eberle could affirm this invitation.

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Dear Mr. Hawkins:

Reference is made to your October 20 letter to Dr. Paul Hanna that has been forwarded to me inasmuch as the former Hanna residence and the organ at 737 Frenchman's Road have been given to Stanford and are now the property of the University.

Stanford's Plant Services department is responsible for the maintenance of academic buildings, including the subject structure that is now known as the Hanna-Honeycomb House. I have forwarded the information in your letter to our work control center for inclusion in our index of special service contractors. Any future correspondence should be directed to Bruce L. Wiggins Operations Manager Plant Services Stanford, CA 94305 Telephone: (415) 497-3633

By copy of this letter, I am also informing the Saville Organ Corporation in Illinois. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance.

Yours very truly.

Bruce L. Wig^ns Operations Manager

cc: Saville Organ Corporation 3841 Swanson Court Gurnee, Illinois 60031

bee: Dr. Paul Hanna 760091

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Dear Goto:

Your telephone call brought us joy which we find hard to express in words. With your understanding and appreciation of what Frank Lloyd Wright means to our age, and with your guidance^and in- terpretat6on we have now assured the preservation of one of his finest creations.

Moments after your phone call, I conveyed your message to the persons you permitted us to inform. They were deeply grateful to the officers of your Company and particularly to you. Each was sworn to secrecy until the official communication is received.

A moment ago, Mr. Reed Briggs telephoned to inform us that Mr, Katayaroa told him that the U.S. Nissan Company would be conveying officially the gift for the Hanna-Honeycomb House by sending a check for $500,000 to Stanford University. This confirmation of your good message brings to Jean and me additional joy.

We will be writing you in more detail when the official word has been received.

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Mr. Kenneth M. Cuthbertson Vice President for Development Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

Re: Nissan Gift

Dear Ken:

I did have a chance to meet with Mr. Goto and the Nissan executives and the message was "we feel this is all we can give as it is a large sum at this particular time together with the three other equal sums to three other universities." However, the message was that they believe that Toyota and possibly Honda would be prepared, when they find out about this, to match these kind of gifts. I suggested that if they would give us a little advance warning so that we could make contact with Mr. Honda and Mr. Toyoda, that it would be most appreciative. Goto indicated he thought this was totally possible. Therefore, it seems to me that we must watch the handling of this very carefully. I don't know exactly how you want to handle the contacts at Toyota and Honda, but I do know both of the chief executives well and did see them this time although I was unable to discuss this matter with them because of the lack of announcement on the Nissan gift.

I did discuss the question of how it was to be announced and they were going to discuss this among themselves and would get back through Nissan-America to work with Stanford on an announcement. They, of course, would like to an- nounce all four gifts at the same time, but are perfectly willing, as I discussed with Paul Hanna, to allow Stanford on both behalf s, to make a larger announcement if that is desirable from our point of view. 760C96

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This does raise the question that there should be a flag that whenever the announcement is to be made, that we contact the Toyota and Honda people at about the same particular moment. Obviously, this will take some tim- ing and communications have not always been as quick as they might be and I urge all of you to think about how best to manage this.

I am leaving the ball in your court and will do nothing until I hear from you.

Best r^gajrds,

W. D. Eberle

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Dear Paul:

I delivered your book to Mr. Goto and had a very fine talk with him. I know he will be in touch with you about it.

We still have some work to do to get beyond the gift to date, as you will see in my full report at the University, copy of which has gone to you,

Best regards,

W . D. Eberle

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I delivered your book to Mr. Goto and had a very fine talk with him. I know he will be in touch with you about it.

We still have some work to do to get beyond the gift to date, as you will see in my full report at the University, copy of which has gone to you.

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As soon as I sent a letter off to you this morning I received a copy of Toyota News. I thought you might be interested in its cover and back cover. Regards. .M

r^nn NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD. Nissan Bidg., 17-1, Ginza 6-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 76C101

November 24, 1976

Dear Paul and Jean:

A week ago today Bill Eberle and I got together in the lobby of the Hotel Okura. After having talked 20 minutes about the issues which face auto industries of both countries, he produced the beautiful book from you. Your letter copy, which was inside the book, preceded your original letter by half day. 1 want to thank you for your kind gift, as well as for your nice letter.

I have known Bill for some time, but I am glad that my tie of friendship with him has been strengthened through our mutual interest in Stanford. Incidentally, Bill Eberle 's son-in- law works for our company's lobbyist in Washing- ton.

My family members and I are all well, and we send you our best wishes. Thank you again for your book and for your letter.

Sincerely yours. J TOYOTA NEWS

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Sales Target, Parts Control & Service Subjects at South Pacific Distributors' Conference

Eleven delegates from 10 Toyota dis- East Asia Department, opened the con- tributors in the South Pacific and two ference at 9 a.m. on September 20. The observers (from Guam and Saipan) at- following day the conference moved to tended the 3rd Toyota South Pacific Nagoya where the participants were wel- Distributors' Conference which was held comed at the Toyota Nagoya Wharf in Japan from September 20 to 27. The Center. They studied operations at conference was especially fruitful be- Nippon Denso Co., Ltd., Arakawa Auto

cause it gave all the participants a chance Body Co., Ltd., Haruhi Center, Aichi to actively discuss and exchange views Toyota, Kyokuto Kaihatsu Kogyo Co., about sales targets, parts control and Ltd. (the manufacturer of special pur- service. The conference opened at the pose bodies for Toyota vehicles) and a Tokyo office of Toyota Motor Sales Co., local dealer. In Toyota City, they were A Mr. J.F. Ash, General Manager ofEla Motors then moved to Nagoya and Toyota City. briefed on activities at the Kamigo Ltd., Papua New Guinea, gives a presentation following four points were sub- Engine Plant and the Tsutsumi and during the conference. The jects of serious discussions under the Takaoka Assembly Plants. They also theme, "More for You by Seeing Toyota visited Kuragaike Commemorative Hall. in Japan": (1) Review of past sales It was determined that the 4th confer- performances; (2) setting up of sales ence will be held in Tahiti next year. The targets; (3) effective parts control, and first conference was held in Port Moresby (4) importance of service staff training. in 1973 and the second in Suva in the Mr. M. Tanaka, Manager of Toyota Fijisinl975. Motor Sales' Export Oceania and South

AMr. A. Dang, President of Service Impor- tation Automobile du Pacifique, New Cale- donia, explains his market and parts and service setup.

^^Mr. H. Bossley (above photo). Manager of the Motor Division, Burns Philp (S.S.) Co., Ltd., the Fiji Islands, and Mr. A. Michel (photo below). Managing Director of Nippon Auto- moto, Tahiti, receive plaques honoring their achievements in reaching their sales targets.

Making the presentations is Mr. M. Tanaka, Manager, Export Oceania & South East Asia Dept.

A General view of the conference. NOVEMBER TOPIC

iA conference scene at the Arakawa Auto Body Co., Ltd. AThe conferees are given a tour of the Arakawa Auto Body Co. plant.

1 The participants look over special vehicles exhibited in Kyokuto KaUiatsu Kogyo Co.'s display lot. A The conferees visit the Kyokuto Kaihatsu Kogyo Co.

A Mr. Y. Onishi of the Export-Technical Dept. delivers a speech.

^ Vie conferees and their hosts are seen during a dinner party at the Castle Hotel in Nagoya.

i. Participants in the 3rd Toyota South Pacific Distributors' Conference.

3 NEWS FROM JAPAN

French Dealers Visit Japan

An 84-member group of French dealers visited Japan for eight days to observe Toyota's facilities. They visited Nagoya to see various facilities, including the parts depot at Haruhi and export and harbor facilities at the wharf. At the Haruhi Parts Center, the visitors saw its computer-controlled facilities. The parts center functions as the headquarters of Toyota's after-sales service system. An average 10,000 orders flow in BENVENUE to this center daily from Toyota's distrib- AUX CONCESSIONNAI^s utors in 140 countries around the world. „ They also saw the Wharf Center's vast DE_Ff?ANCE I storage yard that can hold 30,000 vehicles. Tliree specialized car carriers can dock simultaneously at the 600-meter long Wharf Center. They also visited the Head Office of Toyota Motor Co., the Kamigo and Tsutsumi plants and Kuragaike Com- Their visit lasted from August 28 to a The French dealers at Haruhi Center. memorative Hall. September 4.

Toyota's Swedish Representatives Visit Japan

One hundred and six persons representing AB Hesto, Toyota's distributor in Sweden, and numerous dealerships throughout that country, visited Japan in early September to learn more about Toyota's operations and to deepen friendly relations with the Toyota people. The group spent several days in Tokyo, then traveled to Toyota Motor Sales Co.'s head office in Nagoya. They were given tours of Haruhi Center, Nagoya Wharf Center and the Tsutsumi and Kamigo plants. They also visited the head office of Toyota Corolla Aichi Co., which specializes in the sales of Toyota Corollas.

^The Swedish visitors are seen at the Chin- zanso Restaurant in Tokyo, NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

Two Toyotas earned outstanding a Corolla 1600 operated by driver Leif Celica 2000 3rd laurels in the 1,000 Lakes Rally held at Asterhag and co-driver Claes BUlstam Overall, Corolla Jyvaskyla, Finland, on August 27. placed first in its class. Toyota Team Europe driver Hannu Tills was the seventli event in this 1600 1st in Class Mikkola, 34, and co-driver Arne Hertz, year's world rally championship and tlie 38, placed 3rd in tlie overall ratings with a most important motoring sports event in

In Finland Race 2-liter, 1 6-valve Celica 2000. In addition. Finland.

A Vie Toyota Celica 2000 handles smoothly on the tough gravel roads of .Vie Toyota Corolla 1 6U0 speeds toward victory. the } ,000 Lakes Rally in Finland.

Toyota Team Wins Manufacturer's Title In N.Z. Race

A three-car Toyota team won the Manufacturer's Team Title in New Zea- land's annual production saloon car race, the Benson & Hedges 1 000.

Although the three cars, all Corona 2000s, were competing against many higher-powered cars, they proved to be the only team reliable enough to endure the 1 ,000-kilometer race at the Pukekohe International Racing Circuit. While the four opposing manufacturers' teams all lost one or more members of their three-car teams through mechanical fail- ure, the standard Corona 2000s circled the water-logged track consistently. Toyota's driver combinations consist- also drives for New Zealand's Toyota Two of the three Corona 2000s which gave Toyota the Manufacturer's Team Title battle it ed of Mike Marshall and Richard Brock- rally team and is currently holding first out in the early stages of the New Zealand race. lehurst. Ken Cleghorn and Tim Gibbes, place in the class category in the national Vallis Peet and Bill Anderson. Cleghorn rally championship. ,

NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

MtSK 1 Toyota-Astra Motor ^H^^H 1 V '^^fl Celebrates 5th Year Ô The employees of P.T. Toyota-Astra jRHÎUf/Q 1 Jp/^^^BBB^B Motor (TAM) and their famiUes gathered P^l at the Kuningan Sports Grounds in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 16 to cele- i^^B'^Î^B^Î 'nHH SSgB brate tlie company's 5th anniversary. They joined together as one big family a suggestion that is always reiterated on i^H^ every special occasion by Mr. Hideo H^^ I^HPS Kamio, TAM's President Director.

When they celebrated the birthday, it mMH^W was the first time for them to take part in ^n^lEKHI '^ArJmm*Va^H a TAM "Undookai," a festival of games. There ^^ were more than 10 combination fun-and-sport games. The festival began There is a silence as a prayer is said prior to the opening the sporting events. at 9 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m. A moment of of In the center are balloons that were later released to mark the opening of the TAM "Undookai.'

TAM employees and their families enjoy musical entertainment after exerting all-out efforts to win prizes in the TAM festival ofgames.

York Motors Ltd. York's first applicadon will computerize data on at least 25,000 lines of spare parts and inventory. Its second A Contestants are ready for the tug of war. Orders Computer appUcation will computerize inventory York Motors Pty. Ltd., the New South data on up to 50 different variations of Wales distributor for Australian Motor five basic Toyota passenger vehicles.

Industries Ltd., has disclosed that it wUl York is one of the largest Toyota distrib- acquire a $750,000 Japanese computer utors in Australia, with vehicle sales system early next year. The system, currently running at between 23,000 and called a model 230/38 computer and 24,000 units a year. supplied by Facom AustraUa Ltd., will Australian Motor Industries has also operate two crucial new applications ordered a Facom computer to com-

which will involve distributed computer puterize its operations. terminals in the Sydney area. NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

Toyota Wives Help Toyota-Astra Motor to visit orphanages two solemn days like other children on the eve of "Lebaran" Day (the end of whose parents are still alive. Orphans in Indonesia the fasting month for Moslems) and On August 30 and 31, the wives Christmas Day to give gifts to orphans. continued their gift-giving program by

It is almost an established tradition for The presents are intended to help the visiting eight orphanages run or organized the wives of staff members of P.T. orphans share the joy of celebrating the by Moslem institutions or organizations.

Mrs. Sakumi and Mrs. Moedahar, wives of P. T. Toyota-Astra directors, hand gifts to the director ofan Indonesian orphanage.

^Children and officials of an Indonesian orphanage pose with wives of staff members of P.T. Toyota-Astra Motor after the wives distributed presents among the children. The sign in the back reads: "Welcome to the visiting ladies from P.T. Toyota-Astra Motor."

Toyota to Sponsor The $75,000 tennis classic is expected to draw some of the biggest attractions in Australian Golf, women's tennis: Evonne Goolagong- Cawley, Virginia Wade, Maria Bueno, Tennis Tournaments Rosemary Casals, Sue Barker, Kerry Reid and Olga Morozova, plus some 20 other Australian Motor Industries Ltd., world-ranked stars. which helped send the Australian Olym- Mr. Wayne Reid, President the Lawn pic Team to Montreal, has expanded its of Tennis Association, and Mr. William Owbridge promotional activities in Australian (left), A.M.I. Sales Manager, make the official sporting events by becoming involved in announcement on the Toyota Women's Tennis the sponsorship of the Austrahan Open Classic at a press conference in Melbourne on Golf Championship and full sponsor of August 1 1. the Toyota Women's Tennis Classic. The golf tournament was scheduled to be held in Sydney from October 28-31. The tennis tourney will be held at the world-famous Kooyong Centre Court in Melbourne from December 6-1 2. T0V9TAS IN IIMEIIGHTAT JAKARTA AND SYMVEYAUTO SHOWS

Best Among the Best Toyota's MP 1 a Big Hit The 1976 Jakarta Fair was held from Toyota's MP-1 (Multi-purpose vehicle) the New South P.T. Toyota-Astra Motor (TAM) of Apart from its general splendid atmos- Wales distributor for The MP-1, which was insured for June 12 to July 10. was one of the main attractions at the Australian Indonesia presented the most dazzling phere, the principal attractions seemed to Motor Industries Ltd., also $68,000 for the Australian showing, Sydney International Motor Show, 1976. displayed a Corolla Liftback, which display at the 1976 Jakarta Fair. TAM's be the Crown Super Saloon and the was could be used as a sedan or station wagon, The MP-1 was a major drawing card and very well received, as well as other pavilion, which displayed five Toyota Corolla KE-30 that participated in the models a taxi, a panel van or a recreation vehicle. received wide TV and press publicity in the Toyota line. Nearly retail vehicles (Crown Super Saloon, Corona, Darmaputra International Rally last 40 orders It is a forerunner of family cars of the before and during the show, which was were obtained as a direct resuh Corolla, Land Cruiser and Hi-Ace), won June. The ICE-30 won first place in the of the future. in the held in August. show, according to York Toyota offi- first prize for its beautiful design and Class C category and third place

In addition to the MP- , York Toyota, cials. decorations. overah standings. 1

The exterior of TAM's glittering and beautiful pavilion at the 1976 Al'lsitors admire the elegant Jij/" 'i /• tlraction. a A A general view of York Toyota's display at the Sydney International A A station wagon and a van were included in York Toyota's displav. Jakarta Fair. Crown Super Saloon. Motor Show, 1976. TOYOTA MPI EXPERIMENTAL VEHICLE

A At right is the Corolla Kt-SU (No. 27) that raced successjullr m last June's Darmaputra A A large number of visitors look at TAM's display in its beautifully designed and decorated pavilion. International Rally. NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

Toyota Forklift Operator Wins 1st

A Toyota forklift operator won top prize in the Class B category of Ireland's Forklift Truck Operator of the Year

Competition 1976. Mr. Joe Carroll, representing W.P. Keeling Ltd. of Dublin and operating a Toyota forklift, won the top trophy for scoring the most points in

the Counterbalanced 2,000-3,400 lb. division. He was also 2nd overall winner. Another Toyota forklift operator, Liam Delaney, representing the Panelling Centre of Dublin, placed 3rd in the Class C category (Counterbalanced 3,500- 5,0001b.). There were 85 competitors entered, driving 13 different makes of forklift trucks in four classes. Four Toyota operators were entered in two classes. Band C. The competition consisted of a 10-question examination and a series of driving and maneuvering tests.

1 . 2. Mr. Joe Carroll handles these drums with ease with his Toyota forklift.

3. Mr. Noel Moore, General Manager, Forklift

Division, Toyota (Ireland) Ltd., is flanked by the winning Toyota forklift operators, Mr. Liam Delaney (left) and Mr. Joe Carroll.

Free Finnish SIiow Kicks Off Import of Toyota Pickups

Korpivaara Oy, Toyota's dealer in Finland, presented a free show for the young people of Helsinki to celebrate the beginning of its importation of Toyota 1000 pickups. The show featured popular Finnish pop-artists, who performed for two hours. In addition, an air ticket to Japan was presented througli a lottery. The show was held at Helsinki's Ice Hall, which was filled to capacity for the

first time since it was buUt. An estimated 13,000 youths crowded into the Ice Hall while another 5,000 had to stay outside.

A A scene from Korpivaara Oy's free show at the Ice Hall in Helsinki.

10 NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

2 Japanese Visit Wliite House During Bicentennial Tour

< Mr. Hideaki Fujii (left) and Mr. Katsuyoshi Suzuki, who made a Bicentennial tour of the United States in a Celica GT, present a carp streamer to Mr. Milton E. Mitler, deputy special assistant to President Gerald Ford, on the South Lawn of the White House. This was the highlight of their trip, which took them to 100 U.S. cities that have sister-city ties with cities in Japan. Mr Fujii and Mr Suzuki, who called themselves the Buffalo Team, delivered gifts from their Japanese counterparts to officials in all the cities. The carp streamer, called koi-

nobori in Japanese, is flown by Japanese families on Children's Day, May 5, to wish for good health for their children. The Buffalo Team returned to Japan in September.

Celica LB Presented To Miss Hawaii

Miss Hawaii 1976 sits behind the wheel of the new Toyota Celica Liftback that she won as first prize in the state-wide beauty contest. Miss Hawaii, whose duties range from public ap- pearances to attending community dinners and government functions, is the official greeter and representative of the State ofHawaii. She is Miss Haunani Asing of Kailua, Oahu. The 18-year-old beauty is a student at the Hawaii Loa College, majoring in Communication Arts. She received the Celica from Mr. Matt Masuoka, Vice President ofServco Pacific Inc., Toyota 's distributor in Hawaii.

11 NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

Millionth CKD Toyota Assembled in Thailand

The 1.000.000th imported complete knock down fCKD) Toyota rolls off the assembly line ^.ODd^ during a ceremony honoring the event at a Toyota Motor Tliailand Co.. Ltd. assembling factory. Officials and factory assemblers gather around as Mr. K. Miura, Executive Vice Presi- dent of Toyota Motor Thailand, launches the car. The ribbon cutting and champagne ceremony was held on the afternoon ofJuly 9.

Tlie purpose of the competition was to August 1 at its Service Delivery and Parts Thai Mechanics Center. Six two-man teams representing promote mechanical skills in vehicle re- the Service Department, Technical Sec- pair and maintenance among Toyota's Compete in Contest service reli- tion and Vehicle Control Section demon- mechanics and to strengthen Toyota Motor Thailand Co., Ltd. held strated their skills in component parts ability to customers.

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Mechanics and judges are seen in action and participating teams. during the mechanical skill contest. , Trophies and prizes are presented to the winning

12 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE NEWS -Forklifts in Japan (19)- TOYOTA

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Distribution Field Important for Companies

Investments in distribution and related fields during 1974 showed an increase of 10 per cent industry-wide and 20 per cent

in industries with a capital of more than ¥100 million. Investment in distribution facilities was almost equal to investment

in pollution control facilities, indicating a

rise in the importance of modern distribution facilities. Distribution is impor-

tant for any industry, and since 1965 it has been the object of concern, but until the last few years the theories generated had not been put into practice.

The oil shock of 1973 and the resulting recession forced many companies to become more cost-conscious and consider ways of reducing production and distribution costs. Industries studied the sim- plification of distribution operations, including the use of forklifts and other distribution equipment to streamline distribution procedures. In addition, transportation and warehouse procedures have been closely scrutinized to find methods for cutting expenses and ex- pediting dehvery of products.

Rental and Lease Of Forklifts Gaining Popularity

Considerable interest has been growing in the rental and lease of forklifts because this system gives the industry improved transportation capability to handle a temporary situation without a long-term capital expenditure. Occasionally an emergency arises, such as the rapid distribution of excessive stockpiles, which requires additional transportation capability. At such times rental forklifts can provide a useful function. Rented or leased forklifts can be found in such places as port warehouses, general warehouses and construction sites. The number of industries in Japan effectively utilizing the rental-lease system of forklifts in their distribution is increasing rapidly.

k A Toyota forklift leased from a rental company moves canons to a loading area.

13 ADVERTISING AND SALES PROMOTION

Kimono-CIad Women to Be Featured in 1977 Calendar

Toyota's calendar for 1977 will feature Japanese women dressed in colorful kimono. Mr. Akimitsu Yokosuka, a first-class cameraman in Japan, took pictures of Miss Keiko Sekine, a popular movie star in Japan, and Miss Sayoko Yamaguchi, an internationally known fashion model, for the Toyota calendar. The pictures have plain backgrounds as the photographer concentrated on the women and the m rMM kimono. An inner beauty of the women is shown in delicate form through the keen mm eyes of Mr. Yokosuka.

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been invested to expand the spare parts OFFICIALS OF PREMOTO S.A. PREMOTOS.A.- warehouse, to build new workshops and Ivory Coast to hire more speciahsts. PREMOTO plans to extend its sales network throughout PREMOTO S.A., which was estab- the Ivory Coast in the next three years, Hshed on August 4, 1969 to import and even reaching the most remote parts of

sell Toyota vehicles and parts in the Ivory the country.

Coast, is a subsidiary of SOGIEXCI S.A. Co., Ltd. In the beginning, Toyota had a difficult time competing against European imports because they had many customs Mr. C. Colliot Managing Director advantages. Therefore, in 1971 and 1972

Toyota's share of the market was only Mr. P. Boni about 3%. But thanks to a Governmental Deputy Managing Director change in policy, some steps were taken L to ease the customs regulations, a move that helped PREMOTO's operations. In 1971, PREMOTO's capital was in-

creased from 1 5 million CFA francs to 100 million CFA francs. By the end of

1971 , a large reorganization of the com-

pany had been undertaken, including tlie hiring of more qualified specialists, with the aim to increase PREMOTO's commercial strength and after-sale structure. The main aims of this program were: 1) to meet the increasing demand for Toyota spare parts and establish a fast and highly qualified after-sales service: 2) to reduce the quantity of imported models and to emphasize the most com- petitive ones, and 3) to attract the interest of the most difficult clients and to enter into the most specialized mar- kets, i.e. the taxi market, the big companies, the Government administration, Mr. K. Soumahoro Mr. J. Kouassi head etc. PREMOTO's office and showroom Deputy Sales Manager Deputy Parts Manager in the Ivory Coast. AU of these efforts have borne fruit: the sales of Toyota vehicles increased . .1 •>> - from 343 in 1974 to 1 ,086 in 1975. From 1972 to 1975, the sales of Toyota cars in the Ivory Coast have shown an increase of more than 425%, which means an average annual growth of more than 100%. In 1975, Toyota had a 10.06% share of the market and was third in importance, following the French companies Peugeot and Renault.

PREMOTO intends to continue this magnificent pace in the future. With this goal in mind, huge sums of money have

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Grandeur, Beauty & Durability of Construction

Western construction is periiaps the together in uninterrupted space that was, most permanent and widespread manifes- in effect, continued outside. Wright also tation of Western culture found in Japan. pioneered in commercial architecture. Western arcliitecture and building tech- By 1910, Wright had designed nearly niques were introduced in this country 100 buildings. Among the most famous after the Meiji Restoration — barely 100 structures of the "First Golden Days of years ago. Perhaps the most famous Wright" are the Charnley House (1890) Western building in Japan was the old in Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Lincoln Imperial Hotel in centra! Tokyo, which Center (1903) in Chicago, Illinois, and was designed and built by Frank Lloyd the Unity Church (1906) in Oak Park, Wright. Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright was world famous Later, he traveled to Europe to publish A Frank Lloyd Wright and his gruiidsun. as the creator and expounder of "organic a design book on European architecture (Photo courtesy ofMr. Raku Endo) architecture," his phrase indicating build- and to practice his prairie style design. ings that harmonize with users and the After a period of travel that included a durability. A year after it was completed, environment. historic visit to Japan, he returned to the all questions about its strength were put Wright was born June 8, 1867, in United States in the latter part of the to rest. The great Tokyo earthquake in Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S.A. After 1930s with a reputation as a genius in 1923 leveled almost every large building briefly studying civil engineering at the arcliitecture. In this, the "second Golden in the city. Only the Imperial Hotel University of Wisconsin in Madison, he Days of Wright," he was responsible for withstood the 7-magnitude quake, and went to Chicago, where he worked under designing many structures featuring not a single window in the building was Louis Sullivan from 1888 to 1893. In unique styles. broken.

1893 he began independent practice. In 1915 Japan invited Wright to build The Imperial Hotel was razed in 1 969 Shunning the stylistic revivals, he evolved the great Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. despite worldwide protests and pleas for unorthodox forms suited to modern Wriglit used his innovative techniques its preservation, and parts of the hotel living and to new structural methods and to build the Imperial Hotel, and even were rebuilt in Meiji Village near Nagoya materials. before its completion it became a center as a permanent monument to the genius By 1900 his "prairie style" house was a of appreciation and criticism in the build- of Frank Lloyd Wright. Meiji Village recognized accomplishment. A Wright ing field and art circles. contains many valuable buildings dating residence of those years showed a wide, The big question at that time was its back to Japan's Meiji Era that are kept in low roof over continuous window bands ability to withstand earthquakes. It was a a restored state. that turned corners, defying convention- large building for its time in Japan, and al boxy structure; main rooms flowed many architects were skeptical about its

Cover: The old Imperial Hotel was a beautiful structure consisting of numerous geometrical patterns. Its design was complicated and its composition dramatic. It remained in the heart

of Tokyo until 1969 when it was removed to make room for the new Imperial Hotel.

TOYOTA NEWS Published monthly by Advertising & Public Relations Section. Export-Administration Department Toyota Motor Sales Co.. Ltd. No. 3-18, 2-chome. Kudan-Minami, A Frank Lloyd Wright designed these school Chiyoda-ku. Tokyo, Japan. Tim uui ilic main luliliy uj lite i}ld Imperial barracks the Jiyti in of Gakiien Tokyo. He A 11 Toyota distributors and associates Hotel. Many decorative enf^ravin^s existed worked on this project for the benefit of the are requested to supply editors with inter- tliroiiahoin the interior, blending together to private school which propagates freedom of esting news for publication in Toyota create a reslfiil atmosphere in the lobby. education. It was completed in 1 921. News. Please mail to the above address.

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Mr. John Hodgmai, senior committee Mr. H. Patterson, executive vice-president of Chase Man- member of the British Kennel Club, enioyed hattan Bank, posed with his daughter in the lobby in July. his stay at the Okura in July.

Professor Paul R. Hanna, of Stanford Uni- versity, was a guest of the Okura in August. He showed a great deal of interest in the hanging Okura "Lontern" in the lobby,

which is shaped to resemble the hexohedral gems found in the 3rd to the 6th ce.itury in this country. With him is Mr. G.S. Mizota, advisor, Tokyo Fishery Co., Ltd. and president of the Stanford University Alumni Club of Tokyo.

Mr. Bradley Smith, noted photographer and writer of Japanese history and art, and author of "Japan, a History in Art," published by Simon and Schuster Co. in the U.S., presented the Japanese translated version by Bungei Shunju to Mr. Iwajiro Noda, president of Hotel Okura, where Mr. Smith stayed for several weeks in June.

76C1C6

W. D. EBERLE

1909 K STREET. N.W.. SUITE 300

WASHINGTON. D. C. 20006

(202) 872-9350

December 1, 1976

Mr, Mitsuya Goto Manager, International Advertising & Public Relations; Export Division Assistant Manager, International Division Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 6-17-1, Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Goto:

Pursuant to our conversation, I am enclosing blind copies of two confidential letters I have written to Honda and Toyota. You will note there is no mention of any gift from Nissan. As we discussed, I wanted to lay the groundwork with the two companies so when it becomes known that you have given a gift, we may follow through directly with them. If you have any further suggestions on this matter, I would appreciate them.

If you will recall, we also discussed the potential announcement of your gift to Stanford as I told you that we would hold off saying anything until we received word as to precisely how you wanted to do it. At the same time we did wish to enlarge our announcement recognizing that yours probably will cover a number of different gifts. The University would like a little advance notice, if possible, of your announcement so that they can work it with you, and I will leave this to you" and your associates to work out with the University. If:: there is any indication as to when this is to be done, you should contact the University directly.

Again, thanks for all your help.

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W. D. EBERLE 1909 K STREET. N.W.. SUITE 300 760107 WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 D // > (202) 872-9350 J

December 1, 1976

^y ^ ' ^ \ ' \\ Mr. Eiji Toyoda, Presi(ident Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. ^A 1-12-1, Yuraku-cho, Chiyoda-ku k. \o \l^ Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Toyoda:

I am writing you on behalf of Stanford University where I am a Trustee. As you may know, Stanford has a center for Japanese studies which I believe to be

one of the finest in the United States. It is our . desire to improve and expand upon this center and we would like to discuss with you and your associates your considering a gift in support of these programs. At the present time. Dr. Peter Duus, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, is in Japan. I would appreciate it if you could meet with him and hear what we are doing and why support to Stanford University can be beneficial not only for Stanford, but also for Toyota.

I am sure you recognize in the United States the importance the business community places on its academic institutions and the major support that is given. To have such support from a company such as yours, and the potential interchange with people from your company and the University, seems to me to be an important step that ought to be considered. I have asked Dr. Duus to contact you and I will appreciate your consideration in this matter which I think is important to both you and the University. 760108

Mr. Eiji Toyoda Page 2.

I want to add just a note of thanks to you for your help through JAMA in speeding the certification of the U.S. cars in Japan. It seems to be working and I think you get part of the credit.

Hopefully, our paths will cross again soon.

/Best reqards.

W, D. Eberle

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W. D. EBERLE 760109

1909 K STREET. N.W., SUITE 300

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006

(202) 872-9350

December 1, 1976

Dr. Robert E. Ward Professor of Political Science Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

Dear Bob:

Enclosed are the letters for Dr. Peter Duus along with copies of the letters that I have written to Goto, Honda, and Toyoda.

I hope you will find these satisfactory.

Best regar\ds,

W. D; Eberle

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W. D. EBERLE 1909 K STREET. N.W.. SUITE 300 76C110 WASHINGTON. D. C. 20006

(202) 872-9350

December 1, 1976

Dr. Peter Duus Professor of History c/o Dr. Robert E. Ward Professor of Political Science Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

Dear Dr. Duus

Enclosed are letters of introduction to Mr. Honda and Mr. Toyoda, together with copies of letters that I have written to them.

Good luck in your venture. Bob Ward will undoubtedly be forwarding these directly to you with additional comments

Best regards, \ -^ W. D. Eberle

WDE j b ends.: W. D. EBERLE 760111

1909 K STREET, N.W.. SUITE 300 WASHINGTON. D C 20006

(202) 872-9350

December 2, 1976

Mr. Eiji Toyoda, President Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. 1-12-1, Yuraku-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Toyoda:

This letter will introduce to you Dr. Peter Duus, who is the Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University.

As I indicated to you in my letter of December 1, he will be contacting you, and again let me thank you for your consideration in taking the time to meet with Dr. Duus.

/Best Iregards,

vh^b. Eberle

WDE: jb W.D.EBERLE 760112 1909 K STREET, N.W.. SUITE 300

WASHINGTON. D, C. 20006

(202) 872-9350

December 2, 1976

Mr. Soichiro Honda Supreme Advisor Honda Motor Co., Ltd. y^A 27-8 Jingumae, 6-chome, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150/ Japan

Dear Mr. Honda: x>'<\^'^

This letter will introduce to you Dr. Peter Duus, who is the Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University.

As I indicated to you in my letter of December 1, he will be contacting you, and again let me thank you for your consideration in taking the time to meet with Dr. Duus.

Best regards,

W. T). Eberle

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X SuBJEO: Meeting of December 7, 1976 on approaches to Toyota and Honda Motor Companies

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It was my understanding that we reached agreement on the following points at this morning's meeting. First, if we are to proceed further with the notion of linking a distinguished visiting university professorship to occupancy of the Hanna-Honeycomb House, it will be > z necessary to raise an endowment of at least $1, 500, 000. We will, there- O fore, approach the Toyota Motor Company at the proper time for a gift of o $1, 000, 000 to be used to endow the professorship in conjunction with the c z impending grant from Nissan of $500, 000 to be used to support the mainten- < fll ance and operations of the house. Alternatively, if Toyota does not care TO to be linked in this manner with the Nissan Motor Company or is not interested in endowing this sort of visiting university professorship, we will seek a gift of $1, 000, 000 to be used in support of an incremental professorship of Japanese Studies. You expressed some reservations about the incremental quality of the latter and the merits of the case for academic need in the Japanese Studies field. It was not quite clear to me whether my response on this score satisfied your objections or not. If not, please let me know 2 o as soon as possible so that I can instruct Duus properly on this score. > Z o 2. If Toyota is reluctant to go as high as a million dollars, C we will try for $600, 000 to be used for a non-incremental chair in the Japanese Studies field. Any smaller amount could be used as a fund to support salary or other expenses in the Japanese area. o 3. It was understood that the initial approach to Toyota would o be of a general exploratory and rather vague nature in an effort to c z determine how interested they were and what level of funding it might be realistic to expect. We cannot be explicit about any possible linkage to Nissan or the Hanna-Honeycomb House until the Nissan gift has been publicly announced. -<

o 4. Where Honda is concerned, we agreed to go in at the level of $350, 000 to begin with and request this as an addition to the Japanese business fund of $372, 000 received last year.

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Dr. Richard W. Lyman President Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 U. S. A.

Dear Dr. Lyman:

It was a great pleasure for me to have met you and Mrs. Lyman in the course of the Japan-California Association meeting in Sapporo in the summer of 1975. I enjoyed talking with you.

You have followed up on our conversation with a formal request for financial assistance from Nissan which was contained in your letter of August 20, 1976, I am pleased to inform you that we will make available $500,000 to your university through Nissan U,S,A, I hope it will be used as an endowment grant to maintain, preserve, and improve the structures and grounds of Hanna-Honeycomb House so that the distinguished visiting professor can be housed there. I regret that we are not in a position to provide an endowment in support of the distinguished visiting professorship, which you had also requested.

Please have someone from your office contact Mr, Maxima, President of Nissan U.S.A., regarding the above grant.

With my kindest regards and best wishes.

Sincerely yours,

PRESIDENT'S OFFICE K. Kawamata

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740-748 JACKSON PLACE, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 (202) 638-5200

December 13, 1976

Dr. Paul R. Hanna, Senior Research Felloe Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

Dear Dr. Hanna:

I want to thank you for the fine lunch and wonderful news about the future of the Hanna-Honeyconb House. You are to be congratulated on your success in securing a donor willing to provide an endowment for the raaintenance of Wright's most famous Usonian house.

Your cannents about Tor House and recollections of the visit with Robinson Jeffers were appreciated. At present, the Tmast is atteitpting to assist the Jeffer's family in the preservation of this imique property. However, I am not familiar with the work of Robinson Jeffers and am unable to evaluate his importance in American literature. Any assistance one of your colleagues at Stanford University could provide in the form of a very brief evaluation of Jeffers' significance would be of a great benefit to our analysis of the property.

I have discussed your suggestion for a meeting with tlie University's Board of Stustees. with Dr. Sande, Director of Professional Services in the Office ^s ^fVii*'"' of Historic Properties. He also believes the idea has merit. We will discuss the project further and determine v^at, considering the Trust's limited resources, v\Aould be the most effective manner for the Trust to participate.

It was a pleasure to talk with you. I want especially to thank you for inviting Susan. We look forward to your next visit to Washington and the opportunity to one day tour the Hanna-Honeyccmb House now that you and Mrs. Hanna have secured its future maintenance and preservation.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas.

Sincerely,

/ nw Thonas M. Slade Assistant Director Professional Services Historic Properties 7601^0 STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE or T He PRESIDENT

STAN FORD, CALI FORNIA 94305 Deceniber 22, 19 76

Mr. Katsuji Kawamata Chairman Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 17-1 Ginza, 6-chome Chuo-ku, Tokyo Japan

Dear Mr. Kawamata:

It is with great pleasure that I v;rite to thank Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. most warmly for its decision to make available to Stanford University, through Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A., a $500,000 grant which will provide the necessary endowment to maintain, preserve and improve the structures and grounds of the Hanna- Honeycon±) House on the Stanford campus. We will be in touch with Mr. Hiroshi Majima, as requested.

Your magnificent contribution v;ill insure the preservation of a splendid example of Frank Lloyd Wright's genius and, thus, has a value and importance which extends far beyond Stanford itself. We are indeed deeply grateful to you and to Nissan and look forward to the time when the gifts necessary to endow the Distinguished Visiting Professorship are in haind. Stanford is honored to have your support and to participate in the further strengthening of Japanese- American relations through this firm bond of friendship between Stanford University and Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.

Mrs. Lyman and I hope to have the pleasure of renev;ing our acquaintance with you in the near future, either here at Stanford or in your own beautiful country.

With all best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

' Richard W. Lyman I \,.-' cc: Mr. Iliroshi Majima bcc: Mr. Reid Briggs Mr. Yutaka Katayama ^^rof. & Mrs. Paul Hanna Prof. Robt. E. Ward STANFORD UNIVERSITY /^60121 OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 94305 December 22, 1976

Mr. Re id R. Briggs Lillick, McHose and Charles 611 West Sixth Street Los Angeles, California 90017

Dear Re id:

As you know, I've been quite busy thanking everyone associated with the Nissan grant for the Hanna- Honeycoimb House. In the midst of all this thanking, I could not possibly overlook the vital role you've played in bringing this project to fruition.

Over the years, you've been an exceptionally good friend to Stanford, thus it is not surprising that your talent and energy has once again come to the aid of the University so successfully. I suppose that the greatest reward is in knowing that you have been instrumental in preserving a magnificent creation. We all thank you.

With best wishes for the holiday season.

Sincerely Lyours ,

Richard W. Lyman cc: Professor Robert E. Ward

bcc : ^^Plrofessor and Mrs. Paul Hanna STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFnCE OF THE PRESIDENT 76C122

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305

December 22, 1976

Mr. Yutaka Katayama Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A. Post Office Box 191 Gardena, California 90247

Dear Mr. Katayama:

I have just had the pleasure of writing to Mr. Kawamata to thank Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. for its decision to establish, through Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A., an endowment fund at Stanford for the maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the Hanna-Honeycomb House. I would also like to express our warm and abundant thanks to you for all that you have done to make this project possible.

Your kind assistance has not only helped to insure the preservation of this splendid house, but has also given Stanford a strong bond of friendship with Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.

I remember your visit to Hanna-Honeycomb House some time ago and I am hoping that we can arrange a luncheon here on the campus with Mr. Hiroshi Majima and yourself early next year. In the meantime, please accept our deepest gratitude and appreciation.

With all best wishes.

Sincerely yours.

Richard W. Lyman cc: Mr. Reid Briggs bcc: ".Professor and Mrs. Paul Hanna Professor Robert E. Ward STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 760123

STANFORD, CALI rORNIA 94305 December 22, 1976

Mr. Hiroshi Majima President Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A. Post Office Box 191 Gardena, California 90247

Dear Mr. Majima:

On behalf of Stanford University, I am tremendously pleased to acknowledge the decision of Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. to award a $500,000 grant through Nissan Motor Company in U.S.A. for the maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the Hanna-Honeycomb House. We are abundantly grateful to Nissan for its very generous support and interest in Stanford.

Professor Robert E. Ward, director of the Center for Research in International Studies, will soon visit you to discuss the implementation of this gift.

I hope very much that you will be able to include in your plans a visit to Stanford early next year. In the meantime please share our warm and abundant thanks with your associates here and in Japan.

With all best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

-v-..^^___^. Richard W. Lyman

cc; Mr. Katsuji Kawamata bcc : Mr. Raid Briggs Mr. Yutaka Katayama Y^rof. & Mrs. Paul Professor Robert E. Ward Hanna Blind copies to: Reid Briggs, Dave Glen, Paul Hanna, Ron Herring,

William F. Miller, Daryl Pearson » ' • STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305

CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 760124 Rollers House. 549 Salvitierri Sire«

December 23, 1976

Mr. M. Goto Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 17-1, 6-chome Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Goto:

President Lyman has given me copies of Mr. Kawamata's recent letter announcing Nissan's handsome gift to Stanford and of his reply thereto. He has also asked me to represent Stanford in any further arrangements relating to the announcement and presentation of the grant.

I have written Mr. Majima in this connection and enclose a copy of this

letter for your information. I also enclose a copy of a letter of personal thanks to Mr. Katayama for his efforts on Stanford's behalf.

I ajn writing now to add my warmest thanks and gratitude for your help in this matter. I well appreciate just how essential this was to Nissan's decision to make the gift. I need not add that I am delighted that it will be used to maintain and improve an architectural

monument of the beauty and importance of Hanna-Honeycomb House. I share your enthusiasm for Wright's works and am very pleased that

Nissan has chosen this particular form of benefaction. I hope that this outcome gives you as much pleasure as it does us.

I also very much hope that the happy conclusion of this particular relationship does not result in an end to our association. You have a standing and very warm invitation to visit Stanford whenever possible. My wife and I would be happy to compete with Jean and Paul for the pleasure of entertaining you -- though on not quite so grand a scale.

My best regards and wishes for the New Year and, again, my thanks. Cordially yours.

Robert E. Ward Director Enclosures - 2 mh/cc: Richard W. Lyman Blind copies to: Reid Briggs, Dave Glen, M. Goto, Paul Hanna, Ron Herring, William F. Miller, Daryl Pearson STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 •t^POi IP'^

ENTER FOR RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES open House. 549 Salviiicrra Street

December 23, 1976

Mr. Hiroshi Majima President Nissan Motor Company, U.S.A. 18501 South Figueroa Street Carson, California 90744

Dear Mr. Majima:

President Lyman has given me copies of Mr. Kawamata's letter to him of December 8 and his reply of December 22, 1976. He arrangements for has also asked that I write you with respect to further the announcement and presentation of the Nissan gift.

appreciative May I say first, however, how deeply my Hanna- colleagues and I are for this splendid grant by Nissan. The Honeycomb House will be a most impressive testimonial to the cordial and mutually beneficial relationships between our two countries as well as to Nissan's enduring contributions to this relationship.

So far as the details of the public announcement are con- Service. I concerned, I am at your service, as is the Stanford News at your will plan to visit you at your Southern California headquarters this respect. earliest convenience. I will await your instructions in

For your convenience my office telephone number is Please do not (415) 497-3347 and my home number is (415) 851-2483. Christmas hesitate to call me at either. I will be in town throughout the and New Year holidays.

My best regards and, again, my thanks for Nissan's generosity to Stanford.

Sincerely yours.

Robert E. Ward Director mh/cc: Richard W. Lyman K. Kawamata Blind copies to: Reid Briggs, Dave Glen, M. Goto,yPaul Hanna, Ron Herring, William F. Miller, Daryl Pearson STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 760126 CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Ropen House. 549 Salvaiiem Stre«

December 23, 1976

Mr. Yutaka Katayama Nissan Motor Company, U.S.A. 18501 South Figueroa Street Carson, California 90744

Dear Mr. Katayama:

President Lyman has passed on to me a copy of Mr. Kawamata's letter announcing the Nissan gift of $500, 000 to Stanford University to maintain, preserve, and improve Hanna-Honeycomb House. He has also asked me to represent Stanford in the further arrangements for the announcement and presentation of the grant. I have written Mr. Majima to this effect.

My first thought, however, was to write you this letter of profound gratitude and thanks for your role in arranging this splendid probably Reid gift. I am probably better aware than anyone, save Briggs, just how much we owe to your encouragement and long-continued support for the Stanford request. It is completely clear to me that without these, this happy outcome would simply not have occurred. I have made this clear to my colleagues at Stanford and, on their behalf and my own, I would like to assure you of our deep gratitude.

This gift is a splendid one which will serve as a fitting commemoration of the enduring friendship between our two countries and of Nissan's contribution thereto. Stanford will cherish it for many years with the results to come. I hope that you share our pleasure and pride of this joint effort.

With warm regards and deep gratitude.

Sincerely yours.

Robert E. Ward Director

mh/cc: Richard W. Lyman .

December 26, 1976

Phone Notes : Goto to Hanna

(Hanna informing Pearson)

1. Efforts are underway in Tokyo to have Toyota, Honda,

and a third motor company jointly provide the funds to

endow the Distinguished Visiting University Professorship

who would reside in Hanna-Honeycomb House.

2. Stanford should prepare presentations for these

Japanese companies

3. Stanford representative should confer with Nissan Motor

Company in U.S.A. regarding press releases on one-half

million dollar gift to Stanford for house endowment.

4. Hanna urged to go to Tokyo to assist in negotiations with

three motor companies for endowment for Professorship. ?IB01?8 STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 94305

December 30, 1976

Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna 20 Pearce Mitchell Place Stanford, California 94305

Dear Jean and Paul:

In advance of our January 4 meeting, I want to put into writing my very best thanks for your part in obtaining that most welcome gift from Nissan. Several people were involved in the effort, but you played the principal role and are to be commended. (That's putting it mildly!)

Your personal generosity and your help over the years as volunteers in winning contributions from others are stellar examples of the kind of active support and service absolutely indispensable to the University.

Thanks very, very much. Yours ever. 76G1?9

Stanford University Prepared by: DHP : EW Office of the General Secretary TO: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD DATE: 12/30/76 SUBJECT: Hanna - Honeycomb House -- Distinguished Visiting Professorship

On December 22 I met with President Lyman and Provost Miller to review the fundraising priority assigned to the Distinguished Visiting Professorship referred to above. These decisions were made:

The priority assigned remains the same, that is, "Priority." Efforts to obtain the $1,000,000 endowment are to continue, and it is in order to solicit large gifts even if they are less than $1,000,000. However, no gift for less than $1,000,000 is to be accepted unless the terms of the gift include provision for an alternate use (or return of the gift) if the full $1,000,000 is not obtained. Proposals for gifts of less than $1,000,000 should make this clear. It is also to be made clear, before accepting gifts of less than $1,000,000, that the University will not commit* to trying forever to obtain the full $1,000,000.

No specific number of years was discussed, but I suggest a maxi- mum of five years of effort be used in talking with prospective donors. The five years could be extended, of course, if, after another full-scale review, extension seems warranted. Moreover, it is to be clearly understood, and made clear also to prospective donors of gifts of less than $1,000,000, that because of the increase in costs since the $1, 000, 000-f igure was originally set, the amount required to endow the Professorship may be increased. However, the $1, 000, 000-f igure will remain in effect until December 31, 1977 when it will be reviewed by the Presi- dent and the Provost.

Daryl H. Pearson

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