209. Wright, Frank Lloyd. Typed Letter Signed "Frank Lloyd Wright" in pencil to Lewis Mumford. The letter is a duplicate of a letter to Nathan G. Horwitt, prepared by Wright and sent to Mumford for his file. 4to, written on single side of embossed Frank Lloyd Wright Incorporated stationary, pencil corrections and annotations; light wear, creased at folds, Mumford's receipt docket at head.

[Spring Green, Wisconsin], April 11, 1932 [250/350]

"'Bon Voyage'To Lewis Mumford - Laurels are singularly becoming to Lewis Mumford-, the man Audacs honors itself by honoring, here today.I should be 'sitting in' to add my best to the laurels he already wears were there any money left in the world I inhabit - because I see in him the foremost constructive critic of American culture. His is the nearest mind to Emersons that we possess [sic] and the mind most likely to interpret to our country its own neglected ideals.He is not afraid.Nor will his social sense betray his sense of beauty because in the heart of him he is a creative artist, before all.All America will be proud to call him 'hers' before his day is done or her sunhas set.He is young in years and he is young in spirit.He is strong and brave.He is honest beneath and with his prowess and his laurels. Anyone might say of Lewis as Napoleon said of Goethe - 'here is a man'It has been said that Lewis discovered me.If he did I am proud of his company.I should have more faith in myself discovered by him than by any pilot that sails the uncharted seas of our troubled twilight - be it dawn or be it eve. During the next ten years we will know whether our culture is the twilight of dawn or the twilight of evening. If Lewis Mumfords work continues as it has begun it will be sunrise and not sunset.Audac ! His health! And may he return with more riches of the same kind.To him a good voyage and a safe return to us all."