• Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
• George Jacobsen (compiler)
• Eugene Masselink (correspondence writer)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (correspondence writer)
• George Jacobsen (correspondence writer)
• George Jacobsen (client)
• Mrs. George Jacobsen (client)

Correspondence between Frank Lloyd Wright and George Jacobsen for the designs for the George Jacobsen House, Hudson, Québec

correspondence composed between 8 January 1949 and 28 April 1952

- This group of correspondence was compiled by George Jacobsen who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house for his property in Hudson, Québec. The group includes letters, telegrams and numbers 13, 14, and an unnumbered edition of "A Taliesin Square-Paper", published by Taliesin Press. The correspondence discusses both the designs for the house and the trip Jacobsen made to Taliesin West, Arizona. Although the house was never constructed, Wright sent two different designs. The first was based on his design for the 1942 Vigo Sundt House, and the second, a hexagonal module, was similar to the 1941 Roy Peterson House (Shubert and Whatley).

Letters and telegrams include typescripts with various coloured ink, pen and various coloured ink, graphite, stamps with various coloured ink and blind embossed stamps

sheet (smallest): 21,5 x 14,9 cm sheet (largest): 28 x 21,7 cm serial (DR1995:0001:032 - DR1995:0001:034 closed): 21,5 x 21,5 cm serial (DR1995:0001:032 - DR1995:0001:034 open): 43,2 x 43,2 cm

DR1995:0001:001-034

• correspondence
• journals (periodicals)
• certification
• contract documents
• specifications
• invoices

- The letters are in typescript and black or brown ink, or in pen and black, brown or blue ink, on white or yellowish white wove paper. Frank Lloyd Wright's stationary has letterhead at l.c. The telegrams are in typescript and black or purple ink, on white or yellowish white wove paper, some of which appear on Canadian National Telegram stationary with letterhead from u.l. to u.r. DR1995:0001:004:001-002 and DR1995:0001:026:001-002 have staple holes in the u.l. corners. DR1995:0001:009 has been torn in half. DR1995:0001:013 and DR1995:0001:031 have numbers, text and doodles, probably by George Jacobsen, in graphite on the verso.

dated - on all of the letters by Jacobsen, in typescript and black ink, u.r.: with date signed - on most of the letters by Wright and Masselink, in pen and black, blue or brown ink, c. or l.c.: with signature dated - on most of the letters by Wright and Masselink, in typescript and black or brown ink, c.r. or l.r.: with date stamped and dated - in various coloured ink, on the telegrams from Wright and Masselink, u.c. or u.r.: with date and time imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on most of the telegrams from Jacobsen, u.c. or u.r.: with date imprinted or stamped - in red ink or blind embossed, on Frank Lloyd Wright's stationary, l.c.: with letterhead stamped - blind embossed, over the imprinted letterhead, l.c.: "THE FRANK / LLOYD / WRIGHT / FOUNDATION / CORPORATE SEAL / STATE OF WISCONSIN" [within a square; DR1995:0001:015]

• architecture
• interior design
• topographic

• specifications
• certification
• contract documents
• invoices
• journals (periodicals)
• letters (correspondence)
• telegrams

© Joan Jacobsen; FLW Foundation

Contains:

• DR1995:0001:002, Letter to George Jacobsen from Frank Lloyd Wright, 18 January 1949
• DR1995:0001:007, Telegram to George Jacobsen from Frank Lloyd Wright, 2 April 1949