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PROPERTY FROM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND LINDBERGH PAPERS OF AVIATION JOURNALIST, EARL FINDLEY
WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Typed letter signed (“Orville”) to Earl Findley (1878-1956), Dayton, 1 April 1939.
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WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Typed letter signed (“Orville”) to Earl Findley (1878-1956), Dayton, 1 April 1939.
One page, 267 x 185 mm, on his personal stationery.
Orville Wright's final visit to Kitty Hawk. Planning a journey to visit the sight of his 1903 achievement (and unbeknownst to him, his last trip to the site), Wright requests the company of his friend, Earl Findley: “I am wondering whether your duties as a corporal will permit you to take enough time off to go with me to Kitty Hawk about the 17th. If you can go, I will drive to Washington, instead of taking the train. I am writing this on my new typewriter, all by myself. So far I think it has done a pretty good job ofspelling [sic], though it is inclined to drop out a space once in a while. It tried to put one over on me in writing the date, this being April Fool’s day, but I don’t mind little things like that!” Wright comments on a radio broadcast, with a wry reference to the continuing fight with the Smithsonian over credit for the first heavier-than-air flight: “I couldn’t get very excited over the WOR broadcast. The only thing about it that worries me is your great distress over WOR paying so little attention to the protest of the exalted potentate of the Institute. I hope it doesn’t get you completely down."
One page, 267 x 185 mm, on his personal stationery.
Orville Wright's final visit to Kitty Hawk. Planning a journey to visit the sight of his 1903 achievement (and unbeknownst to him, his last trip to the site), Wright requests the company of his friend, Earl Findley: “I am wondering whether your duties as a corporal will permit you to take enough time off to go with me to Kitty Hawk about the 17th. If you can go, I will drive to Washington, instead of taking the train. I am writing this on my new typewriter, all by myself. So far I think it has done a pretty good job ofspelling [sic], though it is inclined to drop out a space once in a while. It tried to put one over on me in writing the date, this being April Fool’s day, but I don’t mind little things like that!” Wright comments on a radio broadcast, with a wry reference to the continuing fight with the Smithsonian over credit for the first heavier-than-air flight: “I couldn’t get very excited over the WOR broadcast. The only thing about it that worries me is your great distress over WOR paying so little attention to the protest of the exalted potentate of the Institute. I hope it doesn’t get you completely down."