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Typed Letter Signed (“Frank Lloyd Wright”), 1 p, oblong 4to, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, January 20, 1943, to Pearl S. Buck, on Taliesin letterhead, matted with portrait and framed to 630 x 465 mm overall. In part: “My dear Pearl Buck: You don’t know me but I like your courage and your views on this critical war. I thought perhaps you might read the enclosed which isn’t far from your own mind, I am sure.” Wright is possibly responding to Buck’s 1942 speech at the annual Nobel Anniversary dinner, in which she was critical of World War II as “not even a war to save civilization, but only a war to save European civilization,” arguing that the west had no intention of designing a world in which the nations of Asia would be released from colonial subjugation. He could also be responding to an article she wrote in The New York Times Magazine scolding the Allies for failing to include universal human equality among their war aims.