Letter from Edgar Kaufmann, jr. to Frida Kahlo, Mar 15, 1940

Typewritten letter on white paper with a handwritten note in pencil at the top, ink correction in the note, and inked signature.
Creator
Edgar Kaufmann, jr.
Recipient
Frida Kahlo
Language
English

Overview

This is a letter from Edgar Kaufmann, jr. (1910 to 1989) on behalf of the Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh, PA. The Kaufmann family commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house. Kaufmann is best known for becoming an architecture and art history scholar.

Original Document

Typewritten letter on white paper with a handwritten note in pencil at the top, ink correction in the note, and inked signature.
Page 1, Letter from Edgar Kaufmann, jr. to Frida Kahlo, Mar 15, 1940; NMWA, Archives of Women Artists; The Nelleke Nix and Marianne Huber Collection: The Frida Kahlo Papers, 1930-1954
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[Letterhead]

KAUFMANN DEPARTMENT STORES
INCORPORATED
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

[“125 volts
50 cycles —”
handwritten in pencil, at an angle]

March 15, 1940

Dear Frida:

I am enclosing a picture of the a combination
radio-phonograph, with a note on the side
of what kind of electric current it operates
on.

If you can use it I will be glad to send
one down to you as an Easter present. It
has quite a decent tone and the duty can be
taken care of at this end.

Yours truly,

Edgar. jr.

Miss Frida Kahlo,
Ave. Londres 127,
Coyacan, D.F.
Mexico.

encl.