frederick j. kiesler, architect

Liebe, verehrte Miss Dreier: Eine wichtige Kommunikation von Dr. Kiep ist mir heute zugekommen. Er schlägt ein Frühstück zwischen dem 20. und 30. Januar vor und lässt Sie fragen, welches Datum Ihnen angenehm wäre.

Bevor Sie jedoch das bestimmen, möchte ich Sie jedoch sehr gerne in New York sprechen oder übers Telephon.

Das Interesse, das der deutsche Generkonsul der Idee eines Internationalen Kulturzentrums entgegenbringt ist unendlich hochzuschätzen, und ganz besonders in diesen Zeiten allgemeiner Engherzigkeit und Kurzsichtigkeit.

Mrs. Reed sagte mir, dass Sie in New York waren - schade, dass Sie uns zum Plaudern nicht angerufen haben; Sie wissen doch, wie sehr gerne Stefi und ich mit Ihnen zusammen sind.

Herzlichst Ihr,

1/8, 32, N.Y.C., 320 E 42, Mohawk 4-8361

Liebe Miss Dreier: Es war gar nicht schön
von Ihnen, dass Sie nicht zu meinem Vortrag in
den Club gekommen sind!

Ich nehme an, dass Sie mir böse sind, weil
ich von mir nichts habe hören lassen in bezug auf
das International Center; aber das ist wirklich
nicht mein Fehler, sondern der vom deutschen Kon-
sulat, da ich noch immer keine Antwort auf meinen
Brief erhalten habe, den ich wenige Tage nach dem
Empfang bei Dr. Kiep an ihn abgesandt habe.
Wie ich aber inzwischen vom deutschen konsulat
erfuhr, haben sich Schwierigkeiten durch die starke
Depression ergeben und es wird ein Ausweg gesucht,
um ein Komitee zu ermöglichen. Wenn Sie irgend
welche Suggestionen haben wie man ein solches for-
men könnte oder wen man dazu einladen könnte --
das wäre nur allzu sehr erwünscht!

Wenn ich mich nicht ganz irre war der Vortrag im
Women's City Club erfolgreich und ich wollte Ihnen
das berichten, da ich ja diese Veranstaltung Ihnen
und Ihrer Frau Schwägerin zu danken habe.

Mit vielen Grüssen von Stefi und mir, Ihr

2/22, 32, N.Y., 320 E 42, Mohawk Dr - 8361

frederick j kiesler, architect

DEAR MISS DREIER:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTER. I AM

SORRY YOU DIDN'T HAVE A MINUTE'S TIME TO COME AND SEE ME BACK STAGE.

NATURALLY I CANNOT LEAVE THE STAGE DURING PERFORMANCES.

STEFI AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND INVITATION TO MRS. ALEXANDERS,
BUT WE HAVE THE OPENING SESSION OF THE WRITER'S CONGRESS ON FRIDAY EVENING,
WHICH WE MUST ATTEND. SHOULD THERE BE ANY POSSIBILITY OF ESCAPING IT,
WE SHALL BE GLAD TO ATTEND THE PROGRAM AT MRS. ALEXANDER'S.

WITH BEST REGARDS,
FAITHFULLY YOURS,

APRIL 23, 1935

56 SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y.

MAY 13, 1937.

DEAR MISS DREIER:

WE WERE SO SHOCKED WHEN WE HEARD THAT AFTERNOON OF THE ZEPELIN CRASH. BOTH STEFI AND I REMEMBERED THAT YOU HAD SAID YOU MIGHT COME BACK ON THE ZEPELIN. WE KEPT THE RADIO GOING UNTIL TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, BUT COULD GET NO REPORTS OF THE PASSENGER LIST. WE COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR THE MORNING PAPERS TO LEARN THE PASSENGER LIST, AND YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW HAPPY WE WERE TO FIND YOU NOT ON IT. . . . THANK GOD!

AFTER GREAT DIFFICULTIES WITH THE EDITORS, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARCEL DUCHAMP'S PAINTINGS WERE FINALLY PRINTED, AND APPEARED TODAY IN THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. I AM VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT. I THINK IT IS A SWELL SHOWING WITH-IN AN ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. I AM VERY ANXIOUS TO SHOW IT TO YOU. PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS YOU ARRIVE.

I AM HAVING REPRINTS MADE AND SPECIALLY BOUND AND WILL S END SEVERAL TO MARCEL DUCHAMP IN PARIS. HOPE MISS ABBOTT FINALLY CONTACTED HIM ABOUT COPIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS.

WITH MUCH LOVE FROM STEFI AND VERY BEST
REGARDS FROM

FJK:H

July 9th - 1937

Dear Friends - Stefi and Kiesler:

I do hope that you are free to come
and spend the fourth week-end of July
with me and that you can come up on
Friday the 23rd.

I can have you called for from South
Norwalk in my station wagon any time
you say and since the trains to South
Norwalk run every hour about - you
I hope get here in time for dinner
at seven or seven thirty. If you
can get off earlier - all the
better.

Then there is an excellent train down on Sunday from Bethe which
leaves at 7.59 - and gets in at half after nine at Grand Central.
This would give us a wonderful two days and the evening of Friday

Nierendorf told me that Kiesler was called back to town during his
short vacation and that he was terribly pressed for time. It is too
bad that you got back just during these very hot days and I hope that
the heat was not too much for either one of you.

I had a letter from Duchamp wherein he arites that he had received
"the wonderful article (Architectural Record) on the Glass."

I have never heard him use such praise and I am so glad - for as I
wrote you it was an amazing achievement.
When you come up you must tell me whether I can but fifty copies from
you, for Nierendorf tells me that it was you - Kiesler - and not the
Architectural Record who had had to pay for the reprinting of it.
The only cases I knew the magazine was only too pleased to have the
reprint made for it advertised their publication. But maybe he re-
ferred to the binding and the interesting printing on celephane.

I do so hope that you can both come for for there is so much to talk
about - the Guggenheim Foundation - the new quaters of the Museum of
Modern Art etc. And above all the "wonderful article on the Glass".

Looking forward with keen pleasure to seeing you on the 23rd - beleive
affectionately

Columbia University
in the City of New York
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

July 12, 1937.

Dear Miss Dreier:

Thank you very much for your
note.

Unfortunately, on Thursday, I
have a very busy day at the Univer-
sity, and will not be able to be
away.

I appreciate your kind atten-
tion - but we shall postpone our
discussion until Stefi and I come to
visit you on the week-end of July
twenty-third.

Until then and with very best
regards,

P.S. Stefi will naturally write to you
more in detail about our coming out.

August 17, 1937.

Dear Miss Dreier:

Our examinations will be over Thursday afternoon, and if you are interested to see the students work, please let me know if you can be in town on Friday afternoon, at the University between 2:30 and 4 o'clock. I wonder what you will have to say and hope you can make it.

Yesterday sprang up another matter that I think will be of interest to you, and I will take the occasion on Friday to tell it to you.

I enjoyed our dinner with you very much. It is always like home-coming being with you.

FJK:H

June 23, 1950

Dear Kiesler:

I was so happy to receive the telegram from you and Steffi on Monday
following the Grand Party on the 30th of April.

I would have answered more immediately, but the Catalogue was not
completed, and we have been working like beavers to have the first
copy out before President Seymour resigns on June 30th -- we will
just succeed in having his copy presented to him on that last date
of his in office.

It seems incredible how long some things take, and it is a great com-
fort to know that it is completed and at least one copy will be in
President Seymour's hands before he leaves his office.

The general edition, I doubt whether it will be out before the middle
or end of July, and you must let me know where I am to send Steffi's
copy. Shall we send it to 56 Seventh Avenue, or to where you will
spend the summer? I think that you also will be very pleased at the
Acknowledgment which we have written for your cooperation back in
1927, and, of course, Steffi is mentioned as having helped me with
the biographical data.

I think you both will be very pleased with the way the Catalogue
turned out, for we were most fortunate to have Friedebald Dzubas turn
up just at the critical time to take charge of the Layout, which work
he does so beautifully.

I was sorry that you and Steffi could not come to our party at the
Yale University Art Gallery. It was really a lovely affair, and very
gay, and everybody seemed very happy and content, and Mr. Hamilton
arranged a very fine exhibition. There were two dummies of the
Catalogue, one in cloth and one in paper binding, opened at two
different pages which were the only printed pages in these dummies.

The general reception was followed by a dinner which the Société
Anonyme gave in honor of President and Mrs. Seymour and to which the
various members of the Yale University Art Gallery were invited,
besides the Directors of the Société Anonyme and such other friends
who had helped to make our work a success. We were sorry we could
not ask more than we did, but as it turned out we were 43 at one
long festive table which Mrs. Houghton, who is famous for her table
decoration, made most beautiful. It was also through the courtesy
of Dr. and Mrs. Houghton that we were able to have this final public
expression of the Société Anonyme, for you know, of course, that
now that the Catalogue is completed we are going to dissolve. This
is a legal process and may take a little time.