WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Telegram to Senator Hiram Bingham, Dayton, Ohio, 5 November 1928. 1 page, 4to, Western Union form . - BINGHAM, Hiram. Two typed letters to Orville Wright, New Haven, Conn. 5 and 6 November 1928. Each 1 page, small 4to, U.S. Senate memorandum stationery . (3) WRIGHT "CANNOT IMAGINE KITTYHAWK A PLACE FOR PROFITABLE EXPENDITURE OF LARGE SUMS OF GOVERNMENT MONEY" Bingham, seeking a Congressional appropriation for a Wright brothers memorial, asks "whether you would prefer that official...memorial commemorating your Kitty Hawk flights should be strictly and appropriately ornamental or chiefly utilitarian Some...favor a memorial coast guard station....Please let me know your own preference..." Wright responds: "I feel diffident in advising on a matter in which I am personally involved. [I] have not seen Kittyhawk for seventeen years and would not want to offend our good friends there but cannot imagine Kittyhawk a place for profitable expenditure of large sums of government money. The NAA project is in keeping with my ideas...." (3)
WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Telegram to Senator Hiram Bingham, Dayton, Ohio, 5 November 1928. 1 page, 4to, Western Union form . - BINGHAM, Hiram. Two typed letters to Orville Wright, New Haven, Conn. 5 and 6 November 1928. Each 1 page, small 4to, U.S. Senate memorandum stationery . (3) WRIGHT "CANNOT IMAGINE KITTYHAWK A PLACE FOR PROFITABLE EXPENDITURE OF LARGE SUMS OF GOVERNMENT MONEY" Bingham, seeking a Congressional appropriation for a Wright brothers memorial, asks "whether you would prefer that official...memorial commemorating your Kitty Hawk flights should be strictly and appropriately ornamental or chiefly utilitarian Some...favor a memorial coast guard station....Please let me know your own preference..." Wright responds: "I feel diffident in advising on a matter in which I am personally involved. [I] have not seen Kittyhawk for seventeen years and would not want to offend our good friends there but cannot imagine Kittyhawk a place for profitable expenditure of large sums of government money. The NAA project is in keeping with my ideas...." (3)
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