WRIGHT, WILBUR. Autograph letter signed ("Wilbur Wright") to Hart O. Berg, the Wright Company's agent in Europe, Dayton, Ohio, 4 March 1910. One full page, 4to, on imprinted stationery of the Wright Brothers, with several pencilled notes (by Berg or his associates) regarding response to the letter: "Copies sent Wrights Jan 31-10. Additional copies handed WW March 9-l0." WILBUR ON THE HORSEPOWER OF AIRCRAFT ENGINES "Your letter received. It is not certain just when one of us will be in New York next but hope to be there before Mr. Peartree leaves. "We have word that the new German motors are giving about 5 h.p. more than the French 108mm. The increase in size would account for more than two horse power. The Germans seem to get about the same as we do here in America. Please give our regards to Mr. Peartree....The Compagnie Generale writes that it has sent a statement of account to you. Have you received it?...." Letters, especially full autograph letters of Wilbur Wright, who died unexpectedly of typhoid fever in 1912, are of the utmost rarity. The bulk of the Wright Company's business correspondence was handled by Orville. Apparently unpublished; not in Kelly, Miracle at Kitty Hawk.
WRIGHT, WILBUR. Autograph letter signed ("Wilbur Wright") to Hart O. Berg, the Wright Company's agent in Europe, Dayton, Ohio, 4 March 1910. One full page, 4to, on imprinted stationery of the Wright Brothers, with several pencilled notes (by Berg or his associates) regarding response to the letter: "Copies sent Wrights Jan 31-10. Additional copies handed WW March 9-l0." WILBUR ON THE HORSEPOWER OF AIRCRAFT ENGINES "Your letter received. It is not certain just when one of us will be in New York next but hope to be there before Mr. Peartree leaves. "We have word that the new German motors are giving about 5 h.p. more than the French 108mm. The increase in size would account for more than two horse power. The Germans seem to get about the same as we do here in America. Please give our regards to Mr. Peartree....The Compagnie Generale writes that it has sent a statement of account to you. Have you received it?...." Letters, especially full autograph letters of Wilbur Wright, who died unexpectedly of typhoid fever in 1912, are of the utmost rarity. The bulk of the Wright Company's business correspondence was handled by Orville. Apparently unpublished; not in Kelly, Miracle at Kitty Hawk.
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