Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Wright Cycle Company.
The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviators generally credited with inventing and flying the world's first successful airplane.
SCDIRB copy (barcode 39088020039442) is the gift of H.W. Lende, Jr. and has Lende accession number W-19.
SCDIRB copy has source: Sotheby's, New York, Sale 4387, Lot 1051, June 3, 1980.
SCDIRB copy is housed in an archival box together with other manuscripts from the H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection, filed in Dibner accession number order.
Summary:
Letter to the editor denouncing the Independent's inaction regarding an article falsely attributed to Wilbur Wright and asserting his right to "have my disclaimer published at the earliest possible moment."