Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Wright Cycle Company. Accompanied by envelope with a 2-cent Washington stamp, cancellations and postmarks (the postmark on the verso of the envelope reads: New York, N.Y. Sta. I, Nov. 25, 5 PM, 1905").
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 39088020039525) is the gift of H.W. Lende, Jr. and has Lende accession number W-21.
SCDIRB copy has source: Christie's, New York, Sale 7378, Lot 140, December 5, 1991.
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 Dienstbach discussing details of flight tests made at Huffman Prairie, Ohio, in the fall of 1905, and noting the Wright brothers' decision to discontinue tests in order to maintain secrecy regarding their flyer's construction.