Letter from Elizabeth Burbank to E.G. Liebold regarding Donation of the "Little Office," March 23, 1928

Luther Burbank (1849-1926), a much-heralded American horticulturalist, gained a reputation for selectively breeding more than 800 new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants. He opened a "Bureau of Information" in 1910 to sell seeds and souvenirs, but it served other purposes over the years. Burbank's widow called the building the "little office" when she offered it to Henry Ford in 1928 for inclusion in Greenfield Village.