A unique example of another type of narrative is a body of correspondence addressed to Ple_nik between 1920 and 1956 by the President's daughter, Alice Garrigue Masaryk (1879-1966), who represented her father in his role as patron and served as a conduit between him, the Castle Building Administration and Ple_nik himself. A close reading of these letters explores to interrogate the role of language in both the transmission of tradition and in the actual process of architectural making and constitutes an original contribution to scholarship.