Andrew Carnegie letters
name: label: Creator
content: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
label: Names
content: Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
label: Names
content: Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
label: Names
content: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
label: Names
content: Foster, Ben, 1852-1926
label: Names
content: Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
label: Names
content: Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892
label: Names
content: Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
label: Names
content: Salisbury, Frank O., 1874-1962
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.
creator: label: Creator
content: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Industrialist, philanthropist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1884-1936
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.carnandr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N4 (frames 1242-1280) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. Included are four from Edwin A. Abbey concerning the price of one of his paintings and accepting an invitation to visit, one from William M. Chase accepting an invitation, one from Ben Foster praising a portrait which Mr. Roche has painted of Mrs. Carnegie, two from F. D. Millet and two from Cass Gilbert accepting invitations, six from Frank O. Salisbury about a portrait Salisbury painted of Andrew Carnegie, one from Samuel Longfellow explaining that he mistakenly informed Carnegie that a watercolor was by Lord Elgin when in fact it was by Lord Dufferin, and one from George H. Boughton writing for a mutual friend.