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A typescript letter from Samuel Harden Church to Andrew Carnegie acknowledging Carnegie's letter of January 14, 1908 in which Carnegie asks Church what he would do with five or ten million dollars. Church extols Carnegie's various philanthropic ventures and outlines how he thinks the 5-10 million dollars should be spent. He proposes that Carnegie ""take in charge"" and that there be a ""marriage"" of the Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute Technical Schools and the Western University of Pennsylvania. He outlines the different colleges within the Western University of Pennsylvania that he calls the ""seven sisters"" with an eighth department, the Allegheny Observatory. The assets of the Western University of Pennsylvania are also laid out. He notes that the Western University of Pennsylvania would bring to the union their charter that gives the right to confer degrees. The Carnegie Institute and the Carnegie Institute, Technical Schools did not have the legal right to confer degrees at that time. Church makes reference to John D. Rockefellers endowment of the Chicago University. He then outlines the programs that would be offered by the merger. The recently purchased land for the site of the new ""Pittsburgh University"" in Oakland a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. is mentioned in relation to its close proximity to the Carnegie Institute and the Carnegie Institute Technical Schools. Church lists four conditions that should be presented by Carnegie. He then provides a list of where the money should be spent and how much money is to be spent on the University (Western University of Pennsylvania), Carnegie Museum, Carnegie Art Department and the Carnegie Technical Schools. Church ends the letter by writing that it would be a great gift for the Founder's Day celebration in April. Penciled notation at top of letter reads: ""Use his letter to me and part of this"".