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This collection contains primary resources about Carnegie's bequests along with supporting explanatory text, that teachers will be able to use as part of their curriculum.
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(J.A. Poynton to S.H. Church, June 8, 1915)
(J.A. Poynton to S.H. Church, June 8, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Health, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Garmany, Jasper, Barrow, Archibald C., Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations
A signed typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton remarks on the improvement in Andrew Carnegie's health as reported by Dr. Jasper Garmany and Archibald Barrow and conveys his pleasure in having Church as a neighbor this summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
(J.A. Poynton to S.H. Church, September 24, 1915)
(J.A. Poynton to S.H. Church, September 24, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Death and burial, Carnegie, Louise, Obituaries, Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations
An unsigned typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church commenting on: Church's ulcerated tooth; the continued improvement in the health of Andrew Carnegie; the weather at Bar Harbor, Maine; and Louise Carnegie's appreciation of Church's letter (presumably of the 9th, which refers to a biographical sketch of Carnegie.) On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
(John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church, June 21, 1917)
(John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church, June 21, 1917)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Homes and Haunts--Massachusetts--Lenox, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, Lenox (Mass.), Vacation homes--Massachusetts--Lenox, Curtis Hotel (Lenox, Mass.), World War, 1914-1918, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence
An signed typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church, written during the Carnegies' stay at Shadowbrook in Lenox, Massachusetts. Poynton comments on: Church's letter on the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association; his regrets about having to discontinue their discussion on the topic of the Carnegie Institute; the improved health of Andrew Carnegie and his interest in ""all things, particularly the progress of the Allies."" Poynton also extends an invitation for the Churches to come to Lenox and stay as his guests at the Curtis Hotel. On Shadowbrook letterhead.
(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, April 6, 1917)
(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, April 6, 1917)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Industrial relations--United States, Labor world (San Francisco, Calif.), Equal opportunities
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton informs Church that he has not been able to show Andrew Carnegie a specified article on the topic of labor because he (Carnegie) was suffering from a ""slight cold"" but goes on to offer his own opinion of the article, revealing an anti-labor/pro-capital bias. Poynton also mentions that there will be a meeting of the full board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York before adjourning for the summer. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie. Includes penciled notation ""for reply.""
(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, August 11, 1915)
(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, August 11, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations
A signed typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton expresses pleasure that Andrew Carnegie is ""quite his old self again"" and also that the Churches will be vacationing at Bar Harbor, Maine. Includes penciled postscript: ""will write him.""
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, December 18, 1915)
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, December 18, 1915)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Death and burial, Obituaries, Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations, Associated Press
An unsigned typescript letter from Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton concerning a biographical sketch he had written to be provided to the press in the event of Andrew Carnegie's passing.
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, June 10, 1915)
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, June 10, 1915)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations
A typescript letter (unsigned) from Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton in response to Poynton's letter of the 8th. Church comments on the reported improved health of Andrew Carnegie and states that he and Mrs. Church have not yet made definite vacation plans.
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, March 20, 1916)
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, March 20, 1916)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie, Louise, Alexander, John White, 1856-1915, Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts, Everglades (Fla.), Winter, Museum exhibits, Art, Painters--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Art, Modern--Exhibitions
A typescript letter (unsigned) from Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton. Church expresses his pleasure in hearing of Andrew Carnegie's improved health in the Everglades and states that he had spent the entire previous day at the Carnegie Institute's Department of Fine Arts where the John White Alexander memorial exhibit was being held.
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, September 9, 1915)
(Samuel Harden Church to J.A. Poynton, September 9, 1915)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Health, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Death and burial, Obituaries
A typescript letter (unsigned) from Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton. After commenting on his reasons for taking so long to respond to Poynton's last letter, Church comments on Andrew Carnegie's improved health and offers Poynton a copy of a biographical sketch of Carnegie, presumably to be used as an obituary.
(Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton, May 29, 1918)
(Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton, May 29, 1918)
Church, Samuel Harden, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Travel--New York (State)--New York, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Franks, Robert A., Vacation homes--Massachusetts--Lenox, Lenox (Mass.)
A typescript letter (unsigned) from Samuel Harden Church to John A. Poynton. In response to Poynton's letter of the 27th, in which it is suggested that the Churches visit the Carnegies at Lenox, Church states that during his recent stay in New York he had been dissuaded from paying the couple a visit by Robert Franks due to the condition of Andrew Carnegie's health, but would most likely visit them at Lenox in August. On letterhead of the Carnegie Institute.