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(Andrew Carnegie to C.H. Sherrill, March 21, 1911)

MLA citation style
Carnegie, A. (Andrew Carnegie To C.h. Sherrill, March 21, 1911). no date. Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, William R. Oliver Special Collections Room, 1911Mar .
APA citation style
Carnegie, A. (1911). (Andrew Carnegie to C.H. Sherrill, March 21, 1911). Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_11746
Chicago citation style
Carnegie, Andrew. “(Andrew Carnegie To C.h. Sherrill, March 21, 1911)”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, March 21, 1911. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_11746.
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Title

(Andrew Carnegie to C.H. Sherrill, March 21, 1911)

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence
Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock, 1867-1936--Correspondence
Diplodocus
Dinosaurs
Argentina
Quintana, Manuel, 1835-1906
International American Conference (1st : 1889-1890 : Washington, D.C.)
France
Germany
Russia
Austria
Italy
Sa?enz Pen?a, Roque, 1851-1914

Description

A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Charles H. Sherrill regarding a letter received on March 16, 1911 from Sherrill requesting Carnegie donate a cast of the Diplodocus (Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, located in Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) to Argentina. Mr. Carnegie agrees to comply with the request. Carnegie remembers sitting next to Senor Quintana, future president of Argentina, at the first Pan-American Conference. Mr. Quintana mentioned to Mr. Blaine that he wanted to invite Carnegie to visit Argentina as a guest of the state. Mr. Carnegie states that Quintana's life was too short. Carnegie then writes that he will only consider giving copies of the Diplodocus to a place when requests are made by heads of state. He has given copies to France, Germany Russia, Austria and Italy and he highly prizes the acknowledgements he has received from these heads of state. He asks Sherrill to have the current president of Argentina (Dr. Saenz Pena) sign an application, which Sherrill can prepare and then ""it will be filed with the rest"".

Creator

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919-

Publisher

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, William R. Oliver Special Collections Room

Date

3/21/1911

Type

Letter; Text

Original Format

image/jp2; [1] p. ; 27 cm.

Identifier

Box F, Series 2, FF 20

Language

English

Relation

Andrew Carnegie Correspondence Collection
[C.H. Sherrill to Andrew Carnegie, March 16, 1911]

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For further information about the collection or a specific item please visit the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries website at https://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/portal/help.jsp

Contributing Institution

Carnegie Mellon University

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.