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1. The Final version of the first Deed of Gift to the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 10, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
2. Invitation to the first meeting sent to each of 28 trustees
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 7, 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
3. Letter to Andrew Carnegie
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: June 24, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
- Abstract: In this letter immediately following the Corporation's approval by the Assembly and the Governor of the State of New York, Elihu Root praises the charter and discusses future plans for the Corporation.
4. Manuscript letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 5, 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie used to say that among all his donations his private pension list was the one most dear to him. In this letter he asks his agent Robert A. Franks to bring the list to Scotland, so he could make some changes to it while on vacation.
5. The New Year Greeting
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: 1914
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
6. Pencil draft of the first Deed of Gift to the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 3, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
- Abstract: The first pencil draft and the final version of Andrew's first deed of gift to the Corporation. During 1911 and 1912, Carnegie gave the Corporation $125 million in three separate gifts, making it the largest single philanthropic trust ever established up to that time.
7. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie
Pierce, William L.
- Name: Pierce, William L. (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: March 27, 1907
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 210
- Abstract: Fundraising letter for the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, an exemplary Progressive Era institution, the brainchild of a group of New York City reformers and philanthropists, and the subject of a 1911 documentary. At this time it was the only vocat ional school in the city for female students.
8. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 16, 1909
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
- Abstract: In this letter Elihu Root answers Andrew Carnegie's inquiry regarding his legal options for setting up a philanthropic trust in his will. Root's advice was to set up a corporation in his lifetime in order to avoid legal entanglements.
9. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: February 6, 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Letter from Pritchett, written two months prior to the founding of the Foundation, discusses the plans for the "insurance for institutions of learning," and mentions Frank A. Vanderlip (1864-1937) vice-president and then president of National City Ban k of New York, a future CFAT executive committee member.
10. Typed letter signed to Andrew Carnegie requesting a grant for Barnard College
Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
- Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: April 29, 1913
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 101
11. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 11, 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: The letter hints at differences in vision that existed between Andrew Carnegie and the CFAT’s first president Henry S. Pritchett. Carnegie saw the Foundation as an agency for payment of retiring allowances. Pritchett, on the other hand, hoped that th e Foundation would be “one of the Great Agencies…in standardizing American education” and put higher priority on the educational inquiry activities.
12. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: October 23, 1913
- Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
- Abstract: This letter to N. M. Butler discussed international arbitration and the Carnegie “Peace Fund” (i.e. Endowment for International Peace”). Carnegie ends the letter with his characteristic optimism “The task of Peace Fund is the abolition of man killing man…After its conquest, but not till then – next!”
13. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 5, 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
- Abstract: In this letter to Robert A. Franks, the president and director of the Carnegie Home Trust Company, Andrew Carnegie provides the first details on funding and payment arrangements for the Home Trust Company.
14. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 5, 1908
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3
- Abstract: One of several hundred letters from Andrew Carnegie to Robert A. Franks authorizing payments for various charity causes. The letters were then stamped with transaction numbers, and transactions were recorded in various financial journals depending on the kind of donation. Separate journals were kept for donations to libraries, church organs, and educational institutions.
15. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Elizabeth Haldans
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 5, 1897
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Carnegie began his private list of pensioners in 1881. The list included persons of distinction from all fields – arts, politics, social service, education – who were in need. Other pensioners were his family members, figures from his earlier life, an d former work associates.
16. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Martha B. Hixon
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 7, 1919
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: One of the last documents signed by Andrew Carnegie deals with yet another addition to his private pension list. At the time of his death on August 11, 1919 the list included 409 people.
17. Typed letter, signed, to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: January 13, 1913
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: In this letter Carnegie announces a new Division of Educational Research within the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching with its own $1,250,000 endowment.
18. Typed Letter to David Homer Bates, signed with Ms. Note by Carnegie
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December, 16 1907
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Carnegie was a founder of the US Military Telegraph Corps of the Civil War. In 1907, upon request from David Homer Bates, the secretary of the Society of the United States Military Telegraph Corps, he established pensions for them; in a few years he e xtended pensions to their widows as well.