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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.

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

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.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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