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26. Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography, pp. 371–2.
27. Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, p. 347.
28. The Times, 23 August 1914.
Chapter Twenty
1. Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, p. 349.
2. Ibid., vol. II, p. 356.
3. Ibid., vol. II, p. 355.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., vol. II, p. 359. Jean Armour Burns Brown was the granddaughter of Robert Burns’s son Robert.
6. Ibid., vol. II, p. 360.
7. Peter Krass, Carnegie, p. 535.
8. Ibid., p. 536.
9. Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, pp. 381 and 382.
10. Ibid., vol. II, p. 383.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., vol. II, p. 384.
13. Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 1035; quoting letter, 21 Janaury 1918.
14. Ibid., p. 1040; quoting letter, August 1919.
15. Louise Carnegie to Hew Morrison from 2 East 91st Street, New York. Skibo Castle Collection.
16. Quoted by Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, p. 385.
17. Literary Digest, vol. 32, 30 August 1919, p. 42.
Epilogue
1. It was Andrew Carnegie’s daughter Margaret who decried her father’s ‘Santa Claus’ role; when Burton J. Hendrick was commissioned to write Carnegie’s biography for publication in 1932 she asked him to write about Carnegie the man not about his philanthropy.
2. J.P. Morgan is considered to have been the first to describe Carnegie as ‘the richest man in the world’. Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, p. 139.
3. Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography, p. 3.
4. Ibid., p. 33.
5. Ibid., pp. 89–90.
6. Herbert Spencer, Social Statics.
7. Burton J. Hendrick, The Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. II, p. 270.
8. Peter Krass, Carnegie, p. 121.
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239 volumes of relevant papers are held at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.
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Works by Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie wrote a dozen main books, several pamphlets and dozens of articles on various subjects. These are the major works referred to in the text:
Our Coaching Trip: Brighton to Inverness, circulated privately, New York, 1882.
An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1883.
Round the World, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1884.
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Autobiography, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston/Constable & Co. Ltd, 1920.
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Andrew Carnegie’s first biographer was Burton J. Hendrick, who spent five years compiling his two-volume edition of The Life of Andrew Carnegie, published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., New York, 1932. The whole, including a salary for Hendrick, was funded by Louise Carnegie.
Margaret Carnegie paid for Hendrick to write a biography of her mother, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Hastings House, New York, 1950. The project was completed by Daniel Henderson after Hendrick’s death.
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Wall, Joseph Frazier, Andrew Carnegie, University of Pittsburgh Press/Oxford University Press, 1970 and 1989.
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Winkler, John K., Incredible Carnegie: The Life of Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, The Vanguard Press, New York, 1931.
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Arnold, Matthew, Letters of Matthew Arnold, London and New York, 1900.
Bates, David Homer, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, New York, 1907.
Blaine, Mrs James, Letters of Mrs James Blaine, New York, n.d.
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Rait, R. and Pride, G.S., Scotland, Edinburgh, n.d.
Reid, James A., The Telegraph in America, New York, 1879.
Simpson, Eric, The Auld Grey Toun: Dunfermline in the Time of Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1997.
Simpson, James A., Dornoch Cathedral, Dornoch, 1978.
Sinclair, Sir John, The Statistical Account of Scotland: C
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Spencer, Herbert, Principles of Sociology, London, 1879–96.
Stuart, Dennis, Dear Duchess: Millicent Duchess of Sutherland, Gollancz, 1982.
Young, Douglas, St Andrews Town & Gown Royal & Ancient, Cassell, 1969.