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[Samuel Harden Church to Andrew Carnegie, February 17, 1918]
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| Title | [Samuel Harden Church to Andrew Carnegie, February 17, 1918] |
| Subject | Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence
Astor, Madeleine
Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912
Slade, Henrietta
Titanic (Steamship)
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| Description | A typescript letter (unsigned) from Samuel Harden Church to Andrew Carnegie. Church recounts his conversation with Madeleine Astor, widow of John Jacob Astor, who had perished on the Titanic, at the wedding of Henrietta Thaw and Lawrence Slade. |
| Creator | Church, Samuel Harden
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| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, William R. Oliver Special Collections Room |
| Date | 2/17/1915 |
| Type | Letter; Text |
| Format | image/jp2; [1] p. ; 27 cm. |
| Identifier | Box G, Series 2, FF 25 |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Andrew Carnegie Correspondence Collection
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| Rights | Archived at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
| Transcript | box00007_fld00025_bdl0018_doc0001_01000001.txt; February 17, 1915 Dear Mr. Carnegie: At Miss Thaw's wedding yesterday afternoon I had a very plesant little conversation with yound Mrs. John Jacob Aster, the one who lost her husband on the Titanic. It wasn't long before we began speaking of you, as Mrs. Astor expressed & desire to visit the Carnegie Institute and she said that she had learned with much pleasure that you and Mrs. Carnegie had rented a house at Bar Harbor for this summer because she has her summer home there and she hopes very much to be able to meet you both. She said that she had had an idea till recently that you were a man of great austerity, but now finds out that you possess the charm of good humor. I told her she was quite right about that, so you may expect to meet one who is already your friend when you and Mrs. Carnegie see her next summer. Unfortnnately Mrs. Astor was required to leave Pittsburgh last night without giving me an opportunity of showing her the Institute, which I very much regret. Sincerely yonrs. President |
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