(BUSINESS) ANDREW CARNEGIE Autograph Letter Signed to Dear M

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(BUSINESS.) ANDREW CARNEGIE. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mr. Bright," explaining that he will be staying on his sister's island for a few weeks, remarking on his book's reception [Problems of To-Day, 1908], inviting him to Skibo Castle, recalling Bright's father speak in Dunfermline, and with an illegible 3-line postscript involving Bright and his wife. 3 pages, small square 8vo, third page written vertically, written on a folded sheet, "Dungeness" stationery; faint marginal discoloration to second and third pages from prior matting, folds. [Cumberland Island, Georgia and] Fernandina Beach, 23 February 1909

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". . . Glad you like anything I have written on Socialism. The book seems to have met a warm reception in Britain & Tauchnitz has taken it up on the Continent I see, where it is much needed. . . .

"One of my fond memories is that I was privileged to know your great father who was the favorite statesman of our whole family connection in Dunfermline where I was taken to hear him speak when only ten years old. . . ."