May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
"I AM CONCOCTING NOBLE REVOLUTIONS" (BUSINESS.) CARNEGIE, ANDREW. Autograph Letter Signed, to Ms. [Elizabeth B.] Chace ("My Dear Miss Chace"), expressing regret at not being able to meet, and continuing with family news, the weather, his health and travel plans. 4 pages, square 8vo, personal stationery, written on a single folded sheet; soiling to upper half of signature page (not affecting signature). Np, 12 April 1876
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"It is too bad I cannot be with you Friday eve. I trust you will be very happy--very much obliged for your remembering me.
"We had fully expected some of you to have been here . . . . New York will be just right shortly & no doubt your mother & you will be down. I rejoice to say mother has been in splendid health all this winter . . . .
"My round the world trip forms more & more constantly a theme for speculation. I am rapidly getting the fever beyond control.
"Please remember me to Miss Clara when you write. . . . Tell her as she comes East we shall expect to be apprized.
Stewart's death . . . at 73--piling up dollars, saddens me. I am concocting noble revolutions--We shall see . . . ."
From the Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection, property of the Minnesota Historical Society (see Swann 2276, April 17, 2012).