[Rarebooks] FS: Andrew Carnegie Inscribed to his Gardener

[Charles Agvent]

CARNEGIE, Andrew. AN AMERICAN FOUR-IN-HAND IN BRITAIN. New York: Charles 
Scribner's Sons, 1914. Reprint. Decorated red cloth. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Robert Scott/with kind 
regards/Andrew Carnegie/Oct 19th 1918." Robert Scott was Carnegie's 
gardener at ShadoR-brook and was in charge of floral arrangements at 
Carnegie's funeral. Laid in is a small original black-and-white 
photograph of Carnegie and Scott's father planting a commemorative tree 
with Scott's pencil notes on the verso. Also laid in is a black-bordered 
calling card of Mrs. Carnegie's with the following holograph additions, 
likely in her hand: "With kindest greetings to Peggy" and below her name 
"Mr. & Mrs. Roswell Miller." Margaret Carnegie, the only child of Andrew 
Carnegie, was 21 when her father died. Her marriage to Roswell Miller 
ended in divorce. Minor sunning to spine. Near Fine.         $1,500.00

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