BOARD OF TRUSTEES CARNEGIE LIBRARY OE PITTSBURGH.
OrPICE OP THE PRESIDENT,
CARNEGIE BUILDING.
PITTSBURGH. PA., December 30th, 1901.
My dear Mr. Carnegie
I received from you through Mr, FrankdT Mve $1,000.00 bonds to be given one each to Mr. Beatty, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Archer, which it will give me a great deal of pleasure to deliver.
I am in receipt from you of a letter written you by Mr. Ci* D i Finest one, I in regard to the Carriage Builders Technical School. I will file it with a great many other suggestions :. to be considered at the proper time.
I am also in receipt of a letter to you from Mr. Charles W. Scovel, suggesting that you purchase the Archer library for the Carnegie Institute, on the back of which appears your suggestion "Perhaps Trustees will buy library having double the old fund." The Music Hall is controlled by the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Library, not Institute, and is maintained out of the annual appropriation by the City. It would probably be considered by the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute as outside of their province to use money in their hands given for specific purposes
in the purchase of a musical library for the use of the other Board. The Library Board might take the chance of being criticised in making such a use of the City's money* uif they h*ve funds on hands to do but they very rarely , if ever, have any surplus over and c above the amount necessary to properly maintain the Library system.
Very trul^ yours,
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ly yours,
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