Invitation to meet the Carnegies

October 1908
Ephemera

An invitation to meet Andrew and Louise Whitfield Carnegie with a personalized note to Kate Gleason and, on the back, a handwritten note from Kate explaining that she is not able to attend.

Invitation to meet the Carnegies

[page 1]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dickson White
request the pleasure of your company
on Thursday afternoon the eighth of October
from four until six o’clock
to meet
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie

[handwritten in bottom margin]
I can’t put you up but come)
love to see you and present you

[handwritten in side margin]
to Mr. Carnegie
& Mrs.  “
am asking no one else
out of town   HMWhite

[page 2]
Mrs. Andrew D. White.
Ithaca, N.Y.    Its almost as
much pleasure to have you remember
me as to actually really meet your
honored guests. I’m just in from
Detroit and too late to go to Ithaca

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  • 1900s