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Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 001
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RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE HOWELL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING
July 26, 1902
Historical
1902 The newspapers having given repeated accounts of Hon. Andrew Carnegie's generous gifts for Free Public Libraries to various towns and cities all over the country.
W.H. Wood Supervisor of Howell, Mich. wrote to him at Pittsburgh in behalf of Howell, and later received a blank from his secretary making inquiries as to the needs and resources
of Howell. the first reply being considered too voluminous, it was repeated and produced the following.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
5 WEST 51ST
NEW YORK
May 9/02
W.H. Wood, Esq.
Howell, Mich.
Dear Sir,
Responding to your letters. If the city of Howell will pledge itself by Resolution of Council to support a free library at cost
of not less than a thousand dollars a year & provide a suitable site, A. Carnegie will be glad to furnish Ten Thousand Dollars
for a Free Public Library Building.
Respectfully,
Jas. Bertram ?Heg
Also on page image of notecard:
Shadowbrook
Lenox, Massachusetts
September 10, 1919
Dear Madam:
I have received your kind letter written on behalf of the Library Board and people of Howell and wish to send you my warm
thanks. These expressions of appreciation of my husband are very dear to me.
Believe me,
Sincerely yours,
Louise W. Carnegie
Miss M. Winnifred Brow, Librarian
Photograph believed to be of Andrew Carnegie