Letter acquired by Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library in 2011 as a gift from the Museum of the City of New York, inserted inside a copy of Tiffany Studios' catalog, Memorials in glass and stone (New York: Tiffany Studios, 1913). That particular copy of the Tiffany Studios' catalog has the following bookplates: 1. Tiffany Studios, New York, no. 34 [number handwritten in ink]; 2. Removed from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, accession no.: 47.25.49
Summary:
Letter handwritten in ink on Tiffany Studios letterhead (address: 347 to 355 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y.) to Mr. Andrew Carnegie (address: 2 East 91st Street, New York, N.Y.), notifying him that a recently published Tiffany Studios catalog, Monuments in glass and stone, features an illustration of a window commissioned by Carnegie. The letter says a messenger will deliver a copy of the brochure to Carnegie, and that the window "is progressing rapidly" and will be set up in the Tiffany showroom for inspection in mid-May before being shipped. The landscape window, which may have been designed by Agnes Northrop, was created in Favrile glass and was intended by Carnegie to be installed in Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland, together with a Tiffany glass mosaic panel inscribed in the memory of his father, mother, sister, and brother
