GLADSTONE AND MORLEY
MR. GLADSTONE paid my "American Four-inHand in Britain" quite a compliment when Mrs. Carnegie and I were his guests at Hawarden in April, 1892. He suggested one day that I should spend the morning with him in his new library, while he arranged his books (which no one except himself was ever allowed to touch), and we could converse. In prowling about the shelves I found a unique volume and called out to my host, then on top of a library ladder far from me handling heavy volumes:
"Mr. Gladstone, I find here a book 'Dunfermline Worthies,' by a friend of my father's. I knew some of the worthies when a child."
"Yes," he replied, "and if you will pass your hand three or four books to the left I think you will find another book by a Dunfermline man."
I did so and saw my book "An American Four-inHand in Britain." Ere I had done so, however, I heard that organ voice orating in full swing from the top of the ladder:
"What Mecca is to the Mohammedan, Benares to the Hindoo, Jerusalem to the Christian, all that Dunfermline is to me."
My ears heard the voice some moments before my brain realized that these were my own words called forth by the first glimpse caught of Dunfermline as we approached it from the south.1
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Publication information:
Book title: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.
Contributors: Andrew Carnegie - Author.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.
Place of publication: Boston.
Publication year: 1920.
Page number: 318.
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