Caroline tells us that, whilst working in a cotton mill, Carnegie had made use of the library of a Colonel James Anderson, which was open to working boys on Saturday evenings, and a passion for libraries was born. He went on to make lucrative investments in railways and steel and by his death had given away $350 million in philanthropy. The people of Greenwich still reap the benefits of this philanthropy, in the form of Sir A B Thomas' West Greenwich Library and Sydney R J Smith's East Greenwich Library.
For more, see http://www.thegreenwichphantom.co.uk/2009/08/greenwichs-alternative-domes-3/
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