. . Mrs James G. Blaine, 1887 As the Carnegies crossed the Atlantic the New York papers caught up with the news of the wedding and expressed interest in Carnegie’s wedding present to his wife. As well as a post-nuptial income provision of some $20,000, Carnegie gave Louise a house at 5 West 51st Street, New York.1 As soon as it was convenient, Carnegie sold Braemar Cottage at Cresson as part of the expunging of Margaret Carnegie’s mortal memories. The newly-weds spent their honeymoon of a fortnight on the Isle of Wight, now a flourishing resort island following the purchase of Old Osborne House in 1845 by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Uncle George Lauder, eager to see his nephew’s bride, visited them on the Isle of Wight and Louise soaked up Scottish history from him, elaborating on the foundations laid in her childhood encounters with the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter’s notable novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810).2 A few days were then spent in London where they received congratulations on their marriage from William and Catherine Gladstone.
