Manuscripts
Correspondence
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains 675 letters from Charles Crocker to Collis Huntington and Huntington's secretary Isaac Gates written between August 1881 and December 1883. The letters were dictated by Crocker to private secretaries in San Francisco and sent to Huntington in New York City. The letters sent to Isaac Gates are adminstrative in nature.The letters explore Crocker's interests in banking, real estate, agricultural development, and mining. Most of the letters sent to Huntington are business-related, including Crocker and Huntington's interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and other railroads and mines scattered through the Southwest, Oregon, and Mexico.
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains 675 letters from Charles Crocker to Collis Huntington and Huntington's secretary Isaac Gates written between August 1881 and December 1883. The letters were dictated by Crocker to private secretaries in San Francisco and sent to Huntington in New York City. The letters sent to Isaac Gates are adminstrative in nature.The letters explore Crocker's interests in banking, real estate, agricultural development, and mining. Most of the letters sent to Huntington are business-related, including Crocker and Huntington's interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and other railroads and mines scattered through the Southwest, Oregon, and Mexico.
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Charles Crocker correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains 675 letters from Charles Crocker to Collis Huntington and Huntington's secretary Isaac Gates written between August 1881 and December 1883. The letters were dictated by Crocker to private secretaries in San Francisco and sent to Huntington in New York City. The letters sent to Isaac Gates are adminstrative in nature. The letters explore Crocker's interests in banking, real estate, agricultural development, and mining. Most of the letters sent to Huntington are business-related, including Crocker and Huntington's interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and other railroads and mines scattered through the Southwest, Oregon, and Mexico.
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Charles Crocker telegram to Leland Stanford
Manuscripts
Crocker reports that the telegram he sent to Stanford previously can now be dismissed as "wholly false," and the Union Pacific is "driving the work as hard as ever." Printed form, filled in.
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The Correspondence series consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and Arabella Huntington. Prominent correspondents include Archer Huntington, Caroline Huntington Holladay, Samuel Wood Holladay, Edmund Burke Holladay, Solon Huntington, and other Huntington family members; Edward A. Adams and Charles E. Graham, two of Henry E. Huntington's business managers; William Hertrich, horticulturist and superintendent of the Huntington Library grounds and buildings; and British art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen; Max Farrand, American historian and the first director of the Huntington Library; George S. Patton, Jr., family friend and business partner; George Ellery Hale; George H. Hapgood, Henry E. Huntington's personal secretary; businessman Isaias W. Hellman; Architect Myron Hunt; publisher Harrison Gray Otis; the California cattle company Miller & Lux; Comptroller of Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad, William Mahl; businessman Andrew Mellon; Collis P. Huntington's secretary George E. Miles; American physicist, Robert A. Millikan; architect and designer of the Huntington mausoleum, John Russell Pope; and Charles H. Tweed, chief counsel for Southern Pacific Company. There is also a copy of the autobiography of Benjamin D. Wilson. The correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and Collis P. Huntington is often in code and sometimes has a de-coded copy. They would also write letters or send a telegram several times a day. There are also several folders of telegrams and letters Henry E. Huntington received after Arabella Huntington's death, and his son Howard's death, as well as Huntington's letters and telegrams he sent out after Arabella's death. The series also includes some material other than correspondence, such as documents, bank books, receipts, invoices, financial documents, printed material, clippings, and other ephemera; some dealing with land ownership in Oneonta, New York. The series deals with Henry E. Huntington's family, health, estate, and many business ventures (railroads, land, shipbuilding), his art, rare book, and manuscript collecting, the creation of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and the estates of Collis P. Huntington and Arabella Huntington. More specifically the correspondence deals with the Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Pacific Electric Railway Company, Los Angeles Railway Company, Market Street Railway, and Standard Felt Company. There are also mentions of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Henry E. Huntington
Manuscripts
Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Gates, 1899 November 18; printed tax notice re: Collis P. Huntington real estate in Lexington, Kentucky; copy of agreement of Collis P. Huntington with Moletas Smith & Sons, 1899 October 1 and copy of letter from John Moulton to J.J. Gordon, 1899 December 16; memos relative to Paxton lands in West Virginia and maps of coal lands in Kentucky, New York, and Pennsylvania; copies of telegrams between Huntington and Gates, 1903 March 16; copy of letter from Huntington to Gates, 1903 April 7; copies of four letters between Huntington and Gates, 1903 April 15-29; and copy of letters from Huntington to Gates, 1903 June 29, July 2, 21, August 13. Subjects: Olympic Club bonds, Guatemala Central Railroad Co., Central Pacific Railroad stock, Southern Pacific Railroad stock, Pacific Improvement Co. deeds, Market Street Railway stock, San Francisco real estate, Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw property, and executive cipher book.
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