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.
