Manuscripts

Robert Simson letter to Samuel W. Holladay?

Description: Also: copy of accession slip about Simson letter, 1979 December.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888 December 21
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Amos C. Springer letter to Samuel W. Holladay

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Also: memorandum of agreement related to the Spring brake…for railroad cars; copy of letter from Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to J.D. Butterworth, 1882 May 16; memo about agreement, 1882 May 19.

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Samuel W. Holladay letter to Chris Alpers

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Laid in printed pamphlet "Open letter of S.W. Holladay…with a Statement of True Money principles," 1898 August. Also: pencil memo notes laid in second copy of pamphlet.

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Robert B. Ord letters to Samuel W. Holladay

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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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Samuel W. Holladay letter to Abram Curry

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Also: duplicate of letter and note given to Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express for collection from Curry.

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Pacificus Ord letters to Samuel W. Holladay

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Also: letter from Thomas Fallon to Pacificus Ord, 1874 May 19.

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Hibernia Savings and Loan Society receipts for Samuel W. Holladay and Georgiana Ord Holladay

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Also: notice of payment overdue, 1906 December 4, with note by Georgiana Ord Holladay.

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Robert Simson letter to Samuel W. Holladay?

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