Manuscripts

H.C. Spiller & Co. letters to Charles E. Graham

Description: Subjects: water company bonds.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

H.C. Spiller & Co. letters to Edward A. Adams

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Subjects: water company bonds.

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Charles E. Graham letter to H.C. Spiller & Company

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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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H.C. Spiller & Co. letter to "Dear Sir"

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Subjects: Newport News Light & Power Co.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Harry Myers

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Also: copy of letter from H.C. Spiller & Co. Inc. to Graham, 1923 May 1, and American Railway Express receipt, 1923 May 1. Subjects: Washington Water Co. bonds.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Huntington Land & Improvement Company

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Also: letters from Huntington Land & Improvement Company to Graham, 1903 September 1, 1922 February 23, June 3, 14, 1923 May 28, 1924 August 22, September 4; letter and report from The Naples Company, Naples Extension Co., and San Gabriel River Improvement Co., 1924 September 18. Subjects: real estate in California, Marengo Water Co., Los Angeles Railway Corp., library book stacks, Santa Monica Ranch, Old Mill, Arabell Huntington account, Huntington's taxes, stocks, William E. Dunn, George S. Patton, Alfred Dodge Manufacturing Co. bonds, Redondo Co., and Paso Robles Ranch.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of minutes of Board meeting of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. and Hocking Valley Railway Co., 1923 January 30; copies of letters from Huntington to Graham, 1923 March 21, March 26, March 29, April 2; letters from H.C. Spiller & Co. to Graham, 1923 March 20, May 19, and letter from Harvey Myers to Graham, 1923 March 23; copy of decision Supreme Court, Huntington v. Lane & Turney; copy of letter from Graham to Duveen Bros., 1923 April 16. Subjects: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway stock, Huntington Library, Oneonta Library, Western Union Railroad, Arabella Huntington's Southern California Edison stock, Chateau Beauregard, Hispanic Society, Washington Water Co. bonds, lawsuit - Park Avenue tenants, taxes on paintings.

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H.C. Spiller & Co. letters to Charles E. Graham

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