Manuscripts

J.A. Wallace letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Maria Dominguez de Watson, Phineas Banning, railroad passes, Abel Stearns, Andrew Glassell, Southern Pacific Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895 December 27
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.

Henry E. Huntington letter to J.A. Wallace

Manuscripts

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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Henry E. Huntington letters to W.J. Harahan

Manuscripts

Also: list of passes returned to Harahan, 1923 February 23; letter from Harahan to Huntington and Arabella Huntington, 1923 October 27. Subjects: Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

51 items. Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad, J. Kruttschnitt, Mrs. Stanford, Carson City, Nevada, Hawaii, Hotel Del Monte, passes for Chinese consul, A.K. Grim, Louis H. Mulligan, Guatemala Central Railroad Co., Southern Pacific Co., Oakland street railways, LA Times-Mirror Co., Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francsico, shipping to Japan, Empire Coal Co., coal shipments, Chinese cargo, J.A. Fillmore, Central Pacific Railroad, California Golden Jubilee.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

49 items. Also: typewritten excerpt from diary of Alban N. Towne, 1894 February 14; copy of letter by Henry E. Huntington to William H. Mills, 1897 November 4; copy of statement of costs and profits of Ione Coal & Iron Co., 1897 November 19; copy of excerpts from articles from the San Francisco Examiner and The Chronicle, 1894-1897. Subjects: South Pacific Coast Railway, Jane Stanford and Southern Pacific Co., Oakland Railway, Market Street Railway, railroad passes for Chinese consul, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Pacific Improvement Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Carson & Colorado Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

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William H. Mills letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: 1895 July 12 and 1898 July 17 letters were in letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 January 18. Also: estimate of value of San Francisco property, 1896 August; record of passes issued on Central Pacific Railroad during 44 weeks, 1897. Subjects: Pacific Improvement Co., Market Street Railway Co.

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M. Parish Watson letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Watson, 1927 March 21.

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J.A. Wallace letter to Henry E. Huntington

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