Manuscripts

Cabell County (W. Va.) Bank letter to Robert C. Slaughter

Description: Also: memorandum 1920-1921 assessments, property of Caroline Huntington Holladay in West Virginia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921 June 13
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.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Union National Bank letter to Cabell County Bank

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Also: credit on account notice from Union National Bank to Caroline Huntington Holladay, 1921 July 25. Subjects: Foster Estate, West Virginia.

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Robert C. Slaughter letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: memo by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921 July 5. Subjects: Foster Estate, West Virignia.

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Robert C. Slaughter letters to Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: letter from Holladay to Slaughter 1921 March 31. Subjects: Foster Estate, West Virignia.

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Edmund B. Holladay letters to Robert C. Slaughter

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Also: two memos related to the sale of the Foster estate, West Virginia, 1921 July 14.

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Caroline Huntington Holladay telegrams to Bradley W. Foster

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Also: proposed deed to property in West Virginia, estate of Mary Huntington Foster; notes by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921, June 25.

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Bradley W. Foster telegram to Robert C. Slaughter

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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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Cabell County (W. Va.) Bank letter to Robert C. Slaughter

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