Manuscripts

Elmer Ellsworth Brown letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Huntington's honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, New York University.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920-1921
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.

Occidental College letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: honorary degree for Henry E. Huntington.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Elmer E. Brown

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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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: note by Arabella Huntington; notes re: family estate; newspaper clipping re: re-organization of the California Institute Associates for the development of the California Institute of Technology. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington becoming 1st VP of Southern Pacific Co., Chateau Beauregard, Oneonta, New York property gift, Henry E. Huntington's health, Caltech.

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Henry F. Osborn telegram to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of Huntington's reply, 1926 March 21. Subjects: Museum of Natural History, New York City.

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Charles H. Sherrill letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: New York University.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Botsford & Botsford

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Also: letter from Botsford & Botsford to Huntington, 1902 December 19; letter from Botsford & Botsford to Isaac Edwin Gates, 1903 June 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York, property.

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Elmer Ellsworth Brown letters to Henry E. Huntington

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