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


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

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    Subjects: water company bonds.

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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 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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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    Edward A. Adams letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copy of Certificate of Incorporation of the Association for the Establishment of Maintenance…of Museum of the Peaceful Arts, 1913 December 24, and copy of Adams letter to P.W. French & Co., 1923 March 1, and telegram from Huntington to Adams, 1923 October 22. Subjects: Old Dominion Land Co., Newport News Shipbuilding and Day Dock Co., Newport News Light & Water Co., upcoming meetings, Chateau Beauregard, furniture sent to Los Angeles, and Hammond Lumber Company dividends. Some on Huntington letterhead. 35 pieces.

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    Edward A. Adams letters to Charles E. Graham

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    Also: copy of memorandum from Adams to Graham, 1923 September 18. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's personal business affairs, Newport News & Mississippi Valley Company, Arabella Huntington's travels. Several are on Henry E. Huntington's letterhead.

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    Edward A. Adams letter to Delaware & Hudson Co

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    Also: Printed invitations for 100th anniversary celebration dinner to Henry E. Huntington, 1923 April 23. On Henry E. Huntington's letterhead.

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