Huntington Land & Improvement Company letters to George S. Patton
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Enclosed in: 1905 February 9 letter was in letter from Pacific Electric Land Co. to Huntington, 1905 February 10; statement of 1907 March 23 was in letter from Patton to Huntington, 1907 March 23; statement of 1907 September 28 was in letter from Patton to Huntington, 1907 October 3. Also: 13 statements of lots sold, 1906-1907. Subjects: California real estate.
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 February 2, 15, 16; March 2, 16; 1906 February 5; 1907 January 9, 19; sketch of "Philbrook's Sub-division of two acres in Lot 1, Bl. 39, Hancock's Survey;" blueprint copy of map, with color additions, of De Soto and Boston Heights subdivisions, Los Angeles; letter from Huntington Land and Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 20; statement of lot sales by Huntington Land and Improvement Co., 1907 March 2, 16-23; September 28; letter from Arvin H. Brown to Patton, 1925 October 19; copy of letter from Brown to Huntington, 1925 September 8. Subjects: Pasadena, South Pasadena, and California real estate, Pacific Electric Land Co., Arabella Huntington property in Santa Monica.
Also: letters from Patton to Graham, 1903 June 6, 24, November 4, December 16, 29, 1904 January 27, 28, February 10, 23, March 9, July 21, September 10, December 20, 1905 January 9, 21, February 23, 24, March 21 ; letters from Patton to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 June 25, 1905 February 20; statement of interest on property accounts, Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1903 July 1; letter from Patton to Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1905 March 21; letter from Westinghouse to Huntington, 1905 March 16; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Company to Graham, 1905 October 28. Subjects: real estate in California, financial accounts, Marengo Water Co., Howard Huntington, and San Gabriel Wine Co.
Fragile: Also: letters from Patton to Huntington, 1904 December 27, 1905 January 18, 21, 30, 31 February 2, 7, 9, 10, 16, 25, March 7, 10, 15, April 26, 29 ; letter from Pacific Electric Land Co. to Huntington, 1905 January 18 (signed by Patton); plan of 5th floor of Pacific Electric building, Los Angeles; letter from Los Angeles Land Co. to Patton, 1905 January 30; letter from George E. Pillsbury to Patton, 1905 January 31; letter from A.M. Parsons to Los Angeles Land Co., 1905 February 10; copy of letter from Los Angeles Board of Park Commissioners to Patton, 1905 March 6; copy of letter from Albert H. Schliebitz to Huntington, 1905 March 6; letter from Patton to Charles E. Graham, 1905 March 9. Subjects: property sales, moving of trees and shrubs to Shorb place, Chippendale property, Keller Tract, Dolge, palms moved to Los Robles Ranch, Pasadena Country Club, real estate in California, East Lake Park, Los Angeles Brewing Co., Huntington Land & Improvement Co., storm sewage at Ranch, San Marino land development.
Enclosures: 1903 September 9 letter had cost sheets of lands acquired for Pacific Electric Railway Co., from Los Angeles Land Co., and copies of correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and C.A. Henderson, 1902 August-September; 1905 March 2 letter had letter from John Earle Jarding to George S. Patton, 1905 March 1. Also: blueprint map showing lands acquired for Right-of-Way for the Pacific Electric Railway Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1904 May 20, May 21; copies of letters from Huntington to E.G. Wood, 1904 May 12, 25; letter from Huntington to E.W. Boehme, 1905 October 10; copy of letter from Huntington to Patton, 1905 January 24 and envelope advertising Huntington properties in Alhambra, California; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 27; copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 October 31, 1906 November 13; letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 October 30, November 8; statements of lots sold from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906-1908; statement of disbursements for Howard Huntington house from August 1906 to June 1907. Subjects: California and Santa Monica real estate, Pasadena Country Club, Oak Grove Improvement Co., San Marino land development.
Fragile. Also: letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 February 10, November 5, 16, 20, December 22, 1907 January 5, 18, 19, 23, 1908 January 8; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. 1906 October 31, November 9, 10, 13; report from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 November 3; copy of letter from E.D. Sturtevant to Patton, 1906 October 29; three sketches of lots on Ceres, Crocker, and San Pedro streets, Los Angeles; statement of lots from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 December 15-22; map showing Block D of Estella Tract, Los Angeles; letter from W.A. Hagans to G.W. Ward, 1907 January 4; letter from Los Angeles Department of Parks to Patton, 1908 January 3. Subjects: real estate in California, Los Angeles Railway Co.
Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1903 June 22, 26; July 3, 7, 20; 1904 April 14, 23, 30; July 1; December 17, 23; 1905 January 3, 17, 18, 19, 23; letter from George E. Pillsbury to Patton, 1903 June 18 and Patton's reply June 20; letter from P.A. Stanton to Patton, 1904 April 21; copy of statement of profits of Muir, Khurts & Henderson, 1904 July 1; copy of letter from Patton to M.J. Connell, 1904 December 12; letter from E.T. Cook to Patton, 1904 December 28; telegram from F. Howland to J.A. Campbell, 1905 January 10; press clipping "Golf Club of Millionaires" from L.A. Times, 1904 January 29. Subjects: Huntington San Marino land, irrigation, Huntington Land and Improvement Co.
