Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington Estate letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Description: Also: copy of description of three Chelsea vases, from bill of Duveen Bros., 1922 April 6.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927 October
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.

Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: list of articles sent for approval; list of objects sent on approval; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen; black-and-white photograph of Turner's "The Marriage of the Adriatic." Subjects: Drouais' Bouchet family, Houdon bronze, Boucher tapestries, Guedalla and Lewis & Simmons case, Lawrence painting of Mrs. Peel, Washington portrait, death of Henry Duveen, Huntington's trip to Paris, Huntington's degree from NYU, Blue Boy purchase, Chelsea vases, Reynolds' "Strawberry Girl," Raeburn portrait of Sir Walter Scott, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice W. Brockwell, British parliamentary elections, Solomon collection, and James B. Ballard.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Sir Joseph Duveen

Manuscripts

Note: some are photocopies; originals in HEH Art Gallery archive. Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Charles E. Graham, 1915 March 5; drafts of notes in Huntington's hand; two letters from Duveen Bros, Inc., to Charles E. Graham, 1923 August 28, 30. Subjects: gates for San Marino Ranch, Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington, Arabella Huntington's health, tapestries, Chelsea vases, California weather, Huntington's account, exhibition of "Blue Boy" in New York, "Strawberry Girl," "Mrs. Bedford & son," "The Beckford Children," "Mrs. Munroe," William R. Hearst, stone and bronze statues, "Marriage of the Adriatic" (Grand Canal), four bronze statues at the front of the library, Chateau Beauregard, burlap for walls of library exhibition rooms, portraits of the Huntingtons by Oswald Birley.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Kate Smith

Manuscripts

Subjects: vases from New York, Duveen Brothers.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: letter from May de Riedemann to Huntington, 1925 April 1. Subjects: Archer Huntington and house contents, Arabella D. Huntington's estate, Mrs. Frick visit, Reynolds, Constable, Gainsborough, Birley's portraits, John Russell Pope, Lady Colefax, Andrew Mellon, Italian art purchase, Chelsea vases by Roubiliac, Louis XIV rug, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Tate Gallery, Blue Boy, Hugh Dillman, LeJeune bust, Horace Harding, Arthur Secor, Jacob Wasserman, "Pinkie," Roger Van der Weyden "Virgin and Child."

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Baker & Chilton

Manuscripts

Also: autograph, signed draft of telegram from Huntington to Wiliam Hertrich, 1920 January 12. Subjects: tapestry furniture to Duveen Bros.

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Ladies' Home Journal letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Ladies' Home Journal, 1921 December 7; letter from Duveen Bros. to Hapgood, 1921 December 13. Subjects: "Blue Boy."

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Henry E. Huntington Estate letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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