Manuscripts

John Brockway Metcalf letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: copy of letter from William E. Dunn to John Brockway Metcalf, 1920 April 20. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920 May 8
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.

John Brockway Metcalf letter to William E. Dunn

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from William E. Dunn to Elizabeth Huntington Metcalf, 1920 April 15. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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Elizabeth Huntington Metcalf and John Brockway Metcalf telegram to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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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William E. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters by A.N. Kemp to Dunn, 1915 July 27, August 20; copies of letters from Huntington to Dunn, 1918 May 31, December 5; copies of letter from Dunn to the National Labor War Board for Los Angeles Railway Corporation, 1918 November 27, December 9; copy of letter from Paul Shorp to Dunn, 1918 December 20, and copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Dunn, 1918 December 30. Subjects: Huntington's will and business affairs, E.H. Rollins & Sons, Los Angeles Railway bonds, Pacific Light & Power, Otis bequest - advisory board, street railways fares, Metcalf debt, National War Labor Board, possible railway strike.

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William E. Dunn letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Graham to Dunn, 1919 July 23; copies of papers related to George D. Metcalf loan and property, 1919 July; copy of telegram from Graham to Dunn, 1921 January, May; copies of telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Dunn, 1921 December; copy of memo from Edward A. Adams to Graham, 1922 February 28; copies of letter and telegram from Graham to Dunn, 1922 March; copy of letter from Graham to A. C. Rearick, 1923 December 4; copy of letters by Dunn to Graham, 1924 March 10; copies of letters by Graham to Dunn, 1924 April 17, May 28, September 15, 20. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington, San Marino estate, Southern California Edison, Los Angeles Railway bonds, Huntington Land & Improvement Co., Howard Huntington's death, Pacific Electric, Alfred Dolge Manufacturing Co., Arabella Huntington's taxes.

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John Brockway Metcalf letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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William E. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Dunn, 1919 February 13; copy of telegram from Dunn to Huntington, 1919 February 19; copies of 5 vouchers issued by Los Angeles Railway Corp. for payments endorsed by Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1819, 1919; letters from Huntington to Dunn, 1919 November 12, 19; copy of telegram from Huntington to Dunn; copy of letter by Dunn to Charles E. Graham, 1919 December 31; copy of telegram from Huntington to Dunn, 1920 July 28. Subjects: Metcalf affair, War Labor Board, Zimmerman property, bids library work, labor problems, Los Angeles Railway Corp., Southern California Edison.

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John Brockway Metcalf letter to Henry E. Huntington

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