Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
Description
35 items. Enclosure: 1894 May 31 letter had copy of letter from Epes Randolph to Henry E. Huntington, 1894 May 24. Also: memo by W.G. Curtis regarding Colonel Mendell and Santa Monica breakwater, 1894 May 23. Subjects: Market Street Railway, Crocker estate, Pacific Improvement Co., Southern Pacific Co. securities, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Oakland Railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co.
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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76 items. Enclosure: 1896 May 11 letter had copy of letter from W.G. Curtis to William Mahl, 1896 January 27 and Report of Taxes Paid in California by Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; copy of minutes of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Director's Meeting, 1896 April 14; copy of memo regarding right of way on Sacramento levee, copy of telephone message from Jack B. Wright, 1896 May 6; copies of letter from B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Adolph Sutro, funding bill, electricity in Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway annual report, James de Barth Shorb's and Dennis Spencer's deaths, Grove L. Johnson, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, Santa Monica, J.D. Spreckels, Hiram Johnson and California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Los Angeles Hotel, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.
45 items. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Stanford estate, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland ferries, Southern Pacific Company bonds, Henry E. Huntington's health, Pacific Coast Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, Market Street Railway, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Crocker estate, Capital Gas Co. stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Olympic Club bonds, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding.
35 items. Also: letter from T.J. Henderson to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 September 25, and copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henderson, 1894 October 5; letter from Mrs. C.S. Pierce to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 October 20. Subjects: Gaius Fish, Southern Pacific Company real estate, Market Street Railway stock, Paul F. Brown, San Francisco street railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica and J.P. Jones, E.E. Session, Highland Park & Fruitvale Railroad, Nicaragua Canal, San Pedro, Senator Frye, San Francisco post office, Pacific Theological Seminary, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Pasadena, California.
48 items. Also: letter from T.H. Callaghan to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 January 8; letter from George E. Miles to Alice Allen, 1894 May 7, with Southern Pacific Co. pass for 1894; letter from Martha A. Brown to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 7; letter from Salome Wahlbeck to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 16. Subjects: stock sales, Port of Los Angeles, Southern Pacific Co. offices, Edward N. Grant, Arabella Huntington's lost jewelry, San Pedro, Epes Randolph, Market Street Railway stock.
56 items. Also: note from George E. Miles; list of Central Pacific stock outstanding in California. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Huntington-Hopkins Co., Los Angeles Terminal railway property, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, George Crocker, S.P. Doane, Nevada politics, Santa Ana & Newport Railroad, Henry E. Huntington being elected Vice President of Southern Pacific Co. and Collis P. Huntington as President, Oakland Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, mortgage on lots of Willard Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Los Angeles real estate, Central Pacific Railroad stock.
54 items. Also: Blueprint showing proposed excavation and windows under music room at 1020 California Street, San Francisco, home of Collis P. Huntington; letter from Panama Railroad Company to R.P. Schiverin, 1896 June 11. Subjects: California politics, Hotel del Monte, Los Angeles Hotel, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Southern Pacific Co., Grove L. Johnson and Hiram Johnson, Oregon Pacific Railroad, railroad employee relations, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Market Street Railway, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, railroad strikes and amnesty for strikers, Carlton Watkins.
