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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington


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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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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.

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    Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    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.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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    57 items. Enclosure: 1896 August 20 letter had letter from W.G. Clark & Co. to John D. Isaacs, 1896 August 20. Also: telegram from Henry E. Huntington to J.A. Muir, 1896 August 1; two copies of memo "Political Aspect from Present Conditions," 1896 August 13; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to A.E. Bradbury, 1896 September 3; memo by John D. Isaacs, giving dimensions of furnace room in house at 1020 California Street, San Francisco, home of Collis P. Huntington. Subjects: "Sound Money" buttons, Japanese steamship line, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Edwin Hawley, Grove L. Johnson and California politics, Harriet Saunders Huntington, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Pacific Improvement Co., Republican party, death of A.L. Tubbs.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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    54 items. Enclosure: 1898 August 15 letter had copy of letter from R.P. Schwerin, 1898 August 10. Subjects: Clara Huntington, Oakland Railway, San Carlos Reservation and coal, San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Railroad, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Jane Stanford.

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    Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    38 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John S. Mayhugh, 1896 February 5, and letter from Mayhugh to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 January 28. Subjects: Rattlesnake Island property, Southern Pacific Co., California Pacific Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., sending oranges to Collis P. Huntington, Adolph Sutro, electric lighting for railroad cars, Oakland Railway, California politics, Colonel Crocker.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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    46 items. Enclosures: 1896 January 6 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Grove L. Johnson, 1895 December 30; 1896 January 7 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to W & J. Sloane & Co., 1896 January 7, and list of rugs to be delivered to Sloane; 1896 January 9 letter had copy of letter from W. & J. Sloane & Co. to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 8. Also: memo from W.G. Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 7; memo regarding railroad tie consumption, 1888-1895; printed map with handwritten additions on announcement for real estate auction, 1896 January 23. Subjects: Santa Monica Outlook, Los Angeles Times, California and national politics, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Rattlesnake Island, Grove L. Johnson, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Diego Mayor Carlson, funding bill, Oakland Railway, Prentice house, Ambrose Bierce, California Pacific Railroad Co., Pacific Improvement Co. land sales, Southern Pacific Co., interviews in the Washington Post.

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