Manuscripts

John W. Alexander receipt and terms of agreement for Sylvester H. Kneeland

Description: Also: 3 memos listing parcels of land in Yonkers, New York, and the value of each. Subject: Kneeland litigation.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1898 March 23
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Sylvester H. Kneeland letters to Collis P. Huntington

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Also: several demand notes for payments; copy of telegram from Bache to Kneeland, 1900 March 9; newspaper clipping re: notice of sale of Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, 1900 March 9; copies of telegrams from Collis P. Huntington to Kneeland, 1900 March 16, 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Sylvester H. Kneeland legal documents

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Enclosed in: letter from John E. Parsons to Charles H. Tweed, 1903 April 3. Subjects: Arabella Huntington and Tweed as executors of will of Collis P. Huntington.

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Coudert Brothers letter to Charles H. Tweed

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Also: copy of letter from Coudert Brothers to Sylvester Kneeland, 1897 August 4. Subjects: Kneeland litigation.

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Bellows & Warren (firm) letters to Charles H. Tweed

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Subjects: Kneeland litigation.

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Sylvester H. Kneeland letter to Charles Dillingham

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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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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Sylvester H. Kneeland

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Note: all copied from Collis P. Huntington's private letter book no. 4. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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John W. Alexander receipt and terms of agreement for Sylvester H. Kneeland

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