Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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51 items. Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad, J. Kruttschnitt, Mrs. Stanford, Carson City, Nevada, Hawaii, Hotel Del Monte, passes for Chinese consul, A.K. Grim, Louis H. Mulligan, Guatemala Central Railroad Co., Southern Pacific Co., Oakland street railways, LA Times-Mirror Co., Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francsico, shipping to Japan, Empire Coal Co., coal shipments, Chinese cargo, J.A. Fillmore, Central Pacific Railroad, California Golden Jubilee.
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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68 items. Also: letter from A.K. Grim to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 September 8; note by A.B. Worthington; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Frank A. Miller, 1897 October 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Puget Sound coal mines, Oakland waterfront, employee relations, Union Colliery Co., Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ensign Manufacturing Co., Vancouver lands, fruit shipped, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Carson City, Nevada, coal freight rates, Hotel Del Monte, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Frank A. Miller, Mission Inn, Riverside, Owen's Lake, "Sunset Limited," Central Pacific Railroad, Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
52 items. Enclosure: 1897 October 18 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to C.S. Mellen, 1897 October 8; 1897 October 22 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 October 18. Also: copy of statement of earnings "Sunset Limited," 1896-1897. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Pacific Improvement Co., coal freights, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Market Street Railway, coal freights, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, Central Pacific Railroad stock, Oakland Railway, Hotel del Monte, Carson City Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Oakland waterfront.
49 items. Also: typewritten excerpt from diary of Alban N. Towne, 1894 February 14; copy of letter by Henry E. Huntington to William H. Mills, 1897 November 4; copy of statement of costs and profits of Ione Coal & Iron Co., 1897 November 19; copy of excerpts from articles from the San Francisco Examiner and The Chronicle, 1894-1897. Subjects: South Pacific Coast Railway, Jane Stanford and Southern Pacific Co., Oakland Railway, Market Street Railway, railroad passes for Chinese consul, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Pacific Improvement Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Carson & Colorado Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
64 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to D.B. Hodgsdon, 1900 June 2 and copy of letter from Hodgsdon to Huntington, 1900 May 18; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Julius Kruttschnitt, 1900 June 25. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Guatemala Central Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Sonora Railroad, Southern Pacific of Arizona, Central Pacific Railroad, Oregon & California Railroad, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Oakland Railway, J. Cosgrave, "The Wave," and J.P. Brown, Epes Randolph, Union Pacific, Chinese quarantine, Galveston news, J.P. Jones and Santa Monica, O.L. Spaulding, Pacific Improvement Co.
69 items. Subjects: Oakland street railways, Southern Pacific Co. stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Douty, George Crocker, Elwood Cooper, Sonora coal mines, Houston & Texas Central Railroad, San Carlos Reservation, San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, replacement for Charles F. Crocker, Utah iron and coal mines, use of Rio Grande, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Barney & Smith Co., Central Pacific Railroad, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, California elections, Mrs. Stanford's shares.
68 items. Also: copy of financial report of Nevada-California-Oregon Railway; Resolution re: bond issue of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. of New Mexico; copy of memo showing lot sold by Mrs. Darling; copy of telegram with note by Julius Kruttschnitt; letter from S.P. Doane to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 December 3; invoice for two paintings by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 December 19. Subjects: Santa Monica wharf, Central Pacific Railroad, California politics, San Francisco to Los Angeles railroad, Southern Pacific Co., George Crocker, Los Angeles street railway, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Pacific Improvement Co.
