Manuscripts

Clarence R. Saunders letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Hoppner portrait.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 October 3
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.

Clarence R. Saunders letters to George D. Hapgood

Manuscripts

Also: letters from Louis Ralston & Son, 1925 June 16, July 3; copy of letter from Hapgood to Saunders, 1925 August 9. Subjects: Hoppner portrait.

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V.G. Fischer Art Galleries letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: printed catalog from Victor G. Fischer Galleries, photocopy of newspaper article about Hoppner portrait of "Mrs. Munroe," and other documents. Subjects: paintings by Raeburn, Reynolds, Constable, Le Brun, Boucher.

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Louis Ralston letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: shipping receipt for painting by Raeburn painting; photocopy of invoice for John Hoppner portrait "Marchioness of Worcester," 1911 November 13; photocopy of insurance policy covering shipment (originals in Art Gallery Archives).

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Clarence R. Saunders

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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Henry Saunders Jr. letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Saunders, 1926 February 23. Subjects: Oneonta cemetery.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Dennis Ryan

Manuscripts

Subjects: Columbus portrait.

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Clarence R. Saunders letters to Henry E. Huntington

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