Manuscripts

Mary Jane Stoddard Emmons letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

Description: Copied from original in possession of Mary Elizabeth Pardee Lewis, in 1929. Also: handwritten copy of letter. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington and Elizabeth Vincent Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1851 July 9
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.

Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter and copies of two clippings re: Collis P. Huntington from Oneonta Herald, 1870 and 1871.

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Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington letter to Elizabeth Vincent Huntington and Phoebe Huntington Pardee

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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Phoebe Huntington Pardee letters to Harriet Huntington

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Edward H. Pardee letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: newspaper clipping about burglary at Huntington residence in New York, 1901; letter from Adriana F. Cottle to Pardee, 1901 September 24. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co.

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Mary Elizabeth Pardee Lewis letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Lewis.

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C.C. Emmons letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., and statue of Collis P. Huntington in Huntington, West Virginia.

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Mary Jane Stoddard Emmons letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

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