Manuscripts

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to Barr, Robbins & Palmer

Description: Also: letter from Barr, Robbins & Palmer to Leslie Huntington Brehm, 1941 September 18. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1941 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.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to William E. Dunn

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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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: memo relating to the Trust Indenture executed in benefit of the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: copy of claim of Ernest A. Bryant against the estate of Henry E. Huntington, 1927 November 5; note by Edmund Burke Holladay, copy of list of vouchers paid to Bryant, year ending December 31, 1926; inventory of stock of liquor in basement of Huntington residence and appraisement of liquor, 1927 October 28; letters from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931 July 2, 1933 December 1; copies of petitions from Huntington's estate; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to Collis H. Holladay, copy of Superior Court of California Order Settling 6th Account Current and Report of Trustees of Collis P. Huntington and Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital, 1949 August 2. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and Howard Huntington's estates.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to William Hertrich

Manuscripts

Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate and paintings "Pinkie," "Mrs. Henry Fane," "Countess Spencer," and "Lady Hamilton."

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Brown Bros. & Co., 1922 May 19. Subjects: Huntington Land and Improvement Co., and Howard Huntington's estate.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to A.O. Adams

Manuscripts

Also: copy of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to Charles E. Culver, 1927 April 12. Subjects: tax exemption status of Huntington Library.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to Barr, Robbins & Palmer

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