Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letters to Charles H. Tweed
Description
Also: memorandum for preparation of trial Huntington v. Kneeland; copies of letters from John M. Thompson Co. to Tompkins McIlvaine, 1903 January 8, 12. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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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Enclosure: 1903 February 2 letter had letter from Baker, Botts, Baker & Lovett to Tweed, 1903 January 26 and petition of Charles L. Wallis for appointment as administration of estate of Collis P. Huntington in Texas, 1903 January 20; 1904 April 22 had memorandum from Maxwell Evarts to Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington, 1904 April 21; 1904 July 5 letter had copy of letter from J.W. Terry to Tweed, 1904 June 28; 1905 October 30 letter had letter from Tweed to John E. Parsons, 1905 October 30. Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Tweed, 1902 December 27; copy of letter from Tompkins, McIlvaine to Tweed, 1905 July 17; copy of telegram from Huntington to Tweed, 1905 October 18; copy of letter from Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine to Tweed, 1905 October 21; copy of letter from John E. Parsons to Tweed, 1905 October 25; copy of letter from Tweed to Parsons, 1905 October 26. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York property.
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.
