Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letters to Kate Smith

Description: Subjects: vases from New York, Duveen Brothers.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922-1923
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.

Henry E. Huntington Estate letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: copy of description of three Chelsea vases, from bill of Duveen Bros., 1922 April 6.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Charles E. Culver

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Subjects: Duveen Brothers.

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Murray K. Keyes letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Duveen Brothers.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: list of articles sent for approval; list of objects sent on approval; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen; black-and-white photograph of Turner's "The Marriage of the Adriatic." Subjects: Drouais' Bouchet family, Houdon bronze, Boucher tapestries, Guedalla and Lewis & Simmons case, Lawrence painting of Mrs. Peel, Washington portrait, death of Henry Duveen, Huntington's trip to Paris, Huntington's degree from NYU, Blue Boy purchase, Chelsea vases, Reynolds' "Strawberry Girl," Raeburn portrait of Sir Walter Scott, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice W. Brockwell, British parliamentary elections, Solomon collection, and James B. Ballard.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Note: 1916 November 2 letter has handwritten note by Henry E. Huntington. Also: balance sheet of Huntington's personal ledger, 1912 December 31; memorandum of Los Angeles Railway bonds, 1913 March 4; copy of income tax for Arabella Huntington; copies of financial reports and estimated taxes for 1915; memorandum relative to Raquette Lake Terminal property, New York; statement of Arabella Huntington account for December 1915; copy of income tax report of Huntington for 1915; copies of two letters from Duveen Brothers, Inc., to Graham, 1916 March 9 and statement of account, Duveen Bros. to Huntington, 1916 February 5. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington finances and taxes, Collis P. Huntington's death certificate, and Lewis & Simmons case. Enclosed in: 1914 July 10 report was enclosed in Graham letter to Huntington, 1915 January 18.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Sir Joseph Duveen

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Note: some are photocopies; originals in HEH Art Gallery archive. Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Charles E. Graham, 1915 March 5; drafts of notes in Huntington's hand; two letters from Duveen Bros, Inc., to Charles E. Graham, 1923 August 28, 30. Subjects: gates for San Marino Ranch, Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington, Arabella Huntington's health, tapestries, Chelsea vases, California weather, Huntington's account, exhibition of "Blue Boy" in New York, "Strawberry Girl," "Mrs. Bedford & son," "The Beckford Children," "Mrs. Munroe," William R. Hearst, stone and bronze statues, "Marriage of the Adriatic" (Grand Canal), four bronze statues at the front of the library, Chateau Beauregard, burlap for walls of library exhibition rooms, portraits of the Huntingtons by Oswald Birley.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Kate Smith

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