Manuscripts

Arabella Huntington letter to Mary Alice P. Huntington

Description: Written and signed by Caroline Margaret Campbell.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895 October 5
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.

Arabella Huntington letter to Charles H. Tweed

Manuscripts

Written and signed by Caroline Margaret Campbell. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Arabella Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Letters written and signed by Caroline Margaret Campbell. Also: receipts for securities, including memo in hand of Henry E. Huntington, 1910 February 25. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.

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Mary Alice P. Huntington

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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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Mary Huntington Foster letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: Power of Attorney of estate of Solon Huntington, 1890 August 16, signed by Charles Willard Vincent Huntington, Caroline Huntington Holladay, Harriet Huntington, and Henry E. Huntington (in his handwriting), and assignment of interest by Henry E. Huntington to Harriet Huntington.

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Collis P. Huntington letter to Mary Alice Prentice Huntington

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Arabella Huntington

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Also: call tag from W. & J. Sloane & Co. for rugs and carpets in storage, 1898 June 23; copy of undated receipt; three financial documents signed by Arabella Huntington. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's accounts, estate, and house in San Francisco, Newport News Shipbuilding bonds, Reynolds' "Holy Family."

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Arabella Huntington letter to Mary Alice P. Huntington

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