Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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34 items. Enclosure: 1897 September 21 letter had report by R.L. Fulton to Henry E. Huntington regarding nickel mines in Nevada, 1897 September 14. Also: two blueprints of sections of interior of Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco; copy of letter from A.D. Shephard to J.C. Stubbs, 1897 September 18. Subjects: letter of credit for Mary Alice Prentice Huntington, Southern Pacific Co., Market Street Railway stock, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Oakland waterfront case, Santa Monica, Vancouver, and nickel deposits in Nevada.
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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42 items. Also: copy of letter from J.M. Crawley to J.C. Stubbs, 1895 February 14; two copies of report on Oakland Water Company. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro harbor, railroad salaries and employees, Southern Pacific Co., Market Street Railway bonds, Collis P. Huntington's Nevada bank account and house in San Francisco, note of Mark McDonald, Oakland Railway, William H. Graham.
68 items. Also: letter from A.K. Grim to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 September 8; note by A.B. Worthington; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Frank A. Miller, 1897 October 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Puget Sound coal mines, Oakland waterfront, employee relations, Union Colliery Co., Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ensign Manufacturing Co., Vancouver lands, fruit shipped, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Carson City, Nevada, coal freight rates, Hotel Del Monte, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Frank A. Miller, Mission Inn, Riverside, Owen's Lake, "Sunset Limited," Central Pacific Railroad, Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
57 items. Also: reply telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 September 1; letter from E.B. Hamilton to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 December 28, and Huntington's reply, 1897 January 6; copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to A.N. Towne, 1893 February 11; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to H.J. Small, 1897 January 27. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Southern Pacific Railroad, Republican campaign, death of A.L. Tubbs, James Bailey property in Sacramento, funding bill, Grove Johnson, Vancouver lands, Oakland Street Railway, Colonel Crocker, Hotel Del Monte, James I. Felter.
52 items. Enclosure: 1897 October 18 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to C.S. Mellen, 1897 October 8; 1897 October 22 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 October 18. Also: copy of statement of earnings "Sunset Limited," 1896-1897. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Pacific Improvement Co., coal freights, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Market Street Railway, coal freights, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, Central Pacific Railroad stock, Oakland Railway, Hotel del Monte, Carson City Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Oakland waterfront.
Also: extract from "U.S. Geological Survey. Report of 1883 on cobalt and nickel deposits in Nevada." Enclosed in: Huntington letter to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 September 21.
38 items. Enclosures: 1897 December 17 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 November 29, and copy of letter from Huntington to Mellen, December 17; 1897 December 22 letter from J.A. Muir to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 March 1, and letter from J.W. Taggart to J.A. Muir, February 27. Also: clipping from San Francisco Examiner summarizing last will of Charles Crocker, 1897 December 21 and list of securities, with copy belonging to Crocker. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., hospital in San Francisco, Occidental and Oriental Steamship Co., exports and imports at Tacoma, coal shipments, fruit shipments, real estate market, California politics, Colonel Crocker's estate, J.A. Fillmore.
