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Arvin H. Brown letter to George S. Patton


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    Arvin H. Brown letter to Henry E. Huntington

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    Subjects: Seaver & Co., property in Santa Monica, and Arabella D. Huntington's estate.

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    George S. Patton letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 February 2, 15, 16; March 2, 16; 1906 February 5; 1907 January 9, 19; sketch of "Philbrook's Sub-division of two acres in Lot 1, Bl. 39, Hancock's Survey;" blueprint copy of map, with color additions, of De Soto and Boston Heights subdivisions, Los Angeles; letter from Huntington Land and Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 20; statement of lot sales by Huntington Land and Improvement Co., 1907 March 2, 16-23; September 28; letter from Arvin H. Brown to Patton, 1925 October 19; copy of letter from Brown to Huntington, 1925 September 8. Subjects: Pasadena, South Pasadena, and California real estate, Pacific Electric Land Co., Arabella Huntington property in Santa Monica.

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    Charles E. Graham letter to George T. Burnes

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    Subjects: Arabella D. Huntington's property in New York.

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    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft letter to George Davis Hapgood

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    Also: copy of reply from Hapgood, 1925 March 28. Subjects: Arabella D. Huntington's estate.

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    Charles E. Graham letters to T.W. Crowley

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    Subjects: Arabella D. Huntington's property in New York.

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    George S. Patton letter to William Hertrich

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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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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