Manuscripts

Clara A.E. Seaton letter to Henry E. Huntington Library

Description: Enclosed in: letter from Henry E. Huntington and Art Gallery to Collis Huntington Holladay, 1950 July 17. Subjects: Huntington family, Stoddard branch.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1950 July 11
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.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery letter to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Clara A.E. Seaton to the library and art gallery, 1950 July 11, and reply, July 17.

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery collected by Mr. Culver

Manuscripts

Subjects: Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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William Hertrich statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to the…trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18. Subjects: Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to A.E. Erskine

Manuscripts

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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William H. Mills letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: 1895 July 12 and 1898 July 17 letters were in letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 January 18. Also: estimate of value of San Francisco property, 1896 August; record of passes issued on Central Pacific Railroad during 44 weeks, 1897. Subjects: Pacific Improvement Co., Market Street Railway Co.

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A.S. Baldwin letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Subjects: Collis P. Huntington estate.

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Clara A.E. Seaton letter to Henry E. Huntington Library

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