Manuscripts

S.J. White letter to George S. Patton

Description: Enclosed in: letter from Henry E. Huntington to Patton, 1903 August 18.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1903 July 24
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.

George S. Patton letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters from Graham to Patton, 1903 May 4, 9, 11; June 1; July 20; August 13, 18; November 16, 17; December 5; 1905 February 1, 3, 10; letter from Henry E. Huntington to Patton, 1903 February 19; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1905 February 9.

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George S. Patton letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1903 June 22, 26; July 3, 7, 20; 1904 April 14, 23, 30; July 1; December 17, 23; 1905 January 3, 17, 18, 19, 23; letter from George E. Pillsbury to Patton, 1903 June 18 and Patton's reply June 20; letter from P.A. Stanton to Patton, 1904 April 21; copy of statement of profits of Muir, Khurts & Henderson, 1904 July 1; copy of letter from Patton to M.J. Connell, 1904 December 12; letter from E.T. Cook to Patton, 1904 December 28; telegram from F. Howland to J.A. Campbell, 1905 January 10; press clipping "Golf Club of Millionaires" from L.A. Times, 1904 January 29. Subjects: Huntington San Marino land, irrigation, Huntington Land and Improvement Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to George S. Patton

Manuscripts

Fragile. Also: letters from Patton to Huntington, 1903 June 24, 29, July 9, 10, 14, 29, August 5; sketch of South Park Avenue, Los Angeles; letter from S.J. White to Patton, 1903 July 24. Subjects: Dolgeville, Santa Monica Heights, Keller Tract, Cooper Tract, Marengo Tract.

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Charles E. Graham letters to George S. Patton

Manuscripts

Also: letters from Patton to Graham, 1903 June 6, 24, November 4, December 16, 29, 1904 January 27, 28, February 10, 23, March 9, July 21, September 10, December 20, 1905 January 9, 21, February 23, 24, March 21 ; letters from Patton to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 June 25, 1905 February 20; statement of interest on property accounts, Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1903 July 1; letter from Patton to Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1905 March 21; letter from Westinghouse to Huntington, 1905 March 16; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Company to Graham, 1905 October 28. Subjects: real estate in California, financial accounts, Marengo Water Co., Howard Huntington, and San Gabriel Wine Co.

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George S. Patton letters to S.J. White & Company

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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Henry E. Huntington letters to George S. Patton

Manuscripts

Fragile: Also: letters from Patton to Huntington, 1904 December 27, 1905 January 18, 21, 30, 31 February 2, 7, 9, 10, 16, 25, March 7, 10, 15, April 26, 29 ; letter from Pacific Electric Land Co. to Huntington, 1905 January 18 (signed by Patton); plan of 5th floor of Pacific Electric building, Los Angeles; letter from Los Angeles Land Co. to Patton, 1905 January 30; letter from George E. Pillsbury to Patton, 1905 January 31; letter from A.M. Parsons to Los Angeles Land Co., 1905 February 10; copy of letter from Los Angeles Board of Park Commissioners to Patton, 1905 March 6; copy of letter from Albert H. Schliebitz to Huntington, 1905 March 6; letter from Patton to Charles E. Graham, 1905 March 9. Subjects: property sales, moving of trees and shrubs to Shorb place, Chippendale property, Keller Tract, Dolge, palms moved to Los Robles Ranch, Pasadena Country Club, real estate in California, East Lake Park, Los Angeles Brewing Co., Huntington Land & Improvement Co., storm sewage at Ranch, San Marino land development.

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S.J. White letter to George S. Patton

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