Manuscripts

Boys Club letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: letter from Stephen Raesch to Henry E. Huntington, Raesch was a child attending Boys Club, New York, with the financial help of Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922 April 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.

Henry E. Huntington letter to Boys' Club

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 Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

55 items. Also: two letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 January 10, 14; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 January 31; copy of telegram from A.N. Towne to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 February 9 and two pages of shorthand notes; copy of letter from George L. King to George E. Miles, 1893 February 16; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Davis Brothers, 1893 February 15; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 February 6, 8. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, transfer of funds from New York to San Francisco, Stephen Mallory White, Oakland waterfront case, San Francisco street railways, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Co. offices and staff, California tax decision and politics, Henry E. Huntington's health, Santa Monica Harbor, J.P. Jones.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

55 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to N.F. Smith, 1892 November 22; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 November 15, December 8; copies of telegrams from J.A. Muir to A.N. Towne, 1892 November 24; letter from Wilson & Wilson to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 23; copy of letter from T.J. Wilson to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 31; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 2, 29, 1893 January 6; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to George E. Miles, 1893 January 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's finances, Santa Monica wharf, Redondo wharf, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco street railways, W.W. Stow, California politics, Stephen Mallory White, Chicago lakefront case, Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Railroad, Oakland railroad, Central Railroad, Union Pacific, Henry E. Huntington's health, California Pacific Railroad Co.

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California Art Club letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: California Art Club member list, other printed items; copy of letter from Huntington to E. Roscoe Shrader, 1924 December 30.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

60 items. Enclosure: 1896 July 11 letter had copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to William H. Mills, 1896 July 11. Also: list of plumbing fixtures and fittings and Bill of Lading for shipment from New York; two telegrams from Collis P. Huntington and B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 July 23. Subjects: Southern Pacific hospitals, Nippon Yusen Kaisaha shipping, Collis P. Huntington gift to the YMCA, politics, the silver party, and William Mills, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Santa Barbara water supply, Willard V. Huntington, Grove L. Johnson, Hiram Johnson, California politics, California Pacific Railroad, financial and funding bills, J.J. Cullenden and Harry N. Morse (detectives), Henry E. Huntington's health, Toyo Kaisaha Steamship Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to N.T. Smith

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Huntington to Isaac Edwin Gates; copies of two letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 April 6, and undated. Subjects: Willard V. Huntington, Olympic Club bonds, Sacramento bonds, William H. Holabird, Collis P. Huntington finances.

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Boys Club letter to Henry E. Huntington

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