Mary Huntington Foster letters to Henry E. Huntington
Description
Also: Power of Attorney of estate of Solon Huntington, 1890 August 16, signed by Charles Willard Vincent Huntington, Caroline Huntington Holladay, Harriet Huntington, and Henry E. Huntington (in his handwriting), and assignment of interest by Henry E. Huntington to Harriet Huntington.
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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57 items. Enclosure: 1896 August 20 letter had letter from W.G. Clark & Co. to John D. Isaacs, 1896 August 20. Also: telegram from Henry E. Huntington to J.A. Muir, 1896 August 1; two copies of memo "Political Aspect from Present Conditions," 1896 August 13; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to A.E. Bradbury, 1896 September 3; memo by John D. Isaacs, giving dimensions of furnace room in house at 1020 California Street, San Francisco, home of Collis P. Huntington. Subjects: "Sound Money" buttons, Japanese steamship line, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Edwin Hawley, Grove L. Johnson and California politics, Harriet Saunders Huntington, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Pacific Improvement Co., Republican party, death of A.L. Tubbs.
50 items. Also: letter and telegram from Jay H. Northrop to Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 11, 12; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1891 October 26; copies of letters to C.L. Brown, Northrup, and Joseph S. Woolfolk from Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 27; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, and copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1892 February 29; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 July 21; excerpts from letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15; letter from W.D. Gilette to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 8; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15. Subjects: Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, Ashland Improvement Co. stock, Southern California Co., Southern California fruit production, Santa Monica breakwater, San Francisco street railways.
43 items. Also: copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1892 June-August, December 6, 26, 28; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Frank M. Stone, 1892 August 19, and letter from Stone to Huntington, August 19. Subjects: Santa Monica wharf, British Columbia mining property, politics and railroads, Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Co., Oakland Waterfront case, Chicago lakefront, Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio railway, Main & Winchester vs. California Pacific Railroad, Oregon Pacific Railroad.
