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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Description: 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.
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Date: 1896 August-December
Call number: mssHEH
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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71 items. Also: printed copy of Senate Bill 3064 and of Senate Calendar 924, 1896 May; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John H. Gear, 1896 August 28. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, railroad strike of 1894, Japanese steamship line, Harbor Commission, silvery parity, California politics, Willard V. Huntington, funding bill, Congressman Berry of Newport News, California Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Yosemite National Park, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., "San Pedro" shipwreck.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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46 items. Enclosures: 1896 January 6 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Grove L. Johnson, 1895 December 30; 1896 January 7 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to W & J. Sloane & Co., 1896 January 7, and list of rugs to be delivered to Sloane; 1896 January 9 letter had copy of letter from W. & J. Sloane & Co. to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 8. Also: memo from W.G. Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 7; memo regarding railroad tie consumption, 1888-1895; printed map with handwritten additions on announcement for real estate auction, 1896 January 23. Subjects: Santa Monica Outlook, Los Angeles Times, California and national politics, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Rattlesnake Island, Grove L. Johnson, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Diego Mayor Carlson, funding bill, Oakland Railway, Prentice house, Ambrose Bierce, California Pacific Railroad Co., Pacific Improvement Co. land sales, Southern Pacific Co., interviews in the Washington Post.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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37 items. Note: Overlaying the 1900 June 26 letter is the impression through "bleeding" from a press copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to R.T. Schwerin, 1900 June 22. Also: copy of a letter from Collis P. Huntington to D.A. Chambers, 1900 June 20; copy of a statement of cost of Oakland Street Railroad and reconstruction, 1900 April 24; pencil memo regarding railroad branch lines; copy of memo; copy of voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 June 30. Subjects: Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., politics, sulfur mines, Chinese quarantine, Southern Pacific Co., W.B. Harlan, Sonora Railroad, Epes Randolph, Oakland Railway, San Francisco real estate, Carson & Colorado Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Galveston, Santa Monica property.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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54 items. Also: memo regarding use of pier at Port Los Angeles and Santa Monica harbor by the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway system; copy of resolution regarding Central Pacific Railroad Co. dividends; memo in pencil; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to L.W. Kennedy, 1896 June 17 and letter from Kennedy to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 June 11; typewritten note from Henry E. Huntington to William Hood on June 18th letter; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 June 24. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Southern Pacific Railroad, Coos Bay coal mines, California politics, Pullman cars, Market Street Railway, Oregon Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Hotel, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Pacific Improvement Co., petroleum rights, gift to YMCA, warehouse, Willard V. Huntington.

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76 items. Enclosure: 1896 May 11 letter had copy of letter from W.G. Curtis to William Mahl, 1896 January 27 and Report of Taxes Paid in California by Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; copy of minutes of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Director's Meeting, 1896 April 14; copy of memo regarding right of way on Sacramento levee, copy of telephone message from Jack B. Wright, 1896 May 6; copies of letter from B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Adolph Sutro, funding bill, electricity in Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway annual report, James de Barth Shorb's and Dennis Spencer's deaths, Grove L. Johnson, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, Santa Monica, J.D. Spreckels, Hiram Johnson and California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Los Angeles Hotel, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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28 items. Also: copy of Statement of Earnings of the East Side Railway Co. (Oregon), 1893 March-August; copy of memo re: capitalization of San Francisco Consolidated street railways. Subjects: funds for Henry E. Huntington house, staff problems and reduction, Eugene Clapp, W.F. Rudolph, Oakland horse car line, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Anglo Bank, John C. McClure.

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