Manuscripts

P.W. French & Co. letters to Charles E. Graham

Description: Also: invoice, 1924, January 31.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

Charles E. Graham letter to P.W. French & Co

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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Duveen Brothers letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Also: copy of interest statement to Henry E. Huntington, 1916 May 31; memos re: status of Duveen notes, 1917 March 16, April 10. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's notes for Duveen and his account, invoice for Blue Boy.

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P.W. French & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: invoices, piece list of lengths of velvet, printed description of Lydig collection of Italian Renaissance furniture, and photocopy of letter, original in Art Gallery Archives, from Batterson & Eisele to P.W. French & Co, 1915 July 27, related to marble fountain; copies of letters from Charles E. Graham to P.W. French & Co., 1921 January 8 and December 13; copy of letter from Huntington to P.W. French & Co., 1923 March 28; 1925 June 10; 1926 April 20; statements of account. Subjects: Italian Renaissance fountain, garden statues, Roman sarcophagus, 17th century Italian temple.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Graham to Baron de Forest, 1924 January 14; small blueprints of Brooklyn lots; letter from J.V.B. Thayer to Graham, 1924 January 24; copy of 1923 New York State income tax return for Huntington; letter from Graham to Anna H. Jaeggi, 1924 January 11; copies of 4 documents related to taxes of Arabella Huntington, 1920 and 1921; copy of letter from Huntington to Graham, 1924 April 10; duplicate of 1924 September 30 letter, with variant added note; 1924 September 30 letter has copy of letter with additional note by Huntington. Subjects: Chateau Beauregard, West Virginia coal lands, Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington's finances and taxes, Pacific Electric Railway bonds and trust funds for children, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Southern California Edison, L.A. Railway bonds, Anderson Galleries and Franklin bust, closing of Huntington's New York office, Newport News Shipbuilding.

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Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters from Graham to J.E. Brown, 1923 January 31, June 19, December 10; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Graham, 1922 December 29.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Metropolitan Club

Manuscripts

Also: two letters from Metropolitan Club to Huntington, 1924 December 31, 1925 January 22.

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P.W. French & Co. letters to Charles E. Graham

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