Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letter to Kate W. Berton

Description: Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Barton. Subjects: Archer Huntington, Arabella Huntington, the Mausoleum.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 December 6
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Archer Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Archer Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 October 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Chesapeake & Ohio stock purchase, Old Mill property, Mausoleum, Arabella Huntington memorial rooms and collection at the Library, Duveen, Henry E. Huntington's health.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Graham, 1921 June 1, 1922 February 13; copy of receipt signed by Arabella Huntington and Henry E. Huntington, 1915 February 5; copy of letter from Graham to C. Weidenfeld, 1922 August 16; copy of letter from Graham to Archer Huntington, 1922 August 22. Subjects: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Southern California Edison, Newport News Shipbuilding, Chateau Beauregard, Foster Estate, West Virginia, Collis P. Huntington mausoleum, property in New York.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Kate W. Berton : photocopy

Manuscripts

A photocopy of a typewritten letter sent by Henry E. Huntington to Kate Berton from his San Marino Ranch. In the letter Huntington discusses the state of his health, which is getting better after his 1925 operation, and extolls the Ranch and the state of California as wonderful places for recuperation. He also speaks of Kate's "Aunt Belle" and how much she is missed after her death in 1924. Huntington describes the marble mausoleum he is designing and having built on the grounds of the Ranch which will be his final resting place beside Arabella; Henry E. Huntington died during an operation three months after this letter was written.

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George E. Miles letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: newspaper clipping about Steel trust, 1901 November 12; copy of telegram from Huntington to Miles, 1903 January 17; deposit slip of Union Trust Co. for deposit to account of Arabella Huntington, 1913 April 3; newspaper clipping about death of Baron Natal, 1915 May 11; copy of letter from Miles to National Historical Society, and printed item. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: London Times article "The Taste for Dirt;" copy of announcement of exhibition of painting of Emma, Lady Hamilton, by Romney, Spring 1900; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen, 1924 November 10; copy of telegram from Duveen to Huntington, 1911. Subjects: Brockwell, Library walls, Birley's portraits of Henry E. Huntington and Arabella D. Huntington, Huntington's health, Mrs. Charles A. Painter, Ralph W. Booth, Detroit Institute of Arts, Blue Boy, Loudoun collection, Louis XVI temple, Perseus statue by Antonio Canova, and Duveen exhibition.

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William E. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Dunn, 1919 February 13; copy of telegram from Dunn to Huntington, 1919 February 19; copies of 5 vouchers issued by Los Angeles Railway Corp. for payments endorsed by Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1819, 1919; letters from Huntington to Dunn, 1919 November 12, 19; copy of telegram from Huntington to Dunn; copy of letter by Dunn to Charles E. Graham, 1919 December 31; copy of telegram from Huntington to Dunn, 1920 July 28. Subjects: Metcalf affair, War Labor Board, Zimmerman property, bids library work, labor problems, Los Angeles Railway Corp., Southern California Edison.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Kate W. Berton

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