Manuscripts
Lothrop Withington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Huntington genealogy: Lothrop Withington and Henry E. Huntington correspondence
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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. 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
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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.
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B.A. Worthington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Enclosures: 1895 September 24 letter had letter from W.G. Curtis to Collis P. Huntington, 1895 September 6 and two reports regarding car mileagle on Southern Pacific System, 1894-1895; 1898 February 9 letter had letter from Worthington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 February 9 and report by William Hood. Also: two bills from E.J. Duffy Gas Fixtures to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 October 6 and November 24; drawing of suggested rack in toilet under main stairs, Collis P. Huntington's San Francisco house; copies of four letters related to alleged maligning of Henry E. Huntington in Southern Pacific Co., 1895 April-May; copy of letter from Worthington to Frank S. Douty, 1898 February 9; telegram from G.F.R. to Henry E. Huntington, 1898 February 20; printed memo by Worthington. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., California politcs, Huntington Hopins Co., Grove Johnson, George Crocker, Leland Stanford.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Charles Babbidge
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Also: account of Collis Potter Huntington with Huntington-Hopkins Co., 1895-1898, three copies; memo regarding income and expenses, Lexington, Kentucky, in estate of Collis P. Huntington, 1902 March 19. Subjects: Huntington's accounts, Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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William E. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: correspondence related to Arabella Huntington's car including a letter from Huntington to B.H. Hatcher, 1922 February; copies of telegrams from Huntington to Dunn, 1922 July; memo re: stock exchange with Southern California Edison; telegram from Huntington to Dunn, 1922 September 13. Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway Corp.
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George E. Miles letters to Henry E. Huntington
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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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