Manuscripts

Hawley & Davis documents for Arabella Huntington

Description: Subjects: Arabella Huntington's finances.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1910
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.

Hawley & Davis letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Arabella Huntington's finances, Pennsylvania Company stock.

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Edwin Hawley letters to Arabella Huntington

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Also: receipt for 2000 shares of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. stock; four memos of stock sales and receipt from Union Trust Co. for deposit of $72,080 to credit, 1912 January 23; receipt from Hawley & Davis for 400 shares of Chesapeake & Ohio stock, 1912 January 25-29. Subjects: Arabella Huntington's finances.

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Laurabelle A. Robinson letter to Arabella Huntington

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Subjects: Arabella Huntington's illness.

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Henry E. Huntington documents to Archer Huntington and Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery: indenture establishing Arabella Huntington Memorial Trust

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Note: three copies. Subjects: Arabella Huntington's estate.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Arabella Huntington

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Also: letter from Union Trust Co. of New York to Huntington, 1915 October 18; statement showing status of Richmond Dist. (San Francisco) lot sales, 1917 May 21; printed copy of Dept. of State Passport regulations; copy of letter from Graham to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1922 August 30; "Statement of Receipts & Disbursements by Henry E. Huntington for A.D. Huntington, 1923 October 31. Subjects: Arabella Huntington's finances and taxes.

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Arabella Huntington financial documents

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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 (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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Hawley & Davis documents for Arabella Huntington

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