Manuscripts

Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco letter to A.W. Wilson

Description: Also: note in handwriting of Edmund B. Holladay; memo by Edmund B. Holladay. Subjects: San Francisco property at Lafayette Park.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1918 December 5
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.

Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco letter to Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: copy of letter from R.A. Crothers to Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco, 1918 December 23. Subjects: San Francisco property at Lafayette Park.

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Benjamin D. Wilson autobiography

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Note: dictated by request of Hubert Howe Bancroft; this copy typed by Annie Wilson from copy retained by her father, Benjamin D. Wilson. Also: memo written and signed by Edmund B. Holladay, after 1931; newspaper clippings about Wilson family.

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Robert C. Slaughter letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: memo by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921 July 5. Subjects: Foster Estate, West Virignia.

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E.F. Leonard letters to Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: letter from Holladay to Leonard, 1924 November 18; memo in handwriting of Holladay. Subjects: S.W. Holladay estate.

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Bank books: Nevada National Bank of San Francisco

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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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San Francisco National Bank letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco letter to A.W. Wilson

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