Manuscripts

Nellie Huntington Gere letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Arthur Wesley Dow collection.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923 February 14
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.

Nellie C. Terry letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of Huntington's reply, 1926 April 20. Subjects: Mark Hopkins.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Clark & Bryan

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Also: letter from Wesley Clark to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 July 31; letters from Clark & Bryan to Henry E. Huntington, 1904 May 31, June 20, June 23, 1905 January 7, 27, February 10, March 20; Description of lease on 188 acres on Santa Fe and Slauson Avenues, Los Angeles. Subjects: Real estate in California.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to James Agler

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Subjects: Senator Arthur Brown, B.F. Thomas, Ogden Evening Press.

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George Ellery Hale letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of letter from Subjects: Huntington Library, Frederick Jackson Turner, Arthur Noyes, and Robert A. Millikan.

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Seligmann & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Some items are photocopies; originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: invoices for items purchased by Huntington, 1911-1920; letter from Arthur Bloche to Seligmann & Co., in French, with English translation, describing and authenticating Boucher tapestries. Subjects: Francois Boucher tapestries, Savonnerie screens, bronze statues, Chinese porcelain, marble vases, Clodion firedogs.

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Nellie M. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington

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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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Nellie Huntington Gere letter to Henry E. Huntington

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