Manuscripts

Collis P. Huntington letter to N.W. Griswold

Description: Also: note from Henry E. Huntington to W.G. Curtis, 1896 January; note from W.G. Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 23. Subjects: railroad passes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1896 January 9
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

46 items. Enclosures: 1896 January 6 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Grove L. Johnson, 1895 December 30; 1896 January 7 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to W & J. Sloane & Co., 1896 January 7, and list of rugs to be delivered to Sloane; 1896 January 9 letter had copy of letter from W. & J. Sloane & Co. to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 8. Also: memo from W.G. Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 7; memo regarding railroad tie consumption, 1888-1895; printed map with handwritten additions on announcement for real estate auction, 1896 January 23. Subjects: Santa Monica Outlook, Los Angeles Times, California and national politics, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Rattlesnake Island, Grove L. Johnson, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Diego Mayor Carlson, funding bill, Oakland Railway, Prentice house, Ambrose Bierce, California Pacific Railroad Co., Pacific Improvement Co. land sales, Southern Pacific Co., interviews in the Washington Post.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

76 items. Enclosure: 1896 May 11 letter had copy of letter from W.G. Curtis to William Mahl, 1896 January 27 and Report of Taxes Paid in California by Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; copy of minutes of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Director's Meeting, 1896 April 14; copy of memo regarding right of way on Sacramento levee, copy of telephone message from Jack B. Wright, 1896 May 6; copies of letter from B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Adolph Sutro, funding bill, electricity in Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway annual report, James de Barth Shorb's and Dennis Spencer's deaths, Grove L. Johnson, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, Santa Monica, J.D. Spreckels, Hiram Johnson and California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Los Angeles Hotel, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to W.G. Curtis

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: notes from W.G. Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 6, 17. Subjects: Southern Pacific Company.

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W.G. Curtis letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 24; Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 6; Collis P. Huntington to N.W. Griswold, 1896 January 9. Also: two reports re: car mileage on Southern Pacific systems, 1894-1895.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

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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T.B. Shannon letter to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1896 January 2.

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Collis P. Huntington letter to N.W. Griswold

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