Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington Foundation

Description: Includes clippings and letter by Otheman Stevens, journalist with the Los Angeles Examiner.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923
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.

Foster Foundation letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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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Howard Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Enclosures: 1905 March 31 letter had letter from Antoine Borel & Co. to Howard Huntington, 1905 March 28 and letter from C.A. Henderson to Howard Huntington, 1905 March 31; 1908 November 4 letter had copy of letter from Howard Huntington to J. McMillan, 1908 September 15. Also: copies of letters from G.J. Kuhrts to Howard Huntington, 1904 August 2, 1907 January 22 and blueprint map of area showing Los Angeles River from Fremont Gate to Downey Avenue; receipt from Howard Huntington for account of Henry E. Huntington, to E.T. Cook, 1908 March 19; newspaper clippings re: Eugene E. Hewlett; copy of house repair estimate from Myron Hunt to Howard Huntington, 1918 November 23; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Howard Huntington. Subjects: Los Angeles Railway Co., Pacific Electric Co., Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Land Co., Isaias W. Hellman, , George A. Damon, end of Word War I, influenza epidemic.

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William F. Herrin letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of letter from Huntington Herrin, 1900 August 23; copy of telegram from Andrew B. Hammond to Huntington, 1902 March 10; copies of letters from Huntington to Herrin, 1904 February 2, October 19, 1905 February 8. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co., Metropolitan Railway, San Francisco Examiner attacks on Huntington, Southern Pacific Company, property in Mexico, Welles, Fargo & Co., death of Collis P. Huntington and his estate, California politics, Pacific Electric Railway, J. Kruttschnitt, Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Howard E. Huntington

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Also: newspaper clipping regarding fraudulent charity solicitors; letter from Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey to Henry E. Huntington, 1908 October 2; copy of letter from J.H. Adams & Co. to Los Angeles Railway Co., 1911 March 14. Subjects: extortion attempt on Los Angeles Railway Co., Isaias W. Hellman, real estate in California.

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Otheman Stevens letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: letter from Carl Culpepper to Stevens, 1924 August 6; copies of three letters from Huntington to Stevens, 1924 August 18, 1926 January 13, December 30.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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38 items. Enclosures: 1897 December 17 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 November 29, and copy of letter from Huntington to Mellen, December 17; 1897 December 22 letter from J.A. Muir to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 March 1, and letter from J.W. Taggart to J.A. Muir, February 27. Also: clipping from San Francisco Examiner summarizing last will of Charles Crocker, 1897 December 21 and list of securities, with copy belonging to Crocker. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., hospital in San Francisco, Occidental and Oriental Steamship Co., exports and imports at Tacoma, coal shipments, fruit shipments, real estate market, California politics, Colonel Crocker's estate, J.A. Fillmore.

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