Manuscripts

Collis P. Huntington letters to William F. Herrin

Description: Also: note and memo of expenditures by Wallace, from Herrin, to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Grove Johnson, Yuba River Dam, Nevada elections.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895-1897
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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William F. Herrin letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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 Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

39 items. Enclosures: 1895 December 19 letter had letter from F.S. Douty to Southern Pacific, 1895 December 6 and letter from E.C. Wright to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 December 16; 1895 December 20 letter had copy of letter from Grove L. Johnson to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 December 9; 1895 December 23 letter had letter from Grove L. Johnson to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 December 17; 1895 December 30 letter had copy of letter from Charles F. Crocker to Collis P. Huntington, 1895 December 30. Also: note, in pencil, regarding amount due to Howard E. Huntington, 1895 December 23; list of Utah legislators and copy of assets of each as assessed. Subjects: Colton house purchase, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Collis P. Huntington's Nevada bank account, funding bill, insurance for Murillo paintings, Southern Pacific Co., Adolph Sutro, Market Street Railway stock, Republican National Convention and Grove L. Johnson, Utah politics and Isaac Trumbo, Santa Monica harbor, Los Angeles Terminal Railway.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Charles F. Crocker

Manuscripts

Also: memorandum of general expenses of Union Colliery Co., 1892-1896, and memorandum of general expenses of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., 1892-1896. Subjects: San Francisco Street Railway, Market Street Railway, Grove Johnson campaign in California, Pacific Improvement Co.

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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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Collis P. Huntington telegram to Charles F. Crocker or Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Subjects: Grove Johnson in California.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to William F. Herrin

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