Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
Description
41 items. Also: memorandum of Special Tickets issued and note, 1892-1893; mem re: cost of Telegraph Avenue electric line, 1893 June 1; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 June 28. Subjects: Olympic Club bonds, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad labor problems, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California Gold Book (call number: 1466), Oakland Railway, Epes Randolph, Pacific Improvement Co., Union Pacific coal rates, Market Street Railway Co., North America Navigation Co., Panama Railroad.
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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81 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to W.H. Mills, 1893 July 11. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad strike, Southern Pacific Railroad Co., Oakland Railway, Union Pacific coal rates, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California politics, Market Street Railway, Oregon and California Railroad, railroad labor problems, Oakland Waterfront case, John P. Raymond, Oakland-San Francisco ferry.
46 items. Also: letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 30, April 7, March 15, 21, April 5, 21, 24; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Henry Gibbons, 1893 April 5; copies of telegrams and letter from Charles H. Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 January 27, April 10, 25. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co. bonds, Santa Monica Wharf, Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co., North America Steam Navigation Co., Market Street Railway and Geary Street Railway earnings, Oakland Railroad.
48 items. Note: receipt dated 1893 March is in the handwriting of Henry E. Huntington. Also: draft of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copy of telegram from G.L. King to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 February 15, March 6, April 18; copy of Report of Earnings of the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, 1892; copy of letter from J. Kennedy Tod to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 29, and Huntington's reply, April 7; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.C. Stubbs, 1893 April 24. Subjects: Oregon Pacific Railroad, Oakland Railway, San Francisco Street railways, John P. Raymond, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, San Pedro, Market Street Railway, Lewis Tasheira.
31 items. Also: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 July 24; two memos (in pencil); copy of Cost of Tavern at Castle Crag, 1893 June 1. Subjects: politics, Chesapeake & Ohio bonds, Oregon & California Railroad, labor problems, Oakland waterfront case, Southern Pacific Co. bonds, Pacific Improvement Co. bonds, Market Street Railway Co., Capital Gas Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., staff reduction, fruit shipments.
34 items. Also: copies of telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 January 31; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.L. Willcott, 1893 February. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, California Pacific Railroad Co., Oregon Pacific Railroad, California politics, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland Waterfront case, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., J.P. Jones property.
46 items. Also: copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to G.L. King, 1893 November 29; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John E. Sexton, 1893 December 6 and Sexton's reply, November 30. Subjects: Edward N. Grant, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco street railway, San Francisco Oakland ferry, Pacific Improvement Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco electric poles, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News & Shipbuilding, Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
