Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letter to Nora H. Larsen

Description: Subjects: getting Huntington ranch house ready for return; Arabella Huntington's death.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921-1923
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.

Nora Larsen telegrams 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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Henry A. Siebrecht letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: invoice for floral pall for funeral of Arabella Huntington, from Siebrecht's House of Flowers, 1924 December 19. Subjects: Arabella Huntington's death.

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Clara Huntington Hatzfeldt letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Huntington family, Collis P. Huntington's death, Arabella Huntington's illness and death.

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William Randolph Hearst letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Arabella Huntington's death, Hearst visit to the San Marino Ranch.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Rounsevelle Wildman

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Also: letter from Wildman to Huntington, 1900 August 20. Subjects: Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's death and estate, Arabella Huntington.

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Nora Larsen letter to Charles E. Graham

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Nora H. Larsen

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