Manuscripts

Henry Saunders Sr. letter to E. Mulford Wade

Description: Also: letter to Wade from Harriet Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1837 March 18
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

Mulford Wade letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Paul Shoup to Wade, 1924 June 13; copy of letter from Huntington to Wade, 1924 August 11. Subjects: Howard E. Huntington's death.

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Henry Saunders Sr. letters to Sally Saunders and Harriet Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Marcia Saunders Wade?

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Harriet Huntington letters to E. Mulford Wade and Sarah Saunders Wade

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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Charles R. Saunders letter to E. Darwin Saunders

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Harriet Huntington to Henry and Sally Saunders, 1841 January 29.

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Lydia S. Cooke letter to Sally E. Saunders

Manuscripts

On verso: letter from Sally E. Saunders to Sarah Saunders Wade and E.M. Wade, 1841 August 15.

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Henry Saunders Jr. letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Huntington to Saunders, 1926 February 23. Subjects: Oneonta cemetery.

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Henry Saunders Sr. letter to E. Mulford Wade

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