Manuscripts

Walter L. Ehrich letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: Richard Sidenberg letter to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 March 3.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1925 February 24
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Walter L. Ehrich

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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Edward A. Adams letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 February 9, statement and reimbursements on Brooklyn properties, copies of Huntington letters to Adams, 1925 February 19 and April 1, copy of Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. to stockholders, 1925 March 25, copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 April 1, also unsigned proxies, blank affidavit and bond indemnity forms, copy of Adams letter for Huntington to Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1925 March 30, copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 April 8, and receipt from Huntington to Charles E. Graham for books and records, 1924 October 15. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's income tax, Brooklyn properties, Old Dominion Land Co., Newport News companies, the Stock Exchange, National Telautograph stock, Some on Henry E. Huntington letterhead. 62 pieces.

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Ehrich Galleries letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: invoice for six photographs of the "Duke of Wellington" portrait, 1911 February 18; copies of two letters from Charles E. Graham to Ehrich Galleries, 1911 April-May; photograph of James Earl portrait of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, copy of letter from Huntington to Walter L. Ehrich, 1922 March 14; 1924 April 30, May 5; photograph of Gilbert Stuart portrait of Thomas Jefferson, and copy of letter from Huntington to Ehrich Galleries, 1926 February 9. Subjects: Lawrence portrait of Duke of Wellington, Velasquez picture, Reynolds' "Holy Family," and Cruikshank's "Birth of Shakespeare."

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Constant Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Constant Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 December 29.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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.

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Charles E. Culver letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: telegram from Culver to Huntington, 1925 November 4; letter from Walter B. Livezey to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 October 22. Subjects: Duveen, Naples Co.

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Walter L. Ehrich letter to Henry E. Huntington

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