Manuscripts

Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Arabella Huntington's claim against Traders Insurance Co.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1909 December 15
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.

Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letters to Arabella Huntington

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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Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letters to Charles H. Tweed

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Also: memorandum for preparation of trial Huntington v. Kneeland; copies of letters from John M. Thompson Co. to Tompkins McIlvaine, 1903 January 8, 12. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letter to Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to William E. Dunn

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Also: note and draft of letter in Huntington's hand. Subjects: sale of Los Angeles Railway, Japanese relief, library endowment, Arabella Huntington's health and death, burial, and estate, Standard Felt Co.,

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Arvin H. Brown letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Subjects: Seaver & Co., property in Santa Monica, and Arabella D. Huntington's estate.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

54 items. Also: six memos related to fire insurance policies on Collis P. Huntington's house at 1020 California Street, San Francisco. Subjects: California politics, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Bernardino narrow gauge railroad, Olympic Club bonds, Southern Pacific Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco post office, Market Street Railway, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland Railway, San Pedro harbor.

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Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine letter to Henry E. Huntington

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