Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letters to Harriet Saunders Douglas

Description: Also: memo in pencil re: interest due on investment, 1893 July 15.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1893-1895
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 letter to Harriet Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: letter from Mary Prentice Huntington to Harriet Huntington; memo regarding assets in bonds belonging to Harriet Huntington, 1890 August 15.

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Harriet Saunders Douglas letters to Henry E. 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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Henry Saunders Sr. letters to Harriet Huntington

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Also: note in pencil.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

50 items. Also: letters from J.N. Camden, 1891 February 25, and Jay H. Northrop, 1891 February 27, to Henry E. Huntington; memo (in pencil) by Henry E. Huntington; letter from Henry E. Huntington to W.T. Smith, 1891 July 13; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 June 2, 11, 14, July 6, 15, 21, 22, 27 letter from Henry E. Huntington to Charles F. Crocker, 1892 June 28; memo giving names of incorporators of the Kentucky & Ohio Bridge Co. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington debt to Collis P. Huntington and Arabella Huntington, Chesapeake & Nashville Railroad shares, steel plant in Kentucky, Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, machine shop, San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co., Collis P. Huntington's finances, Market Street Railway stock.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

28 items. Also: copy of Statement of Earnings of the East Side Railway Co. (Oregon), 1893 March-August; copy of memo re: capitalization of San Francisco Consolidated street railways. Subjects: funds for Henry E. Huntington house, staff problems and reduction, Eugene Clapp, W.F. Rudolph, Oakland horse car line, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Anglo Bank, John C. McClure.

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William E. Dunn letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: correspondence related to Arabella Huntington's car including a letter from Huntington to B.H. Hatcher, 1922 February; copies of telegrams from Huntington to Dunn, 1922 July; memo re: stock exchange with Southern California Edison; telegram from Huntington to Dunn, 1922 September 13. Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway Corp.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Harriet Saunders Douglas

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