Jacob Primer Leese letters | Collections | The Huntington

Jacob Primer Leese letters | Collections | The Huntington

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Jacob Primer Leese letter to David Waldo
Manuscripts
In this letter, Leese tells Waldo that he has heard of Waldo's intent to visit California, and if he does, he should visit Leese at "San Francisco, Sonoma Town."
mssHM 16379
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Jacob P. Leese letter to Charles Debrille Poston
Manuscripts
Leese writes concerning details of the legal matter "laid before the Mexican Minister" and of his involvement. Leese appears to be forming a company, and decides to grant Poston power of attorney. Typescript of original. Also included are photocopied pages from a pamphlet with a brief biography of Leese.
mssHM 46542
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Jacob Whitman Bailey botanical drawings and letters
Manuscripts
This material includes a series of botanical drawings by Jacob Whitman Bailey (HM 83530-83533); some of the drawings are dated 1832 and include carefully labeled, detailed drawings of cryptogamia and phenogamia, some with extended descriptions. The autograph letters by Bailey (HM 83534-83537) are dated 1833, January-July, and are written to his step-father, Professor George Washington Keely in Waterville, Maine. The letters are written when he was stationed at Moultrie, South Carolina and Bellona Arsenal, Virginia as an Army lieutenant; the letters are written at the time of the Nullification Crisis and discuss the crisis as well as slavery in South Carolina and Virginia. Also included is the original cover (HM 83538) of the volume which contained the Bailey material; the cover has the original pasted down paper label with an autograph list of contents, written in an unknown hand.
mssHM 83530-83538
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Society of California Pioneers letter to Jacob P. Leese
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.
mssHEH
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"Jacob Blukunduper" letter to Lewis Vail, New Dover, Ohio
Manuscripts
A letter addressed to Lewis Vail and signed "Jacob Blukunduper (?)" discusses the early history of Moravian missions in Ohio
mssHM 59433
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Edgar Jacob letters to family
Manuscripts
Four of these letters are written by Edgar Jacob (1883) to his family back in England. His letters were written from Rimouski, Québec, Iowa, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Tejon Ranch and Bakersfield, California. In his letters from Salt Lake City Edgar describes the city, talks about the Mormons and the building of their Tabernacle. Edgar also discusses Americans, their customs and religion. His last letter was written while visiting his brother Augustus at Bakersfield and the Tejon Ranch region (after he had taken up ranching). Edgar talks about ranch life, the sheep, the Indians living near the ranch and General Edward Beale. The three letters by Augustus Jacob (1873-1874) were written to his father and sister Edith from San Francisco and Laguna Ranch, California. He talks about the people he meets, life in California and the sights he sees. He also writes in great detail about ranch life and sheep raising in California and his trip from Jamaica to San Francisco.
mssHM 70984-70990