Manuscripts

I.N. Hoag's letter book

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Description: This letter book contains correspondence regarding excursions to California and exhibitions sponsored by the California Immigration Commission of the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1883-1884.
Call number: mssHM 35294
Creator: Hoag, I.N(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, November 1971.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

I.N. Hoag letterbook

Manuscripts

This letterbook contains correspondence from the California Vine-growers' and Wine and Brandy Manufacturers' Association and an invitation to the General Convention on February 21, 1872.

mssHM 35293

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I.N. Hoag. Letter to Benjamin Davis Wilson. Sacramento, California

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

WN 443.

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I.N. Hoag. Letter to Benjamin Davis Wilson. Sacramento, California

Manuscripts

WN 442.

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Southern California Railway Co. letter book

Manuscripts

Letter book written by Chief Engineer Frederick Thomas Perris regarding extension of railroad from Colton to Waterman's Station (now Barstow, California).

mssHM 35298

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Kimball, Thomas Lord. Letter to I.N. Keller

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Thomas Lord Kimball, primarily focused on his activities with the Union Pacific Railroad. The personal correspondence includes over 330 letters sent by Kimball to his wife Mary Porter Rogers Kimball between 1859 and 1893, a letter from Kimball to his daughter Frances (1870), and a letter to Mary Kimball from her brother I.S. Hodsdon (correspondence between Hodsdon and Thomas Kimball is included in the business correspondence). The personal papers also include diaries kept by Kimball between 1860 and 1899, diaries kept by Mary Kimball between 1890 and 1898, and a biographical sketch of Kimball. The railroad papers include business correspondence from a variety of correspondents including Frederick L. Ames, Sidney Dillon, I.S. Hodsdon, W.H. Holmes, Jay Gould, and E.P. Vining, as well as a few pieces of outgoing correspondence by Kimball. The financial and operation papers include Kimball's Union Pacific pocket notebooks dated 1891-1899, a small group of Jay Gould manuscripts (1877-1880), correspondence on the W.C. Thompson scandal (1872-1873), a letter appointing Kimball as travelling agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1860), correspondence on the sale of a Unitarian Church in Omaha (1877-1880), production summaries for the Union Depot in Omaha (1879-1896), and miscellaneous railroad agreements, circulars, passes, receipts, promissory notes, financial statements, and stocks and bonds. The political papers consist of incoming correspondence, an agreement for Charles H. Brown to back the Union Pacific in pending legislation before Congress (1877), an agreement between Kimball and the National Union Publishing Co. (1877), a congressional voting record (1878), and a payroll. The mining papers include items related to the Newcastle Mining & Improvement Co. in Wyoming (1891-1894) and the Ella Mine in Idaho (1879-1880), as well as an analysis of coal on the Union Pacific Railroad line and a report on the coal business in Wyoming (1888). Also included is a box of newspaper clippings regarding Kimball's railroad activities from 1888-1889 (approx. 470 items).

mssKimball

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Report on immediate unification and more economical operation of railroads with resulting betterment of grade crossing conditions in Los Angeles and vicinity

Manuscripts

Report by Richard Sachse and the California Railroad Commission (Railroad Commission of the State of California) and related material including correspondence to F. W. Blanchard, president of the Central Development Association, and an addenda to the initial report. Includes an image of the "Proposed Temporary Union Passenger Station," for Los Angeles.

mssHM 37537

I.N. Hoag's letter book

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