Manuscripts

Collis Potter Huntington telegram to Leland Stanford

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Description: Collis Huntington reports that he will not issue a new bill until new construction equipment has been supplied. Printed form, filled in. Also included is a photocopy of the original.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1869, March 18.
Call number: mssHM 47839
Creator: Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Neil K. Dietrich, 1981, February 2.
Dimensions: 14 cm :
Associated people: Stanford, Leland, (1824-1893,)
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Collis Huntington letter to Richard B. Carpenter

Manuscripts

Huntington writes of his involvement with California politics, claiming local politicians targeted him and his Southern Pacific Company with "unparalleled vigilance." He plans to stay out of further affairs until local nominations have been made, and remarks "no one will put himself out more personally or pay more money, to advance the best interest of California, than I will myself." Signed "C. P. Huntington." Includes typed card with provenance information.

mssHM 29095

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Jacob Deeth telegram to Leland Stanford

Manuscripts

Deeth reports of the election of the Grand Marshall of the Pacific Railroad, and the impending celebration "when the last rail is laid." Printed form, filled in.

mssHM 47836

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Charles Crocker telegram to Leland Stanford

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Crocker reports that the telegram he sent to Stanford previously can now be dismissed as "wholly false," and the Union Pacific is "driving the work as hard as ever." Printed form, filled in.

mssHM 47835

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Description of pictures belonging to Collis Potter Huntington [photographs]

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633398

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Letters from Collis P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, E.B. Crocker, Charles F. Crocker, and D.D. Cotton [sic], from August 20, 1867, to [March 31, 1876]

Rare Books

192908

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

56 items. Also: 1897 January 6 letter has autograph note by Henry E. Huntington; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Julius Kruttschitt; notice of arrival and Bill of Lading for chest of tools; prospectus for bond issue by Metropolitan Gas Co. of Los Angeles. Subjects: Anti-funding resolution, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Colonel Crocker, Oakland Street railways, Arizona politics, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Hotel del Monte, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, cipher books.

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Collis Potter Huntington telegram to Leland Stanford

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