A Guide to the Randolph Huntington Correspondence and Ephemera, 1833; 1876-1908
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The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 11844
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Preferred Citation
Randolph Huntington Correspondence and Ephemera, Accession 11844 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library from L & T. Respess, Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 9, 2001.
Biographical/Historical Information
Randolph Huntington was a New York City pharmaceutical manufacturer who moved to central New York state after the Civil War to breed and sell fine saddle and coach horses and who became a leading American authority on the Arabian horse.
Scope and Content Information
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera, ca. 2,600 items (13 Hollinger boxes, ca. 5 linear feet), 1833; 1876-1908, from the estate of Randolph Huntington. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arab horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera (transferred to the Rare Books Division); and material documenting the publication of Huntington's book, History of Leopard & Linden, General Grant's Arabian Stallions .
Huntington became interested in using the two stallions given to former President U.S. Grant in 1877 by the Sultan of Turkey to breed a national horse for the United States. His breeding project, based on the Grant stallions and mares out of the trotting horse Henry Clay, was not successful but it did bring the value of Arabian blood to the attention of other American horsemen, most notably Homer Davenport. There are three letters from Daisy Davenport, Homer Davenport's wife, to Huntington in the correspondence.
Highlights of the collection include Huntington's Library of Congress copyright form for his book, signed by A.R. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress; a small group of correspondence from the book's publisher, Lippincott, 1885; and a group of approximately fifty letters from Spencer Borden, author of The Arab Horse (New York, 1906). Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States.
Arrangement
These letters are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the correspondent, with more frequent correspondents placed in their own folders. The financial papers, news clippings, pedigrees, reviews, and other miscellaneous material has been placed after the correspondence in the last box.
Contents List
Correspondents include: Edward L. Adams, E. Agnew, Frederick Akers, Charles N. Almy, M.B. Anderson, E.P. Andrews, William L. Annis, George W. Archer, Argus Press clipping Bureau, A.R. Ashley, Austin & Kohl, A.C. Austin
alphabetical
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Correspondents include: Charles Babbidge, Charles Backman, John M. Bailey, David Baird, George B. Baker, Ira C. Baker, W.J. Baker, C.H. Barbour, Dell Barker, M.I. Barker, L.B. Bartholomew, J. Battele, G.S. Battey, Isaac A. Baxter
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Correspondents include: E.F. Beale, O.D. Beebe, H.V. Bemis of The Chicago Horseman, Mr. and Mrs. Bend, Peter Benedict, J.D. Benham, C.D. Bennett, H. Bennett, L.S. Birdlong, H.R. Bishop, S. L. Boardman, Robert Bonner, A. Bordwell, Fred H. Bowker, E.R. Bowne, C. [Waude?] Bozart, A.S. Braman, C.D. Bray, George Bristane, F.H. Britt, Lou H. Brown, L.W. Bruce, Sanders D. Bruce, E.R. Budd, C.C. Buel, Frank W. Burns, Emory Busby, A.L. Bush, C.A. Bush
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Borden is author of The Arab Horse (New York, 1906)
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Brawhall is on the staff of the Albany Evening Journal
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Brown was the proprietor of Gorham House, includes Huntington's note: This is the man who raised Captain Lewis (1882 Oct 3)
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Bryant was the U.S. Postmaster, Madison, Wisconsin and secretary of Dane County Agricultural Society in Wisconsin
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Correspondents include: Henry T. Carr, Peter D. Carroll, D.D. Carter, The Century Company and Magazine, James Chambers, C.A. Chapman, R.B. Chouler of Turf, Field and Farm and American Turf Register, W.H. Cisco, Pickering H. Clark, Henry Clews, Henry M. Codding, Amos D. Coe
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Correspondents include: George H. Cole, James W. Colt, Henry W. Conklin, W.H. Cook, W.A. Cooper, A.Corbin, Jr., F.C. Cornell, Bruce Cornwall, William Cox, C.O.H. Craigie, Gilbert T. Crisfield, Frank Crocker, T.A. Crooks, J. Crouch, Edward Crundall, W.C. Cruser, publisher of The Democrat, X.W. Culbertson, Brook Curry, Charles G. Cushing
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Correspondents include: C. H. David, William G. David, Mrs. Homer C. (Daisy B.) Davenport, Homer Davenport, Julius G. Day, Richard DeLong, William H. Dempsey, T. Henry Dewey, Charles W. Dickel, Francis Dilleichux, J.S. Dixon
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Correspondents include: Chales S. Dole, Charles B. Doll, A. B. Donelson, Webb Donnell, D. B. Doughty, Aug[ustus] C. Downing, C. W. Downing, Richard F. Downing, Sara W. Drake, Jont[.] Dresback, Will C. Dunn, Samuel B. Duryea.
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Correspondents include: Annie H. Eastburn, William Easton, Marion J.B. Eddy, William Edwards, The Epoch , Drs. C. or H. Finn E[rmany], S.G. Evans, Maxwell Evarts, The Evening Telegraph
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Correspondents include: William D. Fitzhugh, Edward D. Foote, Foote Brothers (includes pedigrees of "Badger Clay" and "Dr. Strong"), Charles E. Ford, O.R. Ford, W.C. France
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Correspondents include: L.D. Gage, W.F. Gale, John Garnish, J.W. Garrett (per his secretary A.B. Crane), J.E. Gates, J.B. Gattshall, A.B. Gauss, Samuel Gibson, J.D. Giddings, C.M. Gilman, Miss E.B. Gilman, G. Gi[rsnobs], William M. Glaves, F.T. Glisan, S.H. Godfrey, G.H. Goodrich, J.M. Goodwin, M.J. Gordon, H.B. Gorham, Thomas H. Gorman, O.B. Gould, John M. Gray, J.W. Gray, D.W. Greene, Pliny Grover, D.S. Gurnsey
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Correspondents include: Charles H. Hall, John B. Hall, W.W. Hamilton, C.J. Hamlin, H.P. Hancock, John J. Hanley, George Harding, Harper Brothers, Harper & Martin, J.Low Harriman, George W. Harris, J.W. Hartzell, J.R. Havens, [] Hawley, Walter I. Hayes, Henry Haynes, Charles du Hays, C.D. Hayt, H. Hayward, J.H. Hazard
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Correspondents include: T.S. Hegeman, Winthrop Hegeman, H.B. Henderson, William H. Henry of The Rider and Driver , Charles H. Hepburn, Charles Griffin Herring, Ulysses Hertig, Hess, Townsend, and McClelland, Counsellors at Law, Samuel H. Hicks, Homer J. Hill, L.J. Hilton, H.L. Hodge, E.G. Holden, Mrs. George W. (E.A.) Holdridge, J.C. Holmes, William Holworthy, A.O. Hooker, B.C. Hopkins, David Hopkins, J.R. Hopkins
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Correspondents include: Horace L. Hotchkiss, L.T. Houghton, W.A. Houghton, D. Houston, L.H. Howes, S.S. Howland, Amelia Dunbar Hunt, H.J. Drum Hunt, Herbert Huntington, J.B. Huntington, S.S. Huntley, O.P. Hurd, James T. Hyde
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These eight letters are all the same text, pertaining to a monthly check for $100 to the account of Mrs. C.P. Huntington
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She moves to Quincy, Illinois, and folder includes one letter from Randolph to her, 1887 Jul 24.
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Correspondents include: E.J. Ingalsbe, E.[N.] Jackson, R.H. Jackson, George B. James of The American Cultivator and American Horse Breeder , Samuel M. Jarvis, William C. Jeffries, Alexander Jones, Charles H. Jones, O. Judd Company, publisher of American Agriculturalist
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Correspondents include: M.C. Keith, E.F. Kelley, Law Office of Kelly & MacRae, N.M. Kennedy, Mrs. John (Celestian M.) Kent, Charles H. Kerner, Madison Kimball, W.R. Kimball, Donald B. Kingshery, B.F. Kingsley, Edmund Kirby, Clifford Kirkpatrick, D. Knapp, V.J. Knapp, Alex C. Knealy of the New York Herald , A.D. Kniffin, J.A. Knowlton, Edward C. Kohn
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Correspondents include: George Lambert, John Landers, J.N. Lasher, Ariel Lathrop, Daniel S. Lathrop, Launder & Harter Livery, James A. Lawrence, Frank Learned, D. Carlos Leavens, Mortimer Levering, secretary of the American Shetland Pony Club, Stephen H. Little, William A. Little, Francis G. Lloyd, George G. Lobdell, Joseph Logle, John Samuel Long, W.D. Loomis, Atherton Loring, Vice President of the Library Bureau of Boston, James W. Love[hirer], Robert Luce, president of Horse and Stable , Cyrus Lukens, Persis R.R. Luk[is], A.G. Lyon
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Correspondents include: J. H. MacCormac, John Mack, P.C. Mackubin, Leslie E. Macleod, editor of The Horseman , M.J. MacMahon, Fred H. Mann, Stuart R. Mann, W.G. Markham, Mrs. F.W. Marshall, secretary for A.W. Drake, director of The Century Art Department, Robert H. Martin, W.R. H. Martin, John D. Masengil, Perry Mason & Company of The Youth's Companion , M.N. Matteson, re: his father, O.C. Matteson, William A. Matteson, James McAllister, B.R. McAlpine, R.M. McBride of Livestock Department, Country Life in America , Joseph W. McCall, G. McCleary, W.P. McCleery, McDonald, H.M. McDonald, H.C. McDowell, Henry McHugh, H.S. McKennan, S.W. McKibben, Henry McMillan, P. McMillan
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Correspondents include: Jacob Meeker, Mrs. George A. (Laurie G.) Meyer, C.W. Mihills, Manly Miles, W.M. Millen, Charles Miller & Jospeh C. Sibley, Charles F. Mills, secretary of the American Association Live Stock Herd Book Secretaries in a letter to the American Arabian Horse Breeders' Association, Mrs. Anne C. Miner, W.H. Mink, Charles W. Mitchell, Francis B. Mitchell, J.W. Mitchell, George E. Molleson, John L. Moody, Moore & Company, Moore
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Correspondents include: George O. Morgan, Miss Midy Morgan, reporter for The New York Times , W.P. Morgan, C.E. Morrison, William J. Morrison, William H. Morrow, Philip S. Moxom, Moyses Brothers, L.S. Mulford, Milton Mundy, Munn & Company, T.H. Munson, Mrs. Louise A.B. Murray
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Correspondents include: Alexander Neave, G.W. Nelson, Peter Nelson, A.S. Newman, Rob D. North, F. O'Rourke, Joseph R. Oakden, Ira L. Otis
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Correspondents include: L.D. Packer, secretary of the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, Allen B. Palmer, C.G. Palmer, L.W. Parker, E.B. Parsons, R.W. Pearce, James H. Pennell, T.A. Perrin, John G. Perry, William H. Peters, John H. Phillips, N.H. Piffard, J.S. Pierson, A.H. Plato, T.D. Plumb, Charles H. Plummers, John T. Prentiss, J.R. Prescott, M.L. Prescott, D.W. Prime
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Correspondents include: Miners Raplee, John T. Rapple, J.J. Redman, G.G. Reed, R. Richardson, D.C. Robbins, C.F. Roberts, W.A. Roberts, J.R. Robinson, George A. Roedes, L.J. Rose, J.J. Row, B.S. Runyan, H.P. Ruppell, William Rushmore, C.S. Russell, J.B. Russell, S. Russell
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Correspondents include: J.H. Sanders Publishing Company re: The Breeder's Gazette , William H. Sargent, Samuel B. Schieffelin, E.H. Schley, A.R. Scott & Company of The Livingston Republican , Charles Scribner's Sons, J.W. Seabrook, S.H. Seamans, B.F. Sells, M.E. Servis, secretary and treasurer of The New York State Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, William H. Seward, George A. Shaw, E. Newlon Shepard, E.T. Sherman, R.R. Sinclair of Harper & Brothers' Editorial Rooms, William Sinnock, Jones Smedley
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Correspondents include: Smith & Hulett, A.V. Smith, Asa Smith, C[...] B. Smith, C.W. Smith, Charles H. Smith, D.B. Smith, Elizur Smith, George E. Smith, Jacob M. Smith, Stephen W. Smith, William H. Smith, Will L. Smith, John Splan, H.S. Stafford, Senator Stanford, C.B. Stanley, J.B. Starmard(?), W.H. Stith, Wallace G. Stiles, William O. Stillman, Carl Stoeckel, R.J. Stukey of The Western Horseman , John R. Stuyvesant
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Correspondents include: S.J. Tallmadge, Emma Taylor, John G. Taylor, Samuel W. Taylor, Jr., editor and publisher of The Rider and Driver , Thomas Taylor, N.M. Terry, Edward M. Tesson, John Boyd Thacker, J. Gaillard Thomas, Allen W. Thomson, E.H. Thorp of The Middlebury Register , F.J. Thorpe, Louis Comfort Tiffany, E.M. Townsend, W.W. Tucker, Edward Tyler, William R. Tyler
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Correspondents include: L.C. Underhill of Sportsman , W.J. Underwood, Union Publishing Company, L.S. Van Vliet, Frank Vanderbilt, John Vanderbilt, R. Vandeventer
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This Albany correspondent discusses the pedigrees of "Harry Clay" and "Clay Pilot."
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Correspondents include: B.C. Wakely, W.D. Walcott, S.P. Waldo, Charles C. Walker, W.A. Walker, George K. Ward, Riley Ward, J. Kearney Warren, Jr., R.W.G. Welling, Isaac S. Wells, L.A. Wendell, N. Wheeler, S.H. Wheeler, Thomas J. Wheeler, R.E. White, Willard White, John L. Whiton, A.E. Whyland
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Correspondents include: F.A. Wier, A.H. Willard, E.L. Williams, E.P. Williams, Henry Williams, Jr., I. Williams, J.D. Willis, D.G. Wilmarth, Charles Wilson, William H. Wilson, Joseph W. Wilstach, John E. Winans, William T. Withers, Jr., Lester Witherspoon, John J. Wise, C.W. Witters, B.B. Wood, Franc Ogilvy Wood, W.T. Wood, Woodard & Harbison, Miss L.E. Wooden, J.S. Woodhouse, E.L. Woodside, C.A. Woodward, D.M. Worley, T.S. Wynkorp
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Includes pedigree and terms of service of "Black Henry," "King Morgan," "Artillery," and information on the trotting stallion "Billy Patterson" and "Fallis 4781".
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Includes information on his entertainer son, Marshall P. Wilder
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Includes: Q.M. Young, with information on "Clay Pilot" and "Captain Lewis"
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