Guide to the Timothy Hopkins Transportation Collection, 1816-1942 M0097
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1999 ; revised 2018-2023
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Timothy Hopkins Transportation Collection (M0097)
source:
Miller, E. H. , Jr. (Edward Hunting), 1824 or 1825-1892
Identifier/Call Number: M0097
Physical Description:
18 Linear Feet
(40 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1816-1942
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Timothy Hopkins, M. A. Ives, Hazel Elizabeth Sullivan, Mrs. Carleton E. Miller, and others.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Timothy Hopkins transportation collection, M0097, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Related Materials
The former Hopkins Transportation Library has been subdivided into several smaller collections and cataloged items.
One may browse a list of various Hopkins-originated material here: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?q=%22Hopkins+Transportation+Library.%22&search_field=subject_terms
Guides to the main Hopkins Transportation collections:
Transferred Materials
Leland Stanford correspondence has been transferred to Stanford University Archives, SC0033 Leland Stanford papers, 1840-1896:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4085326
Jan. 5, 1850 - June 19, 1893 "R. L. Wilbur to G. T. Clark, letter of transmittal. Letters to Mark Hopkins and various correspondents,
business and personal. Letters of George E. Gray to Stanford. The Stanford, Stillman, Osgood letters."
Scope and Contents
When the Hopkins Transportation Library was dispersed, most of the manuscript material was consolidated in this collection
(M0097).The most significant collection of letters extant on the subject of the Central Pacific is contained in the Hopkins-Huntington
correspondence. Some 2,500 letters and documents in 14 volumes cover the years 1860-1885 and are concentrated on the years
1872-1876. The letters are from Collis P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Alfred A. Cohen, and others. Several
volumes contain correspondence between E. B. Crocker, Alfred A. Cohen, W. C. Ralston, E. E. Hewitt and Mark Hopkins.
In addition there is a volume of letters by Leland Stanford to a variety of correspondents, 1850-1893. (Transferred to University
Archives).
Also in the collection are papers of Butler Ives, 1862-70, Central Pacific clipping books, 1872-92, and the papers of E. H.
Miller, Jr., 1859-92.
As a part of the Hopkins manuscripts, there are numerous miscellaneous items from English and Indian railroads, 1830-1868,
non-railroad transportation items, timetables, tickets, legal documents and the like.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. When required,
it is the researcher's responsibility to obtain such permissions. However, most of these materials are believed to be in the
public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Railroads -- History
Transportation -- History.
Railroads -- Great Britain -- History
Railroads -- United States.
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Miller, E. H. , Jr. (Edward Hunting), 1824 or 1825-1892
Series 1. ENGLAND - IRELAND
Box 1, folder 1
London and N. W. Railway, Manchester and Lincolnshire Railway reports
Jul 11, 1846 - Jun 11, 1859
Box 1, folder 2
Agreements between proprietors of canal navigation from Leeds to Liverpool and Northwestern Railway, etc.
1851-56
Box 1, folder 3
Robert Stevenson-F. Broughton, handwritten letters
1803-1859
Box 2, folder 1
Portadown, Dungannon & Armagh Junction Railway Bill, Belfast, Hollywood & Bangor Railway Bill
1860. 1860.
Box 2, folder 1a
Robert Stevenson - handwritten letters (cont.)
Box 2, folder 1b
Index, dating referring to Agreements
1845-1869
Box 2, folder 2
Agreements with East Lancashire Railway Corp., etc.
1847-59
Box 2, folder 3
The Bristol & Gloucester Railway Co. with Messrs. Stothert & Slaughter
Jun 7, 1844
Box 2, folder 4
Report on Brighton Railway, etc., gradients -
1838 (?)
Box 3, folder 1
Railway Clearing House - London,
Apr 26, 1842-Dec 16, 1857
Box 3, folder 2
Report on Mileage and Stations, etc., Belfast, Hollywood, & Bangor Railway
Box 3, folder 3
Agreement between London Northwestern Railway and Lancashire & Carlisle Railway
1857
Box 3, folder 4
Ledger and drawings for aquaduct and bridge for Sheffield Canal, etc.
1816-18
Series 2. ENGLAND - INDIA - CHILE - AUSTRIA
Box 4, folder 1-2
Southampton, Manchester & Oxford Junction Railway
Box 4, folder 2a
Miscellaneous English railway mss. & pamphlets, especially Midland Railway
Box 4, folder 3
Proposed railway to join London and Southampton
1830
Box 4, folder 3a
Vester Railway, Report of inspection
Jan 1866.
Box 4, folder 4
British Railway traffic statements
1852-3
Box 4, folder 5
Passenger Contract Ticket on ship Webster
Box 4, folder 6
Railroad Herald Accounts Ledger (British) - [partially]
1846, 1845, 1847
Box 4, folder 7
Altringham to Manchester (Mainline).
Box 4, folder 8
Lahore and Peshawar Railway
1866-68.
Box 4, folder 9
East Indian Railway specifications
1854.
Box 4, folder 9a
East Indian Railway Subsidiary Traffic Orders
1883.
Box 4, folder 11
Imperial train of the Südbahn sketch of cars
Series 3. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD MEMORABILIA
Box 7, folder 1
Book of Clippings, Funding Bill, Contains anti-Central Pacific/Stanford propaganda [cartoons, flyers, etc.], time schedules
and listing of rates for fares
1888-97. 1869.
Container Summary: (copies)
Box 7, folder 2
Book of Clippings - anti-railroad material.
Box 7, folder 3
Book of Clippings - as above.
Box 8, folder 1
Scrap book, Apr-May, newspaper accounts, reports of CPRR affairs.
1884 -
Box 8, folder 2
Scrap book, newspaper accounts, reports of CPRR affairs.
Jan 1885 -
Box 8, folder 3
Scrap book, as above.
1884-92 -
Box 9, folder 1
Scrap book, newspaper accounts, etc.
1871-83 -
Box 9, folder 2
Scrap book, as above.
Feb-Apr, 1884 -
Box 9, folder 3
Scrap book, as above.
May 1884-Jan 1886 -
Series 4. CENTRAL & SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD ETC. - E. H. MILLER, JR., PRIVATE LETTERS & OTHER DOCUMENTS
Box 12, folder 1
Jun 21 1889 - Dec 1890
Container Summary: [originals].
Box 12, folder 1
Dec 18 1890 - Jan 31 1892.
Box 13, folder 1
E.H. Miller, Jr. Horse Book.
Box 13, folder 2
E.H. Miller, Jr. Day Book,
Jan 1871-Dec 1885.
Box 13, folder 2
E.H. Miller, Jr. Day Book,
Nov 1859-Dec 1860.
Box 13, folder 3
E.H. Miller, Jr. Day Book,
Nov 1859-Dec 1860.
Box 13, folder 4
E.H. Miller Ledger
1863-71
Box 13, folder 5
E.H. Miller Ledger
1871-76
Box 14, folder 1
E.H. Miller letters (in bound volume)
Feb. 2, 1892 - Nov. 23, 1892
Box 14, folder 2
Ledger
Jan 1, 1877 - 1884
Box 14, folder 3
Miller & Green Ledger
Aug 1869-77
Box 14, folder 4
Brown & Miller Day Book
Jan 1877-88
Box 14, folder 5
Miller & Redding Day Book
Oct 1882-87
Box 14, folder 6
Deed - Central Pacific Railway Co. to John S. Hittell
Box 14, folder 7
San Lorenzo Railway Co. prospectus
1869-71
Box 14, folder 8
Virginia & Truckee Railway
1879
Container Summary: (payment check).
Box 14.2
Central Pacific Railway - shipping ledger (oversize)
Nov. 1880
Box 15, folder 1
Brown & Miller Day Book
Jan 1877-85.
Box 15, folder 2
Oak Park Ledger No. 1, owners, W.W. Brown, Miller, Montague & Arthur Brown
1873-89
Box 15, folder 3
Erie Canal Enlargement
1851.
Box 15, folder 4
E.H. Miller's check book
1871-2
Box 16, folder 1
E.H. Miller (CPRR) taxes
1874-95
Container Summary: [3 folders].
Box 16, folder 2
Union Pacific Railway Co. reports
1864-66
Box 16, folder 3
Legal Brief - Huntington, Stanford, Hollister [CPRR]
Apr 8, 1873.
Box 16, folder 4
Hyde Clark Correspondence, (Most from John Herapath). Railroad contracts
1838-95. 1840s.
Box 17, folder 1
San Francisco and San Jose Railroad timetables
1864-68.
Box 17, folder 1a
California Street Cable Railroad Co.
Box 17, folder 2
Southern Pacific Railroad
1885-
Container Summary: stock certificates.
Box 17, folder 2a
Suggestions for enlarging the scope of the hospital system of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads
Aug 25, 1883.
Box 17, folder 3
Union Pacific Railroad Co. Chief Engineer's Report.
Box 17, folder 4
Pacific and Atlantic Railroad reports from Chief Engineer (2)
1852
Related Materials
See also Box 5 Folder 5
Box 17, folder 5
Railroad and Locomotive Historical Society Report-Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad.
Scope and Contents note
Union Tank Car (prior 1927) - history.
Box 17, folder 6
Farmers and Merchants Association for Prevention of Railway Extortion.
Box 17, folder 7
US District Court [Huntington vs City of Oakland]
Nov 1880
Box 17, folder 8
US District Court [Huntington vs City of Oakland]
Feb 1881
Box 17, folder 9
US District Court [Huntington vs City of Oakland]
Mar 1881
Box 17, folder 11
Ship clearance papers signed by President Franklin Pierce
1854.
Box 17, folder 12
Santa Barbara Lands
Container Summary: (diagram and map).
Box 17, folder 13
A. C. Bassett - Southern Pacific Railroad
Box 17, folder 14
Carmel-Monterey Railroad, advertisement
1901
Box 17, folder 15
Photostat of request by President Andrew Johnson for permission to build Central Pacific Railroad [piece of last tie
1869].
Box 17, folder 16
Miscellaneous - passes, etc. original letter, documents and letterpress of Mark Hopkins. Three photocopies of Mark Hopkins
letters
1849.
Box 17, folder 17
Timothy Hopkins' notes of railroads
Box 17, folder 19
Yosemite Valley Railroad Co. Shares
Box 17, folder 20
Shares and bonds of various railroads.
Box 17, folder 21
Pahrump Valley Railroad Co. Prospectus
Box 18
Southern Pacific Railroad timetables
1894-1901
Box 6, folder 5
Ledger of Miller, Stanford, Hopkins.
Box 6, folder 6
Minutes of meeting of Sacramento Land Assn - (Miller gift)
Apr 27, 1869.
Box 6, folder 7
Subscription book of Southwestern Street Railway Co. [San Jose and Santa Clara]
1876
Box 6, folder 8
Map - Right of way and track, Santa Rosa Branch. Napa junction to Santa Rosa (Southern Pacific Railroad). Document - Western
Pacific Railroad land grant to Charles McLaughlin (signed) Leland Stanford, E. A. Miller and notarized
10-26-1869
Series 5. HOPKINS DOCUMENTS
Box 19
Legislative drafts, legal documents [deeds, articles of association, charters, etc.]
1861-1873
Scope and Contents note
Business memoranda - billings, invoices, etc.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
v
Box 19
Legislative drafts, case summaries, ordinances, law suit [Main vs CPRR], etc.
1860-1885
Scope and Contents note
Business memoranda - inventories, etc.
Box 5, folder 1
Schooners Rambler and Unity - financial records
Box 5, folder 2
Manuscript (eulogy) on George Stevenson by Thomas Summerside
1873.
Box 5, folder 3
Report on Northern Electric Railway.
Vallejo Electric Railway.
Sacramento Street Railway.
Box 5, folder 4
Sketches for construction of S.F. mole, etc. [blueprints]
Box 5, folder 5
Report of Chief Engineer on Pacific & Atlantic Railway Co.
1851
Related Materials
See also Box 17, Folder 4
Box 6, folder 1
Letters and two documents, papers of M.A. Ives.
Box 6, folder 2
Letters and telegrams to Butler Ives
1862-70
Biographical / Historical
From Nevada Historical Society files:
BUTLER IVES
Born January 31st, 1830 Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the youngest of ten children; died December, 1872 near
Vallejo, California; buried Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan.
Educated University of Michigan. Parents; Butler Ives and Olive Hall Morse. His ancestors, John Moss (afterwards changed to
Morse) and William Ives were among Governor Eaton's party who first settled New Haven April, 1638.
His greatest work consisted of pioneer engineering, surveying and locating the line of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
between San Francisco and Salt Lake City, working under Leland Stanford and Samuel S. Montague, chief engineer. The papers
-- seventy in number -- relating to this work have been sent to the Leland Stanford University. His contract for the locating
and surveying of the boundary line between the Territory of Nevada and the State of California -- running south and southeasterly
from Oregon -- will be sent to the Historical Society of the State of Nevada. The Ives papers in general, running back to
1754, together with the old family bible are deposited for safekeeping with the Clarence Burton Historical Society, Detroit.
His brother, Caleb Ives, went west on the death of Butler, December, 1872, and returned with his effects and papers. The latter
were given to Marvin A. Ives by his father, Caleb, in his last days saying,
"I want you to have Butler's papers. He was a noble man.
The writer met about twelve years ago near Ann Arbor, Michigan an old companion, Michel J. Noyes, who had not seen Butler
Ives for fifty years. His first words when I met him were,
He was the finest man I have ever known.
Among his effects was a letter of introduction dated December, 1862 to ___________ Miller, Banker of Sacramento, California
from George A. Thayer, one of the first mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who likewise spoke of him in the very highest terms,
both as a gentleman and as an engineer.
Respectfully submitted,
signed (Marvin A. Ives)
Ojai, California.
May 9, 1931."
Box 6, folder 2a
Four photocopies of letters, Chief Engineers Office Order book of Mrs. Mark Hopkins
1869, 1872-3.
Box 6, folder 3
Order book of Mrs. Mark Hopkins.
Box 6, folder 4
Book containing names of students using Hopkins' Library
Series 6. HOPKINS CORRESPONDENCE
1860-1885
Box 20
HOPKINS CORRESPONDENCE index
Scope and Contents
Bound list of contents for 2 above [Hopkins Documents], 12 below [Hopkins correspondence] and Leland Stanford vol.
Box 20
Letter of transmittal, Timothy Hopkins 1865-1871
1923
Container Summary: (199 entries)
Box 20
Letters of Collis P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and others.
Box 20
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, etc. Miscellaneous documents appended - telegrams, pamphlets,
clippings, etc.
Jan 2, 1872 Oct 1, 1872
Container Summary: (197 entries)
Box 21
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and others.
Oct 2, 1872 Mar 10, 1873
Container Summary: (187 entries)
Box 21
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Alfred A. Cohen, and others. Telegrams and miscellaneous documents appended.
Mar 10, 1873
Container Summary: (167 entries)
Box 22
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins. Notice of first CPRR dividend, telegrams, newspaper clippings [the California
elections] appended.
Aug 26, 1873 Nov 26, 1873
Container Summary: (199 entries)
Box 22
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, R. Franchot to Huntington.
Nov 29, 1873 Apr 8, 1874
Container Summary: (193 entries)
Box 23
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and others. Letters of I. E. Gates to Mark Hopkins.
Apr 10, 1874 Jul 9, 1875
Container Summary: (179 entries)
Box 23
Letters of I. E. Gates to Mark Hopkins. Letters of C. P. Huntington to Hopkins.
Aug 25, 1875 Apr 10, 1876
Container Summary: (147 entries)
Box 24
Letters of C. P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins. Note appended by Timothy Hopkins [entry 185] explaining conclusion of struggle
between Central Pacific and Texas Pacific interests.
Apr 17, 1876 Nov 26, 1886
Container Summary: (191 entries)
Box 24
Letters of E. B. Crocker, Alfred A. Cohen, W. C. Ralston to Mark Hopkins. Telegrams, notices, miscellaneous correspondence
appended.
Nov 12, 1863 Oct 13, 1869
Container Summary: (193 entries)
Box 25
Memorandum of dates of railroad construction, J. L. Wilcutt, Miscellaneous correspondence between W. C. Ralston, E. B. Crocker,
Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and A. A. Cohen. Copies of CP business transactions - promissory notes, drafts, etc.
Oct 19, 1869 Dec 6, 1872 Mar 31, 1913.
Container Summary: (191 entries)
Box 25
Miscellaneous correspondence between Mark Hopkins, W. C. Ralston, A. A. Cohen, and others. Letters of E. E. Hewitt to Mark
Hopkins. Copies of business documents, promissory notes, etc. Two letters from Timothy Hopkins to G. T. Clark. Also the deed
of sale of land in Sacramento by Mary Hopkins, on
Dec 12, 1872 Jan 10, 1924 1/30/80.
Container Summary: (199 entries)
Series 7. Hopkins Transportation Library correspondence
1893-1895 ; 1937-1952
Scope and Contents
These files contain collection development correspondence with various companies including manufacturers, publishers, antiquarian/book
dealers, trade associations, unions, institutes, and universities, as well as military and government sources. A few files
also contain press releases, sample brochures and other publications. There is also correspondence with and on behalf of researchers.
Many files contain a single item, frequently an outgoing draft request for material.
The earlier file consists of correspondence from Timothy Hopkins to Stanford librarian E.H. Woodruff, as well as to and from
various dealers and companies offering historical railroad material. Bills and invoices are also enclosed. Some correspondence
is by Hopkins' secretary James Severance. This file, dating from September 1893 to March 1895, is not only some of the earliest
about the Hopkins Railroad Library, but concerning the Library itself. Particularly of note is an 1894 letter from the International
Brotherhood of Firemen signed by Eugene V. Debs.
Jeanette Hitchcock as Rare Books curator and later head of Special Collections wrote many of later series letters, as did
HTL Librarian Melvin C. Oathout. Carolyn Mohr appears to have been the last Hopkins Librarian. A few letters are by Edwin
T. Coman, jr. Director of the Business Library. There are scattered letters as early as 1937, but majority are post-war, ending
at 1952. These have been filed alphabetically, but no full listing is available.
Box 26
Timothy Hopkins acquisition correspondence
1893-1895
Box 28
Anson Press - Better Roads
Box 29
The Binnacle - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Box 30
Chile Aero - Export Trade & Shipper
Box 32
Hawaiian Airlines - G. Kolff & Co.
Box 33
L - Missouri Pacific Lines
Box 34
Model Aviation - Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.
Box 35
Nitrate Railways - Purdue University
Box 37
Mrs. Esther Ruth Smith - Transcontinental/Western Air
Box 38
Transit Topics - State of Wisconsin
Box 39
World's Carriers - Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.