CPH to Hopkins, July 18, 1876, LB, 9:57, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
David M. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1971), 413, 417.
CPH to Hopkins, March 15, 1876, LB, 8:111, box 23, Hopkins Collection.
Flagg to CPH, Dec. 8, 1877, CPH Papers, r. 13, ser. 1.
Octopus Speaks, 550.
S. C. Pomeroy to CPH, May 26, 1876, LB, 9:27, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, March 11, 1872, LB, 2:43, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
R. Franchot to CPH, June 12, 1870, LB, 1:143, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
For change in politics, see Nicolas Barryere, "Politics of Economic Crises: The Case of 1873" (Paper, SSHA Conference, Nov. 13, 2009).