Franchot to CPH, Jan. 9, 1874, LB, 6:71, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
See also Tichenor to Dodge, June 17, 1873, W. E. Chandler to Dodge, March 29, 1873, General Correspondence, box 8, Dodge Papers.
Franchot to CPH, Feb. 19, 1874, LB, 6:153, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
The initial weakness of Huntington's counterattack was William McKendree Gwin, whom the Southern Pacific hired to confront Dodge in the South.
For need of man in South, CPH to Hopkins, Oct. 8, 1875, v. 8: 39, Box 23, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, July 12, 1876, LB, 9:53, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
Colburn to CPH, Feb. 7, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
CPH to Hopkins, March 3, 25, 1876, LB, 8:95, 117, box 23, Hopkins Collection.
"liveliest," CPH to Colton, Feb. 14, 1876, Huntington Letters, 4:457-58.
CPH to Colton, Feb. 26, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 233-34.