Octopus Speaks, 301.
CPH to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.

Octopus Speaks, 301.
CPH to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.
Resolution of the Legislature of New York, Feb. 25, 1876, 44th Cong., 1st sess., S. Misc. Doc. 65.
T. C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, Boyd to CPH, Feb. 14, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
CPH to Colton, Feb. 14, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 232, 301.
The payment to Platt was phrased as a "loan."
Huntington to Colton, March 4, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 234.
T.C. Platt to CPH, Sept. 4, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 10.
Huntington to Hopkins, March 3, 1876, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 4: 467.
Summers, Railroads, 172-73.
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.