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).
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.
For Booth, Lavender, Great Persuader, 311.
Rothman misinterprets Sargent,
Rothman, Politics and Power, 201.
William Deverell, Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 29-31, 55, 59-60.
CPH to Colton, Nov. 1, 13, 1874, Huntington Letters, 4:216, 219.