Cooke to Lorin, Jan. 7, 1873, Cooke to Cass, Oct. 25, 1872, Cooke Papers; Larson, Cooke, 376-77, 392-93, 401, 405.
Missouri, Cooke to O. W. Mead, April 1, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Poor, Manual, 1873-84, 393.
Fahnestock to Cooke, June 8, 1872, Fahnestock to Cooke and Wm. G., Sept. 7, 1872, box 3, f. 32, Fahnestock Papers.
For mismanagement, see also Pitt Cooke to Jay Cooke, Pitt Cooke to Jay Cooke, May 13, 1872, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Allan contended that he informed the Americans in October of 1872 that his negotiations with them were at an end and that he wrote New York to this effect in December.
Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.
Cooke to Puleston, Sept. 1, 1871, Northern Pacific, Letters no. 1 (LB), Jan. 19, 1870 - Sept. 27, 1871, Private Letters, Cooke Papers.