Jay Cooke to Lorin, Jan. 7, 1873, Cooke to Fahny & Garland, Feb. 1, 1873, Cooke to LDM Sweat, March 1, 1873, Cooke to M. B. Lowry, April 4, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Larson, Cooke, 346.
Fahnestock to Cooke, Sept. 18, 1869, B.3, f.3-2, Fahnestock Papers.
Cooke Memoir, 136, 148.
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1984), 75.
For attempts to monitor the credibility of stock and bond offerings, see John Bonk to J. L. Worth, Feb. 3, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.