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Chapter 3: Friends, footnote 12, page 98

Ch3 fn. 12
p. 98
Tags:
Discursive, Manuscript Collections, Published Letters/Correspondence, Histories and Biographies, Special Collections (Stanford University), Corruption

In the mid 1880s both the Knights of Labor and rival newspapers believed Jay Gould had taken control of the Associated Press and the New York Sun.

I. Bromley, "The Newspapers and the Company," Aug. 10, 1886, U.P., MS 3761 SG2 S1, Box 32, f. Bromley-Burness. CPH to Hopkins, May 12, 1876, 9: 19, box 24, Hopkins Correspondence.

CPH to Colton, Dec. 8, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 325.

James Simonton to George Kenyon Fitch, Jan. 21, 1873, C-B 761, box 1, Fitch Papers. Franchot to CPH, Jan. 11, 1872, v. 2: 19, box 20, Hopkins Collection.

CPH to Hopkins, March 16, 1876, v. 8: 115, box 23, Hopkins Collection.

Fitch to Simonton, Dec. 8, 1875, C.-B 761 box 1, Fitch Papers.

Gould and Western Union, Adams to W.B. Strong, Sept. 19, 1885, UP, P.O., O.C. v. 29, ser. 2, r. 25..

Jay Gould and the Associated Press," Union Pacific Employes' Magazine (Oct. 1886), 263-64.

Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 395-96.