Baker, Moral Frameworks of Public Life, 27-32.
Crain was a congressman from Texas.
CPH to Crocker, May 17, 1869, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 49.
Testimony of Leland Stanford, Aug. 10, 1887, PRC, 6:3161-200.
William Mahl, Memoir, L.E.M. 3, B-15, Mahl Papers.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 241-42.
For a similar transaction, see CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 30 1871, v. 1 p. 199, Box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, July 18, 1876, LB, 9:57, box 24, Hopkins Collection.
David M. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1971), 413, 417.