Jane Stanford destroyed most of Stanford's papers, but there was left a letter to S. I. Gage praising Stanford. Huntington wrote it when he made his last try to return A. A. Sargent to the Senate and wanted Stanford's help.
CPH to S. I. Gage, May 8, 1886, Stanford Papers, SC 33a, box 2, f. 4.
for Huntington's suspicions, CPH to S. T. Gage, Nov. 26, 1885, box 24, LB, 9:189, M92, Hopkins Collection.
White to J. D. Lynch, Jan. 14, 1887, White to J. W. Hellman, Jan. 14, 1887, White to H. M. Mitchell, Jan. 15, 1887, Correspondence, Outgoing, box 2, Letters from, vol. 1, Dec. 30, 1886, to Jan. 21, 1887, White Papers.
