T. Stillman to CPH, Aug. 31, 1888, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 357-58.
CPH to Gates, March 4, 1889, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 47.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 359-60.
Huntington would, having replaced Stanford, claim his opposition was only to Stanford's political methods, because Stanford was irrelevant to the railroad: he had "interfered with me so little in the last thirty years."
Lavender, Great Persuader, 344-46.
CPH to James Speyer, Dec. 6, 1899, p. 12-14, CPH Papers, ser. 4, r. 1.
CPH to Mills, Jan. 9, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 50
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.
Delmatier et al., Rumble of California Politics, 99.
CPH to S. I. Gage, May 8, 1886, Stanford Papers, SC 33a, box 2, f. 4.