Gates to Chambers, Jan. 8, 1885, CPH Papers, vol. 92, ser. 2, r. 15.
Also Gates to J. T. White, Jan. 31, 1885, Gates to A. N. Towne, July 15, 1885, C. Crocker to CPH, Dec. 10, 1883, no. 260, Crocker Papers.
Speyer & Co. to CPH, Feb. 11, 17, 1885, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 39.
For an account of the Barings in South America, see Philip Ziegler, The Sixth Great Power: Barings, 1762-1929 (London: Collins, 1988), 229-66.
A. G. Ford, "Argentina and the Baring Crisis of 1890, Oxford Economic Papers, n. s., 8, no. 2 (June 1956): 127-50.
Dietrich G. Buss, Henry Villard: A Study of Transatlantic Investments and Interests, 1870-1895 (New York: Arno Press, 1978), 170-75.
Northern Pacific Litigation, Examination of Thomas Oakes, 65, box 61, f. 432, Villard Papers.