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.
Conkling to CPH, Jan. 24, Feb. 1, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 18.
CPH to Conkling, Dec. 22, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 12.
Thompson, Spiders Web, 167-72, 276-77.
George C. Benson, Political Corruption in America (Toronto: Lexington Books, 1978), 61.
Dodge to Chandler, Dec. 26, 1875, box 160, LBs, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.
Philadelphia Sunday Morning News, n.d. 1878, enclosure with Frazier to CPH, Nov. 6, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 15.
John Covode to U. H. Painter, Dec. 10, 1870, box 2, Painter to Scott, April 9, 1871, box 30, Painter LBs, 1871-76, Painter Papers.