Hopkins to CPH, Feb. 4, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.
CPH to Hopkins, March 11, 1872, LB, 2:43, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
R. Franchot to CPH, June 12, 1870, LB, 1:143, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
For change in politics, see Nicolas Barryere, "Politics of Economic Crises: The Case of 1873" (Paper, SSHA Conference, Nov. 13, 2009).
Franchot to CPH, Jan. 9, 1874, LB, 6:71, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
See also Tichenor to Dodge, June 17, 1873, W. E. Chandler to Dodge, March 29, 1873, General Correspondence, box 8, Dodge Papers.
Franchot to CPH, Feb. 19, 1874, LB, 6:153, box 22, Hopkins Collection.