Mills to CPH, Dec. 25, 30, 1891, Jan. 6, 1892, CPH to Mills, Jan. 12, 1892, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 50.
Williams, Democratic Party and California Politics, 147-52; H. Mills to CPH, Dec. 15, 1891 (two letters), CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 50.
CPH to E. Denison, June 1, 1892, CPH Papers, vol. 227, ser. 2, r. 33.
CPH to F. Stone, July 11, 1892, CPH Papers, vol. 228, ser. 2, r. 33.
I would like to thank Richard Orsi for bringing the Mahl material to my attention.
Mahl Memoir, Southern Pacific Co., F 18, Colonel Samuel Gill, SG-23, J. Kruttschnitt to W. Mahl, Dec. 31, 1895, box 2E460, all in Mahl Papers.
If Mahl were a novelist, the technique would be what Viktor Shklovsky, father of Russian formalism, named skaz, where the narrator describes a scene and delivers a judgment, which utterly misread the scene. Skaz creates a reader who knows more than the narrator, but Mahl is not a novelist.
Mahl Memoir, CPH 27, B-15, Mahl Papers.