Fahnestock to Cooke, June 8, 1872, Fahnestock to Cooke and Wm. G., Sept. 7, 1872, box 3, f. 32, Fahnestock Papers.
For mismanagement, see also Pitt Cooke to Jay Cooke, Pitt Cooke to Jay Cooke, May 13, 1872, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Berton, Impossible Railway, 52-55, 77-80, 83, 121.
testimony of John Macdonald, Sept. 17, 1873, Report of the Royal Commissioners, Canadian Pacific Railway Correspondence, 171-73.
Americans, J. Gregory Smith to Cooke, March 14, 1872, Cooke Papers; Hugh Allan to an American gentleman . . . in New York, July 1, 1872, Aug. 7, 1872, 55-57.
Earl of Dufferin to Earl of Kimberly, Aug. 15, 1873, no. 4, p. 8.
Allan contended that he informed the Americans in October of 1872 that his negotiations with them were at an end and that he wrote New York to this effect in December.
Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, Cooke to McCulloch, March 28, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.
Berton, National Dream 86.
Cooke to Fahnestock, March 3, 1873, LBs, 1873, Cooke Papers.