CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 15, 1873, LB, 5:59, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
Blondheim, News over the Wires, 174-77, 183-85, 195.
Blondheim, News over the Wires, 172, 191.
Robin Winks, Frederick Billings: A Life (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991), 88-89, 193, 195.
Harnsberger, Jay Cooke and Minnesota, 80-81.
Cooke to Lorin, Jan. 7, 1873, Cooke to Cass, Oct. 25, 1872, Cooke Papers; Larson, Cooke, 376-77, 392-93, 401, 405.
Missouri, Cooke to O. W. Mead, April 1, 1873, LBs, Cooke Papers.
Poor, Manual, 1873-84, 393.
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.