Oakes Ames, Receipt, Jan. 23, 1868, box 37, Credit Mobilier, Dawes Papers.
Receipt, $195.33, Feb. 10, 1868, Dawes to My Ever Dear Wife, June 11, 1868, receipt, June 11, 1868, Ames to Dawes, Oct. 30, 1871, box 37, Credit Mobilier, Dawes Papers.
There is no sign in Dawes' correspondence that he objected to the dividends or had doubts about the stock even when suits commenced against it. He wrote Ames in November of 1871 in a way that indicated he retained the investment.
Dawes to Ames, Nov. 19, 1872, Dawes Papers, Box 37, Credit Mobilier.
Klein, Union Pacific, 291.
Ames to Dawes, Oct. 18, 1872, James Garfield to Dawes, March 23, 1873, box 37, Credit Mobilier, Dawes Papers.
Klein, Union Pacific, 292-93.
J. W. Patterson, Observations on the Report of the Committee of the Senate of the United States respecting the Credit Mobilier of America Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1873), 41-42, copy in box 37, Credit Mobilier, Dawes Papers.