Day of election, Hyde to CPH, Aug. 27, 1872, LB, 2:205-9, box 2.
Hyde to Wife, Dec. 3, 1869, box 2, f. 8, both in Hyde Papers.
Hyde to Stanford, Sept. 1872, LB, 2:223, box 1, f. 3, Hyde Papers.
Huntington originally proposed a $2 million bribe, but decided $1 million would suffice. He had good judgment in such things.
CPH to Hopkins, Sept. 14, 18, 1872, LB, 2:179, 175-79, both in box 20, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, March 19, 1872, LB, 2:63, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
On constituency I differ from Margaret Thompson's impressive account of Gilded Age lobbying, and the friendship I describe is not the same as what she discusses.
The Morrissey quotation is from Union Pacific Employes' Magazine, (September 1886), 1.
The second quotation is from Mark Wahlgren Summers, Era of Good Stealings, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993), 109.