Lavender, Great Persuader, 213-22.
See also Stanford to CPH, May 1, 1875, SC 33a, box 1, f. 16, Stanford Papers.
Testimony of CPH, PRC, 1:36.
CPH to Crocker, May 17, 1869, Huntington Letters 1:429
CPH to Stanford, May 26, 1869, Huntington Letters, 1:433
Jordan, Conkling, 104, 420-21.
Oliver Ames to E. Atkins, June 11, 1874, UP, OVP, IC.
Rothman, Politics and Power, 27-30.
Charles J. McClain, "From the Huntington Papers: The Huntington-Conkling Connection," Pacific Historian 29 (Winter 1985): 31-46.
CPH to Stanford, May 26, 1869, Octopus Speaks, 145.
For investments for Conkling, CPH to Conkling, Dec. 22, 1880, CPH Papers, ser. 2, r. 12.