Keating to Randall, Sept. 9, 1877, correspondence, box 38, Randall Papers.
Chauncey Black to Randall, May 12, 1877, J. N. Keating to Randall, June 4, 1877, S. J. Sanendweiss? to Randall, June 1, 1877, all in correspondence, box 34.
Beverly Tucker to Randall, May 2, 1877, W. S. Holman to Randall, Aug. 14, 1877, C. W. Wooley to Randall, May 1, 1877, box 33.
I. F. Coyle to Randall, June 22, 1877, box 35.
CFB to Randall, Aug. 22, 1877, box 37, all in Randall Papers.
N. E. Piollet to Randall, Aug. 3, 1877, correspondence, box 37, Randall Papers; encloses a postcard from D. Aiken to Piollet, Aug. 3, 1877.
Thompson says that the Texas and Pacific failed to get a majority, but Huntington's lobbyists thought otherwise.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 16, 1877, Boyd to CPH, Nov. 29, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.
Thompson, Spiders Web, 203.
Boyd to Gates, Dec. 9, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951), 65-67.