A. N. Towne to CPH, Jan. 24, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9.
For other bad winters, Towne to CPH, Jan. 26, Feb. 7, 1876, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 9, Towne to CPH, Dec. 18, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.
Towne to CPH, Jan. 17, 1878, Feb. 26, 1878, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 14.
Menahem Blondheim, News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1994), 98-99, 108-9, 191.
Richard John, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2010),145-46.
Blondheim, News over the Wires, 129-33, 147-51, 157, 162, 163-68, 174, 98-99.
Menahem Blondheim, "Public Sentiment Is Everything: The Unions Public Communications Strategy and the Bogus Proclamation of 1864," Journal of American History 89 (Dec. 2002): 6-7, 10, 18-19.
Hopkins to CPH, Nov. 28, 1872, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.
Blondheim, News over the Wires, 149, 165, 175.
CPH to Hopkins, March 31, 1876, LB, 8:135, box 23, CPH to Stanford, Jan. 30, 1874, LB, 6:121, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
CPH to Hopkins, Aug. 25, 1873, LB, 4:162, box 21, Hopkins Collection.
Godkin to Villard, June 7, 1893, in William A. Armstrong, ed., The Gilded Age Letters of E. L. Godkin (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1974), 446-48.
Mahl Memoirs, Huntington J-3, p. 8, box aE461, CPH 1882-1900, Mahl Papers.