A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

[983] Boutwell, Reminiscences of Sixty Years, Vol. 2, p. 274.

[984] New York Tribune, January 7, 1882.

[985] Hoar, Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 57.

[986] Boutwell, Reminiscences, Vol. 2, p. 273.

[987] Ibid., p. 274.

[988] Conversation with the author, December 7, 1908.

[989] Mrs. James G. Blaine, Letters (March 24, 1881), Vol. 1, p. 197.

[990] Reminiscences, Vol. 2, p. 273.

[991] Alfred R. Conkling, Life of Conkling, p. 637.

[992] For full text of telegram see New York Tribune, January 7, 1882. This confidential despatch found its way into the public press. "It must have been stolen from the wires," wrote Hay. "Nobody but myself has ever seen it—not even Garfield. I read it to him. It has been under lock and key ever since."—Mrs. James G. Blaine, Letters, Vol. 1, p. 286.