[1177] Mason Papers.

[1178] Sample letter in Mason Papers.

[1179] Mason Papers. Mason to Lindsay, May 29, 1864.

[1180] Ibid., Lindsay to Mason, May 30, 1864.

[1181] Editorials of May 28 and 30, 1864, painted a dark picture for Northern armies.

[1182] Mason Papers. Sample letter, June I, 1864. Signed by F.W. Tremlett, Hon. Sec.

[1183] Ibid., Tremlett to Mason, June 2, 1864.

[1184] State Department, Eng., Vol. 86, No. 705. Adams to Seward, June 2, 1864.

[1185] June 3, 1864.

[1186] Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, June 8, 1864. Mason wrote to Benjamin that Disraeli had said "to one of his friends and followers" that he would be prepared to bring forward some such motion as that prepared by Lindsay. (Mason's Mason, p. 500. To Benjamin, June 9, 1864.) Evidently the friend was Hunter.