Collis P. Huntington

[Telegram]

PARIS LONDON 3978 28 24/1 5/7 S

RECEIVED FOLLOWING CABLEGRAM FOR YOU LATHROP SELLING SOUTHERN PACIFIC BONDS ALMOST DAILY SPEYER THINK IT WRONG TO DO I SIGNED HUNTINGTON + ORIENTAL BANK +

New York, 22 Jan. (1874)

Mark Hopkins

Have you answered my dispatch fifteenth and seventeenth and when If not answer by telegraph and send details by mail. Give value of land received for San Francisco and Sacramento at time grant was made (to) company. Send by first mail as requested of answer in Brannan suit.

C. P. Huntington

(copy of translation of telegram) (Answer is in writing of Leland Stanford & was forwarded 1/23/74 by Samuel A Hopkins, secretary of Mark Hopkins)

New York 22 Jan (1874)

Mark Hopkins

^{Have you answered my dispatch} Misery Dew Fifteenth and seventeeth

^{[gap] if not [gap]} and when Cage Real answer

^{By telegraph and send [gap]} Ash retail Kid Bloat Details

^{by Mail [gap] give [gap]} Ash Bark Banish palm Value

^{of Land received for} Dew Caper Hinder Lamb

^{San Francisco [gap] Sacramento at [gap]} Consul and Vandal Hag Time

^{[gap] [gap] made [gap] Company} Grant was Joy Civil mortar

^{Send by [gap] Mail as requested} Bloat Ash First Bark Bison

Telegram (translation)

C.P. Huntington to Leland Stanford 24 Oct 1873.

Von Hoffman tell me they have written Belloc Freres to see you about C.P.RR earnings & when we can pay balance due them

Have told them our floating debt is about $ 300,000 which we intend to pay from earnings

Thinks can get them to carry balance

We must provide for Jany, interest & you must not promise too much

Deposit the 20,000 at once. See my dispatch of 23rd to Hopkins

Must have some to pay current & bills payable here

Leland Stanford NY 24 / 10 (1873)

Prst CPRR

^{Van Hoffman [gap] me this morning -- [gap] they} Wrist told gore drat that aunt

^{have [gap] to [gap] [gap] to} jack written curl belloc freres curl

^{[gap] you [gap] CPRR Earnings and [gap]} see ox about badger and can Kid when

^{we can [illegible] the [gap]} nurse oak varnish smart balance

^{now due them [gap] [gap] to them} malt fall bruno x flax said curl bruno

^{our [gap] [gap] is [gap] three hundred Thousand} deal floating debt peg about soda bag

^{[gap] [gap] we [gap] to half} or which nurse intent curl varnish

^{from our Earnings I [gap] we can} lamb deed indian + flax think mystic

^{[gap] them to [gap] [gap] due} get bruno curl carry balance jail

^{them here we must provide for} bruno brig nurse bead seal lamb

^{interest in any event and you must} anvil linnet lap kid ox bead

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