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Note from page 677: 1. Dr. Charles H. Ray (1821 — 70) was editor-in-chief and Joseph Medill (1823 — 99) was managing editor of the Chicago Tribune.

Note from page 677: 2. William Clain (1818 — 1905), governor of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1871.

Note from page 677: 3. David K. Cartter (1812 — 87), Ohio delegate to the 1860 Republican convention.

Note from page 677: 4. Simon Cameron (1799 — 1889), U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and AL's first secretary of war.

Note from page 678: 5. A Treatise on American Railroad Law (New York, 1857); Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols. (Boston, 1877, 1893).

Note from page 678: 6. John Hay.

Note from page 678: 7. This sentence was written in the margin.

Note from page 678: 8. James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield, 2 vols. (Norwich, Conn., 1884 — 86).

Note from page 678: 9. In a letter to WHH dated September 27, 1889 (LC: HW3598 — 99), Pierce apologized for not signing his name to this letter.