124.] [Footnote 1042: Mason Papers.

Spence to Mason, Jan.

3, 1863.

Liverpool.] [Footnote 1043: The _Index_, Jan.

29, 1863, p.217.The active agent in control of the _Index_ was Henry Hotze, who, in addition to managing this journal, used secret service funds of the Confederacy to secure the support of writers in the London press.