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John Milton Hay
[Carte de Visite Photograph, J. Gurney-Photography] [Source: Picturehistory.com] John Hay was born in Salem, Indiana in 1938. He studied at Brown Univerity and began the practice of law in the law office of Milton Hay, Springfield, Illinois in 1861. During the Civil War he fought with the Union, held the rank of colonel, and served as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln. After the war, Hay assumed various diplomatic posts in Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, and was appointed ambassador to Great Britain. He was U.S. Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905 in the administrations of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. The following John Hay chronology is a verbatim rendition of a Biographical Note, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.:
Images [image #1] [image #2] Poems [Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle] [Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle] [The Mystery of Gilgal] [Hymn of the Knights Templars] [Liberty] [The Surrender of Spain] [Christine] [Pike County Ballads] [Little Breeches] [Little Breeches] [The Stirrup-Cup] [Good Luck and Bad Luck] [Mystery of Gilgal] Poetry John Hay, Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (Boston: Osgood and Company, 1871)(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, 1881) [online text] ______, Poems (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,1890) (1891) (1896) (1997) (1899) (1913) [online text (London, Publisher: J. Lane, Bodley Head)] [online text] _______, The Complete Poetical Works (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916)(Houghton Mifflin, Household ed., 1917)(New York: AMS Press, 1970) [Houghton Mifflin, 1917 ed., online text] _______, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle (Austin, Indiana: Muscatatuck Press, 1963) Writings John Hay, Castillian Days (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1871)
Correspondence & Journals Michael Burlingame & John R.Turner Ettlinger (eds.) Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civl War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997) George Monteiro & Brenda Murphy (eds.), John Hay-Howellls Letters: The Correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells 1861-1905 (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980) A College Friendship: A Series of Letters from John Hay to Hannah Angell (Boston: priv. print., D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1938) William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915)(2 vols.) Caroline Ticknor, A Poet in Exile: Early Letters of John Hay (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910) Clara Stone Hay and Henry Adams (eds.), Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary (Washington, D.C.: priv. print., 1908)(New York: Gordian Press, 1969) Writings John Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (New York: Da Capo Press, 1988)(Westport, Connecticut: Negro Universities Press, 1972)(1939) _______, Addresses of John Hay (New York: Century Co., 1906)(Century Co., 1907) _______, Lincoln at the Helm, as described at the Time by John Hay's Letter (New York: Century Co., 1909) _______, Memorial Address on the Life and Character of William McKinley (Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1903) _______, Little Breeches, and other Pieces Humorous, Descriptive, and Pathetic (London: J.C. Hotten, 1871) _______, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle and Little Breeches (Boston: Osgood and Company, 1871)(Austin, Indiana: Muscatatuck Press, 1963) _______, Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln (New York: Century Co., 1890) _______, Abraham Lincoln: A History (New York: Century, 1890)(10 vols.)(with John G. Nicolay) _______, The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (New York: Harper & Row, 1893)(New Haven, Connecticut: College & Univesity Press, 1973)(Charles Vandersee ed.) _______, Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works: Comprising His Speches, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings (New York: Century Company, 1894)(co-edited with John G. Nicolay)(2 vols.) Bibliography Michael Burlingam (ed.), At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univesity Press, 2000) Michael Burlingam (ed.), Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1998) Tyler Dennett, John Hay: From Poetry to Politics (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1934) Kenton J. Clymer, John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975) Robert L. Gale, John Hay (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978) Howard I. Kushner & Anne Hummel Sherrill, John Milton Hay: The Union of Poetry and Politics (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977) George Monteiro, Henry James and John Hay: The Record of a Friendship (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1965) ______________ (ed.), The Blood Seeling and Other Tales: The Uncollected Fiction of John Hay (Providence, Rhode Island: Cut Flower Press, 1972) Lorenzo Sears, John Hay: Author and Statesman (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914) Warren Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002) Bibliography: Biographical Sketches Philip B. Eppard, "John Hay," in Eric L. Haralson (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998)
Chandler B. Beach, The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers Students and Families (Chicago: F. E. Compton and Company, 1909)
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