J O H N H A Y From Poetry to Politics By TYLKR DKNNKTT . Ft I ATU
NA Till PKfAltTMEXr OF STATE DODD, MEAD COMPANY York 1934
COPYRIGHT, 1933 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. ALL EIGHTS RESERVED
NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT
PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER Published October, 1933
Second printing November, 1933 Third printing December, 1933 Fourth
printing March, 1934 Fifth, printing May, 1934 Sixth printing
November, 1934 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EY THE
VAIL-B ALLO U PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. hn l, n
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For many manuscripts and most of the illustrations,
to Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth, Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, and to Mr.
Clarence L. Hay but most of all for their fine tolerance which left
the author under no obligation except to discover and interpret as
best he could. This is in no sense a family biography, but it is a
pleasure to know that the publication will not make unhappy those
who best knew and most loved the subject. To certain princes in the
house of scholarship, for gifts of counsel, erudition, and
criticism J. Franklin Jameson, Charles A. Beard, M. A. DeWolfe
Howe, and Allan Nevins. To former colleagues in the Department of
State whose pleasure it would have been to do as much for any other
student, but whose assistance in this book is but one other of many
happy memories Hunter Miller, Edward Cyril Wynne, and Mrs. Natalia
Summers. To the blessed librarians Miss L. A. Eastman, Miss Ruth
Savord, H. L. Koopman, William A. Slade, Curtis W. Garrison, and
Miss Martha L. Gericke and especially to that great democratic
institution of letters, the Library of Congress. For permission to
use other material, chieflymanuscripts, privately owned or
controlled to Harry A. and James R. Garfield, Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, Robert A. Taft, Elihu Root, Worthington C. Ford, Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Charles S. Hamlin, William E. Louttit, Jr., and
to Miss Helen Nicolay who, in letters from John Hay to her
distinguished father, first appeared as the Blessed Babe and then
as Miss Butterfly. For help so varied as only biographers know to
Paul M. Angle, Poultney Bigelow, James P. Baxter, 3rd., Christopher
B. Coleman, Dixon Ryan Fox, David Gray, Joseph C. Green, Frederick
A. Gutheim, Logan Hay, Philip C. Jessup, John Bassett Moore, Henry
F. Pringle, Roger L. Rice, Mrs. Jackson H. Ralston, Mrs. Ward
Thoron, Charles Franklin Thwing, Alfred Vagts, A. T. Volwiler,
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., and B. S. Warner. To Raymond Dennett, who
has thus been deprived of other interesting diversions to assist in
proof-reading and checking. The list of the published writings of
John Hay, perhaps not definitive but sufficiently complete to
exhibit the development of his literary genius, published as
Appendix I, is the contribution of William E. Louttit, Jr. It is
due the reader to make one further acknowledgment. The following
pages are not all biography a little history crowded in. No one
will be offended if the less historically minded reader skips the
history. After all, man is more interesting, and instructive, than
men. TYLER DENNETT June 13, 1933 NOTE In thr following there are
frequent references to Letters anil Diaries. Although Mr. Hay
destroyed a large mass of his letters, he preserved copies of many
in letter-press copy-books, and in rough drafts, He also kept
journals or diaries intermittently, between 1861 am lHf 0.
ami.ajgain. from January 1, 1904 to the end of his life. In 1908,
Airs. Hay privately printed and distributed to friends a small
edition of filter volumes which curry the title-page Letters of
John Hay and Extracts from Diary While the compilation in process,
Mrs. Hay asked fur tin return of many letters of her husbands. In
some instances the originals were returned and are still in the Hay
Papers, Other cor respondents . supplied only copies of originals,
and, In one notable in stance, important letters were entirely
withheld...
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