Tyler Dennett collection relating to John Hay, 1861-1937 (bulk 1899-1937).
- 200 items. 8 containers. 3.2 linear feet.
Open to research.
Correspondence, research notes, galley proofs, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Dennett's books, John Hay: From Poetry to Politics (1933) and Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (1939). Subjects include Hay's service as assistant private secretary to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and as U.S. secretary of state in the William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations. Correspondents include Charles Austin Beard, J. Franklin Jameson, W. Easton Louttit, and Allan Nevins. Also includes original, copy, and print versions of Hay's correspondence with Henry Adams, James A. Garfield, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Historian, editor, and biographer of John Hay (statesman, diplomat, historian, journalist, and poet).
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007069
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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 --Correspondence. Beard, Charles A. 1874-1948 --Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905. Hay, John, 1838-1905 --Correspondence. Garfield, James A. 1831-1881 --Correspondence. Jameson, J. Franklin 1859-1937 --Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Louttit, W. Easton 1904-1973 --Correspondence. McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence.
American poetry.
United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.