Abstract: |
The John Hay
papers microfilm consist of over 9100 items encompassing Hay's correspondence with his
family and with literary, diplomatic, and political contemporaries; diaries kept by Hay
as Lincoln's White House aide and as Secretary of the Legations in Paris, Vienna, and
Madrid, 1866-1870; manuscript poems; galley proofs; personal letterpress copy books.
Subjects include: Civil War; Lincoln and his administration; Reconstruction; court life
in Paris; the bi-metal monetary standard; the Canadian boundary settlement; the fur seal
question; Japanese naval activity; Chinese-American relations; the Spanish-American and
Philippine-American Wars; British and American politics. |