Levi, Leo, 467

Lexington, Ky., 15

Liao-tung Peninsula, 354, 355, 358, 458

Liberal Party, British, 305

Liberal Republican Party, 143, 153–55

Liberals, Colombian, 429, 440–41

Life and Letters of John Hay, The (Thayer), 551

Life of Abraham Lincoln, The (Lamon), 180–82, 235, 236, 250

Lincoln, Abraham, 1–7, 15, 29–106, 143, 177, 296, 297, 335, 496, 552

anti-slavery position of, 32, 54–59, 86–97–99

appearance of, 5, 33, 40, 51, 71, 182

appointments made by, 39, 187

assassination of, 2–5, 102–6, 111, 144, 154, 182, 193, 205, 206, 214, 402, 408, 409, 423

“blind” memorandum of, 90

bodyguard of, 93, 180

campaign biography of, 35, 133

courts-martial reviewed by, 53

doggerel of, 73

domestic problems of, 74, 250

early life of, 36, 181, 182, 213, 235–36, 250

election of 1858 and, 29, 30, 54, 515, 516

election of 1860 and, 2, 32–36, 133, 180, 515

election of 1864 and, 79, 81, 85, 89, 90–94, 97, 130, 153, 180, 525

engagement and marriage of, 36, 181, 236

as father, 1, 2, 5–6, 39–40, 53–54, 102, 236, 263

funeral of, 3, 4, 15

greatness of, 5, 40, 106, 181

habeas corpus suspended by, 153

Hay and Nicolay’s shielding of, 43, 250

Hay compared with, 6, 9, 12, 47, 54, 330, 516, 545, 547

Hay-Nicolay biography of, see Abraham Lincoln

Hay’s correspondence with, 66, 80

in Hay’s dream, 539–40, 543

Hay’s lectures on, 140, 158

Hay’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 50–51, 54, 66, 73, 105–6, 176, 182

Hay’s travels for, 48–49, 65–68, 78–82, 85–90, 374

Hay’s writing letters of, 3, 35–36, 94–96

humanness of, 5, 40, 181, 182

humor of, 1, 5, 51, 52, 61

insanity attributed to, 181, 250

in journey to Washington, 39–41, 44, 86, 154, 180

Lamon’s biography of, 180–82, 235, 236

law practice of, 30, 33, 36, 40, 44

legacy of, 7, 112, 113, 182, 516–17

McKinley compared with, 337, 390

melancholy of, 36, 181, 236

military leadership of, 72

military service of, 53

Napoleon III compared with, 111–12

nicknames of, 1, 50

nocturnal habits of, 5, 47, 51

papers of, 3, 4, 115, 144–45, 176, 294

peace efforts and, 71, 77, 85–88

pragmatism of, 54

problems of, with generals, 47–50, 55–57, 59, 60, 65, 68–69, 72, 238

reading aloud of, 5, 51, 77, 92

reconstruction and, 77–82

renown of, 30, 32–33

Rutledge and, 36, 181, 236, 250

secession and, 39, 44, 77

second inauguration of, 99–101, 396

speeches of, 40, 54, 70–71, 75–77, 84, 93, 94, 98, 99–100

war’s toll on, 1, 71, 100–101

Lincoln, Abraham, II “Jack,” 263

Lincoln, Eddie, 53

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 40, 43, 48, 85, 250

death of, 182, 236

education of, 15

engagement of, 36, 181, 236

Lincoln’s assassination and, 2–5, 102, 103, 104, 182

mental illness of, 182

as mother, 54, 236

profilgacy of, 74

vengefulness and deviousness of, 3, 73–74, 99

Lincoln, Mrs. Robert, 208

Lincoln, Robert, 2–6, 54, 543

Abraham Lincoln and, 235–36, 245–46, 263

in Civil War, 2, 102

education of, 2, 40, 54

father’s assassination and, 5–6, 102, 104

father’s papers and, 3, 4, 115, 144–45, 176

father’s relationship with, 2, 6, 39–40, 102, 236, 263

Hay’s correspondence with, 107–8, 179, 207, 235, 245–46, 263

Hay’s engagement and, 163

Hay’s relationship with, 2, 39, 73

Lamon’s biography and, 182

as minister to England, 258, 261, 269

as secretary of war, 199, 207, 208, 235

Lincoln, Tad, 6, 40, 48

death of, 182

illness of, 53, 54

Lincoln, Thomas, 181, 236

Lincoln, Willie, 40, 48

death of, 1, 5–6, 53–54, 74

Lincoln Memorial, 95

Lippi, Fra Filippo, 457

Lippincott’s, 225

Literary World, 226

literature, 17, 45, 318

see also poetry; specific authors and texts

“Literature vs. Housekeeping” (Clara Stone Hay), 152, 195

“Little Breeches” (Hay), 136–40, 168

Liverpool, 214, 539

Lodge, Anna Cabot Mills “Nannie,” 276, 277, 278, 348, 369, 403, 439

Adams’s correspondence with, 341

background of, 265

Hay’s conjectured romance with, 10, 264–69, 272, 342

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 258–61, 264, 265, 268, 276, 277, 278, 317, 342–43, 349, 374, 389–93, 395, 403, 439

Alaska boundary treaty and, 454–55

education of, 259–60

election of 1896 and, 298, 306

election of 1904 and, 514

foreign policy and, 10, 323, 338, 342, 343, 348, 368–70, 391–93, 396–97, 405, 411, 412, 502, 528

Hay’s correspondence with, 328, 329

Hay’s relationship with, 10, 260, 369, 390

McKinley’s death and, 410

Roosevelt compared with, 259–60

Roosevelt’s correspondence with, 415–17, 421, 546

sense of superiority of, 260

Logan, Stephen, 29, 30

London, 178, 256, 258, 275, 322–26, 332, 363, 398, 405, 411, 451

Buckingham Palace in, 288, 318, 319, 539

Del Hay in, 332, 373, 401

5 Carlton Terrace in, 315–16

Hay in, 11, 108, 116, 119, 177, 180, 214–15, 221–22, 233–34, 251, 257, 261, 269–72, 276, 283, 287–88, 295, 303, 305, 314–24, 326, 332–35, 338, 372, 444, 538–39, 546

Hay’s work reviewed in, 149

St. Paul’s Cathedral in, 318, 320, 382, 383, 544

Sickles in, 121

Tribune foreign bureau in, 132

Long, John, 445

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 133

Longstreet, James, 59

Loomis, Francis, 479, 486, 488–89, 490, 492, 536

Louisiana, 170, 398

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 510–11, 523

Louisville Courier-Journal, 138

“Love and Music” (Hay), 291–92

“Love’s Dawn” (Hay), 264, 265

Lowell, James Russell, 133, 214, 221, 234

Luchow Peninsula, 354

“Luck of Roaring Camp, The” (Harte), 134

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 26–27

Lummis, Charles, 501

Luxembourg, 126

lynchings, 463

Lynn Canal, 347

McClellan, George, 48–51, 69, 83, 193, 247, 262

election of 1864 and, 90–91, 93–94, 98, 153, 525

emancipation and, 56, 62

Hay’s resentment of, 50, 56, 238

hesitation of, 56, 59, 60

Lincoln’s problems with, 49–50, 56, 59, 238

relieved of duty, 62, 65

removed as general in chief, 56

McDowell, Irvin, 47–48

McKimm, Charles, 437

McKinley, Ida, 298, 335, 399–400, 406

McKinley, William, 7–8, 258, 281–83, 296–315, 323–26, 333–42, 361, 368–72, 389–91, 395–402, 405–11, 419–23, 455, 524, 532

appointments made by, 304, 308–14, 333–34, 348–50

assassination of, 8, 400, 406–11, 428

in Canton, 305–7, 380, 395, 405, 408, 411

character of, 297–300

China policy and, 354, 356, 357, 358, 386

debt of, 7, 282–83, 298, 299

Diamond Jubilee and, 318–19, 320

election of 1896 and, 282, 296–308, 317, 389

election of 1900 and, 368, 369, 374–76, 389–90, 428

Garfield compared with, 313, 408–9

Hanna’s relationship with, 282, 299–300, 307, 309, 310, 427

Hay compared with, 297, 421

Hay’s correspondence with, 304, 310–11, 313, 317, 319, 320, 323–24, 333–34, 338, 370–71, 403

Hay’s gift to, 311, 396, 531

Hay’s Jackson speech and, 517–18

Hay’s meetings with, 307, 352

Hay’s memorial to, 422–23

Hay’s relationship with, 337, 419

Hay’s resignation rejected by, 370–71, 396

Hay’s trip with, 397–400

Lincoln compared with, 337, 390

Roosevelt compared with, 419

second inauguration of, 396

Spanish-American War and, 8, 323, 324–25, 331–32, 339, 340

tariffs and, 280, 281, 300–301, 303, 306, 308, 338, 406

as twentieth-century candidate, 308

“McKinley grip, the,” 406

McKinley Tariff Act, 280, 281

MacVeagh, Wayne, 76, 304, 500

Madison, Dolley, 247

Madison, James, 177, 248, 260

Madrid, 190

Hay in, 6, 121–25, 129, 308, 323

Maine, USS, 325, 326

Malmros, Oscar, 490, 491, 492

Managua, Lake, 434

Manassas, Va., 47

Manchuria, 355, 539

Japan and, 365, 459, 482, 499–500, 505, 506–7, 521, 522, 532–33

Kishinev massacre and, 462, 464–67

Russia and, 353, 358, 362, 365, 381, 386, 388, 389, 401, 458–62, 464–68, 482, 499–500, 505–7, 521, 522, 532–33, 549

U.S. privileges in, 482

manifest destiny, 338, 517

Manila, 328, 330, 339, 343, 345

Dewey at, 327, 328, 331, 444, 459

German navy near, 327, 444

Manitou Springs, Colo., 232, 257

Marcy, William, 440

Marines, U.S., 379, 440, 486, 491, 514, 524

Maritime Canal Company, 345–46

Marlborough, Duke of, 539

Marroquín, José Manuel, 429, 430, 436, 441, 442, 443, 470–72, 492–93

Martínez Silva, Carlos, 429–31, 442, 484

Martinique, 433

Maryland, 41, 60, 69

slavery in, 44, 92

Mather, Flora Stone, 151, 155, 163, 174, 186, 231

Clara’s correspondence with, 215

father’s estate and, 223–24

Hay’s correspondence with, 155, 164, 165, 166, 180, 188–89, 290, 360

marriage of, 213

Mather, Samuel, 213, 216, 223–24, 273

Hay’s correspondence with, 214, 287, 522

McKinley’s debt and, 282

Matin, 478

Meade, George, 69–73, 84, 122

Medill, Joseph, 89

Mediterranean squadron, 477

Meléndez, Porfirio, 490, 491

Melville, Herman, 212

Meninas, Las (Velásquez), 123

mental illness, 181, 182, 205, 319

Merrimac, 72

Methodists, 29, 339, 378

Metternich, Paul, 452

Mexico, 109, 126, 208, 255–56, 528

Michigan, 93, 515–19

Milburn, John, 407

Miles, Nelson, 289

Miller, Henry, 458, 459

Millet, Francis, 251

Mills, Anna Cabot, see Lodge, Anna Cabot Mills “Nannie”

Mills, Darius Ogden, 199, 313, 320

Mills, Elisabeth, see Reid, Elisabeth Mills

Milton, John, 17, 28

mining, 208, 353, 399, 424, 446

missionaries, 354, 377–78, 380–82, 521

Mississippi, 398, 438

Mississippi River, 17–18, 21, 44, 69, 112, 132, 135

in St. Louis speech, 510–11

slavery and, 24, 30, 515

Missouri, 19, 20, 22, 48, 93

Missouri Compromise, 515

Missouri Democrat, 34–35, 39

Missouri Republican, 50

Mitchell, S. Weir, 178–80, 232, 285, 403

Mobile, Ala., 102

Moltke, Helmuth von, 127

Momotombo, 434

Monarchy (King’s proposed novel), 228

Money-Makers, The (Keenan), 228–32

Monitor, 72

Monocacy, USS, 379

Monroe, James, 445

Monroe Doctrine, 109, 191, 301, 305, 323, 366

in Hay’s speeches, 420, 421, 436

Roosevelt and, 445–46, 447, 451, 453, 529

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Adams), 374

Moody, William, 445, 490, 509

Moore, John Bassett, 474, 478, 498

morality, 18, 20, 107–8, 397, 548

Ashtabula disaster and, 174

Tribune and, 86, 131, 155

U.S. foreign policy and, 330–31, 338, 339, 505

Moran, Thomas, 290

Morgan, Edwin, 97

Morgan, John Tyler, 348, 366–67, 392, 393, 432–36

Bunau-Varilla’s letter to, 495

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty and, 494–95, 501

Hay-Herrán Treaty and, 442, 443

Nicaraguan canal favored by, 345–46, 427, 428, 432–35, 494

Morgan, J. Pierpont, 427

Morgan bill, 345–46

Morison, George, 425–26

“Mormon Prophet’s Tragedy, The” (Hay), 21–22, 121, 122, 134

Mormons, 20–22

Hay’s article on, 21–22, 121, 122, 134

Morocco, 511–15

Morton, Levi, 199, 280, 296, 300

Motley, John Lothrop, 113, 116, 117

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (King), 153, 216

Mugwumps, 8, 234, 235

Mukden, 355, 458, 466, 482, 533

Muraviev, Nikolai, 362, 363

murder, 121, 379, 386

of Mormons, 21–22, 121

Murger, Henri, 109

Murphy, Grayson, 485

“Mystery of Gilgal, The” (Hay), 140

Nahant, Mass., 261, 268, 278

Nanshan, Battle of, 512

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 48, 94, 108, 276

Napoleon III, Emperor of France (Louis Napoleon), 108–9, 111–12, 120, 125–32, 185

Nasby, Petroleum V., 92

Nashville, USS, 486–87, 490–91

Nast, Thomas, 154

Nation, 167–68, 190, 225, 250

National Association of Manufacturers, 354

National Bank of El Paso, 285

National Gallery, 116

nationalism, 119, 328

National Nominating Convention, 81

Nauvoo, Ill., 20, 21

Navy, U.S., 65–68, 72, 379, 521

Germany vs., 443, 444

Panama and, 440–41, 480, 485–88, 490

Spanish-American War and, 325–28, 330, 331, 345, 444

Tangier situation and, 512, 513–14

Venezuela troubles and, 443, 448–52

Nervi, 535–36

neurology, 178–79, 216

Newbury, N.H., 249, 267, 272, 383, 407, 439, 542

Newchwang, 355, 381, 458, 459

Newfoundland, 527–28

New Hampshire, 407

Hay’s retreat in, see Fells, the

Hay’s search for property in, 239, 249

Nicolay-Gilder meeting in, 237

New Haven, Conn., 402–3, 412

New Haven House, 402

New Jersey shore, 207–8

Newport, R.I., 464, 541

New Salem, Ill., 181

New York, 121, 234

legislature of, 203, 206–7

patronage and, 199, 201, 202, 296

New York, N.Y., 88, 129–44, 147–55, 164–67, 199–212, 259, 295, 354, 427

Amador and Boyd in, 496, 497

art auctioned in, 171

Beers in, 475

book sales in, 228, 231

Bunau-Varilla in, 478, 481, 492

Carnegie Hall speech in, 524, 525

Civil War and, 71, 98

Clara’s visits to, 150–53, 160, 208–9, 401, 550

clubs in, 131, 132, 147, 149, 163, 167, 208, 217, 250–51, 255

corruption in, 131, 199

customs collector in, 199, 201, 203, 204

Delmonico’s in, 147, 209, 273, 419–21, 534

Duque in, 476

Hay as editorialist in, 6, 7, 133, 141–44, 153–54, 155, 159–60, 166, 228, 323

Hay’s apartment in, 164

Hay’s departure from, 166

Hay’s visits to, 87, 113, 115, 129–32, 222–23, 242, 258, 271, 351, 419–21, 448, 524, 525, 530, 534, 540, 541

King in, 10, 147, 148, 208–10, 242, 249, 255, 285–86, 303

Lizzie Cameron in, 350–51

mansions in, 157, 167, 422

political bosses and rings in, 141, 142, 154, 159, 170, 184

Reid’s house in, 200

social life in, 147, 209

Waldorf Astoria in, 478, 481

New York Evening Star, 12

New York Evening Sun, 503

New York Herald, 81, 131, 144, 410, 473, 475

New York Independent, 544–45

New York Journal, 299, 316, 324, 325

New York Post, 366

New York Stock Exchange, 163, 283

New York Sun, 131, 155, 368, 433–34, 486, 546

New York Times, 69, 90, 131, 486–87

New York Tribune, 130–34, 136–47, 193, 199–200, 229, 262, 312, 319, 423

Civil War and, 47, 85, 87, 131

Conkling and, 199, 200, 202–8

daily readership of, 131

election of 1876 and, 171

election of 1896 and, 297, 306

foreign affairs in, 131–32, 141–42, 168, 385

Garfield’s assassination and, 205–7

Gould’s rescue of, 158–59

Grant criticized in, 153–54, 199

Hay’s poetry in, 136–39

Hay’s rejection of editor’s post at, 263–64

Hay’s temporary replacement of Reid at, 200, 202–8, 297, 541

Hay’s work for, 6, 7, 50, 89–90, 136–46, 153–54, 155, 159–60, 164, 166, 167, 228, 323

as Liberal Republican paper, 143, 153–54, 155

literary reviews in, 210–12

offices of, 141, 162, 166

Open Door and, 366

Reid’s homecoming to, 208

slavery and, 61, 86

stock of, 149, 158, 159, 200

New York World, 47, 49, 427, 428, 472, 476

Niagara Falls, N.Y., 85–88, 130, 133, 153, 400, 406

Niagara Manifesto, 87–90

Nicaragua, 301, 349, 352, 368, 487

canal cost for, 412

Hay’s treaty negotiations with, 432, 442

Hepburn bill and, 413, 421, 427

Morgan bill ad, 345–46

Panama vs., 191, 366, 392, 411, 412, 425–35, 470, 471, 473–74, 498

as “the American route,” 345, 425

volcanoes in, 427, 433–34, 435

Nicaragua, Lake, 434

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 462, 466, 508

Nicolay, John George, 1–7, 31–32, 118, 133, 176, 180–83, 186

background of, 23

Colorado trip of, 232, 239, 249, 257

as consul to Paris, 4, 101, 108, 109, 110, 113, 115, 125

death of, 411

election of 1864 and, 90–91

as German-born, 3, 23, 32, 43

Hay compared with, 3, 32

Hay’s correspondence with, 67, 68, 71–72, 73, 82, 90, 114, 115, 117, 120, 132, 133, 137, 152, 160, 169, 178, 183, 213, 238, 251, 257–58, 262, 383

Hay’s engagement and, 163

Hay’s evolving relationship with, 169

Hay’s job offer from, 125, 130, 132

Hay’s meeting of, 23

Hay’s renewed friendship with, 31

interviews for Lincoln biography by, 167, 169, 235

Lamon’s biography and, 180–82

as Lincoln’s private secretary, 1–4, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42–43, 45, 46, 50–54, 61, 65, 66, 71–76, 83–85, 97–102, 144, 169, 198, 245, 335–36

marriage of, 4, 99, 101

in New Hampshire, 237

White House duties of, 45

at work on Lincoln biography, 167, 169, 213, 228, 235–39, 245, 248–51, 260, 262–63, 294

Nicolay, Therena Bates, 66, 120

death of, 245, 249

European travels of, 5, 101, 107, 109, 110

marriage of, 4, 99, 101

Nicolay’s correspondence with, 4, 43, 53–54, 65, 84, 97

Norris, Billy, 24

North, 57, 60, 71, 88, 100, 158, 193

North American Review, 177, 340

Northern Pacific Railroad, 163, 289

Northern Securities, 424

North German Confederation, 126

“Northward” (Hay), 140

Oak Ridge Cemetery, 4

Obaldía, José Domingo de, 478, 485, 487, 489

“Obedience” (Hay), 292

Ohio, 19, 92, 133, 309–10, 361

founding fathers of, 183

legislature of, 173

McKinley as governor of, 281, 282, 298

Republican Central Committee of, 192

Ohio Republican Party, 300

Ohio Society of New York, 456

oil, 156–57, 354, 422, 458

O’Leary, Mr. and Mrs., 145

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 296

Olney, Richard, 289, 304–5, 317, 318, 326

Olustee, Fla., 81–82

“On the Bluff” (Hay), 18, 140

Open Door, 9, 12, 356–67, 376, 384–90, 393, 398, 406, 421, 458–60, 505, 506, 517, 547

benefits of, 364–65

Beresford and, 356–57, 359

first note, 360, 381, 507

negotiations over, 362–66

second note, 380–81

Orange Free State, 362

orange groves, 67–68, 79

Organization of American States, 349

Orinoco (Royal Mail Company packet), 491

Osgood, James R., 132, 140, 148, 214

Ottoman Empire, 496, 521

“Outcasts of Poker Flat” (Harte), 134

Outlook, 453–54

Overland Monthly, 134, 135, 136, 148

Oyster Bay, Long Island, 261, 437–38, 465–66, 473, 477

Pacific Express, 171–72

Pacific Ocean, 9, 337, 344, 352–53, 356

McKinley and Hay in visit to, 399

Panama and, 430, 477, 485, 490

Pago Pago, 353

Panama, 346, 349, 366, 411, 425–33, 440–43, 468–82, 484–503, 517, 524

canal cost for, 392, 412, 425

flag of, 485, 489, 497

French canal company and, 190–91, 345, 425

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty and, 494–503

indemnity for, 495, 497, 503

secession and independence of, 9, 429, 468–69, 471, 473, 475–82, 484–94, 497–502, 528–29, 549

U.S. as protector of, 493, 494, 497

U.S. recognition of, 493

Panama City, 430, 440, 477, 485, 487–92, 494, 495

Panama Railroad, 440, 441, 475, 476, 487, 488, 489, 491

Panama Star and Herald, 476, 477

Pan-American Exposition, 400, 406

Panic of 1873, 163–64, 174

Panic of 1893, 281–85, 289, 300, 345

Paris, 108–16, 126–29, 177, 286, 326, 335, 341, 350, 363, 380, 398, 537

Adams–Lizzie Cameron meetings in, 272, 274–75, 276, 551

Guiteau’s seeking of consulship in, 204–5

Hay in legation in, 4, 101–2, 106, 109–13, 119, 122, 129, 151

Hay’s visits to, 11, 128, 215–16, 221, 234, 269–70, 284, 287, 304, 538, 546

James’s letters from, 168

as literary setting, 110, 115, 140, 402

peace commission in, 335, 339, 340

pleasures of, 110–11

Prussian siege on, 128

riots in, 126, 127

Tribune coverage of, 132

U.S. canal commission in, 426

Paris, Treaty of (1898), 334, 340, 341, 343–44, 350

Parker, Alton B., 509–10, 524, 526

Parkman, Francis, 241

Parsons, Alfred, 234

patronage, 95, 98, 120, 121, 204–5, 258, 294, 296, 309

Conkling and, 199, 201, 202

David Cameron and, 187, 188

Mary Lincoln and, 74

White House seekers of, 43, 74, 113

Paúl, Felipe, 441

Paunceforte, Julian, 335, 352, 367, 405, 411, 412, 424, 455

Pavey, Frank, 495

Payne, Oliver, 422, 505

Payson, Joan Whitney, 458, 464, 505, 523, 550

Pearl Harbor, 507

Peiho River, 355, 379

Peking, 326, 355, 357, 359, 377–88, 421, 460, 482, 522, 524

first relief expedition for, 379, 380

second relief expedition for, 383–88, 401

Pelée, Mount, 433

Pendleton, George, 98

Peninsula campaign, 56, 58, 59, 92

Pennsylvania, 69–70, 187, 252, 278, 280, 298–99

Cameron’s property in, 319, 350, 404

Perdicaris, Ion, 511–15

Permanent Court of Arbitration, 453, 528

Perry, Nora, 27, 28, 29, 38

Petersburg, Fla., 84, 91

Petropavlosk (Russian ship), 506

Philadelphia, Pa., 69, 84, 178–79, 231

Republican convention in (1900), 374–76

Philadelphia Press, 76, 366

Philermenian literary society, 25

Philip IV, King of Spain, 123

Philippines, 9, 322, 326, 330, 338–41, 358, 361, 373, 518, 524

China policy and, 349, 354, 356, 379, 390

Germany and, 327–28, 331, 339, 444

independence movement in, 331, 343–44

insurrection in, 344, 362, 390, 400, 518

Open Door and, 365

Roosevelt’s views on, 436, 444

Treaty of Paris and, 340, 343–44

undecided fate of, 331–32

U.S. brutality in, 424

Phillips, William “Bilfilips,” 289, 297, 315

Phoenix, Ariz., 398, 399, 412, 413

photographs, 74–75

by Clover Adams, 215, 241

of Hay, 46–47, 74–75, 215, 493

Pickett, George E., 70, 71

Pickett’s Charge, 70

Pike County, Ill., 135–36

Pike County, Mo., 135, 148

Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (Hay), 140

Pike County Free Press, 23, 31–32

“Pikes,” 135–37, 148

Pittsburgh, Pa., 174, 545

Pittsfield, Ill., 4, 22–23, 383

Pittsfield, Mass, 438–39, 525

“Plain Language from Truthful James” (“The Heathen Chinee”; Harte), 134–36

Platt, Thomas “Me-Too,” 201, 203, 204, 205, 298, 349, 395

election of 1896 and, 296, 300, 303

election of 1900 and, 374, 375

McKinley appointments and, 309, 310, 312, 313–14

Reid’s feud with, 309, 310, 313–14

Poe, Edgar Allan, 27, 133

poetry, 17, 27–30, 134–40, 145

of Harte, 134–36, 139, 140

of Hay, 3, 6–7, 18, 27–30, 33, 45, 73, 82, 95, 110–11, 136–41, 264–67, 284, 291–92, 504, 541, 551–52

Polk, James Knox, 439

Pope, John, 59, 238

Populists, Populist Party, 280, 308

Port Arthur, 354, 355, 362, 458

Russo-Japanese War and, 506–7, 508, 521, 532–33

Porter, David, 96–97

Porter, Fitz-John, 262

Porter, Jane, 17, 18

Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 211–12, 228, 286

portrait painting, 234, 265, 324, 456–58, 504, 539

Potomac River, 41

Civil War and, 44, 47, 49, 60, 71, 84, 85

Prado, 123

“Prayer for Twenty Millions” (Greeley), 86

preparedness policy, 524

Presbyterians, 157, 164–65, 195, 422, 545

Prescott, Herbert, 485–86

presidential succession, order of, 411, 437, 439

Prince and the Pauper, The (Twain), 210–11

Pritchett, Henry, 494–95

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 77–78

see also Ten Percent Plan

“Progress of Democracy in Europe, The” (Hay), 120, 140, 141

prostitutes, 121

Protestants, 377

see also specific sects

Providence, R.I., 15, 24–28, 33

Providence Journal, 33–34

Prussia, 117, 120

see also Franco-Prussian War

Puerto Cabello, 447, 451

Puerto Rico, 322, 330, 331, 340, 343, 361, 445

Pullman, George, 282

Pullman Palace Car Company, 289

Qing government, 354

Quay, Matthew, 298–99, 300, 303, 395

railroads, 156, 157, 163, 164, 171–75, 220, 249, 422, 446

Ashtabula disaster, 171–75, 220

China and, 353, 354, 355, 360, 362, 363, 365, 377, 458

Christmas travel on, 186

failure of, 281–82

labor unrest and, 174–75

in Panama, 440, 441, 475, 487, 488, 489, 491

stock in, 155, 156, 159, 174

Raisuli, Muali Ahmed er, 511–15

Rapadan River, 83, 84

Rappahannock River, 68–69

Rathbone, Henry, 103–4, 247–48

Raymond, Henry, 90

Reade (Hay children’s nurse), 214

reconstruction, 72, 77–82, 93, 107

Grant and, 153

Johnson administration and, 112, 113, 122

Ten Percent Plan, 78–82

Reed, Thomas, 258, 296, 300

reform, 131, 170, 184, 196, 218, 259

Reid, Elisabeth Mills, 199–200, 281, 296, 312, 320, 321, 405, 439

Reid, Whitelaw, 130–34, 141, 143, 144, 147, 154, 162, 168–71, 176, 321, 541

as ambassador to England, 530

bachelor life of, 149

Conkling and, 199, 201–4

Diamond Jubilee and, 319, 320

election of 1876 and, 171

election of 1880 and, 192, 193, 194

election of 1888 and, 257

election of 1892 and, 280, 281, 296

election of 1896 and, 296, 298, 306–7

in fiction, 229

Hay compared with, 131

Hay’s acceptance of State Department position and, 184

Hay’s correspondence with, 132, 146, 164, 166, 169–70, 171, 183–84, 194, 198, 201–4, 206, 207, 208, 211, 212, 273, 280, 284, 288, 294, 295–96, 306–7, 309, 312, 319, 335, 385, 404–5, 413, 439, 468, 530

Hay’s damaged friendship with, 350

health problems of, 297, 311–12, 314

James hired by, 168

McKinley appointments and, 309–14, 348, 349–50

marriage of, 199–200

as minister to France, 258, 261, 264, 269, 296

as peace commissioner, 335, 348

Tribune troubles of, 158–59

Twain’s damning of, 210–11

as Washington correspondent, 130

Republican, 125, 130, 132

Republican National Committee, 428

Republican National Conventions:

of 1856, 31–32

of 1864, 79, 84

of 1880, 192, 199

of 1896, 296, 300, 301, 310

of 1900, 374–76

of 1904, 514–15

Republicans, Republican Party, 5, 6, 7, 12, 26, 38, 101, 111–12, 119, 120, 176, 183, 191–94, 264, 340, 342, 346, 349, 361, 494, 528

birth of, 86, 515–16

Conkling vs. Garfield and, 201, 202

emancipation and, 62, 64

in fiction, 196

as futurists, 548

Grant criticized by, 142–43

Illinois state convention of (1858), 54

Mugwumps, 8, 234, 235, 280, 281, 304, 500, 517

Radical wing of, 50, 54, 62, 77, 93, 112, 113

Stalwarts, 192, 204–7, 408

Tribune’s loss of, 158

see also specific elections

Rest Cure, 179–80, 213, 220, 285

Review of Reviews, 479, 480

Reyes, Rafael, 497, 500–501

Rhine River, 126, 128

Rhodes, Cecil, 372

Richardson, H. H., 233, 239, 241, 243–44

Richmond, Va., 56, 83, 84, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 96, 102

Rico, Luis Carlos, 471, 478

Ridgley, Mary, see Hay, Mary Ridgley

Rixey, Presley, 532, 534, 535, 541–42

Robertson, William, 199, 201, 203, 204

Rock Creek Cemetery, 484

Rockefeller, John D., 156, 403

Rockhill, William, 326, 336, 349

China policy and, 354, 356–60, 362, 363, 377, 381, 384, 388, 400–401, 482, 530

Roderick Hudson (James), 168

Romanian Jews, 462

Rome, 286–87, 290, 363, 380, 394, 530

Roosevelt, Anna, see Cowles, Anna Roosevelt “Bamie”

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, 534

Roosevelt, Corrine, 265

Roosevelt, Edith, 276, 412, 422, 440, 456

Roosevelt, Franklin, 534

Roosevelt, Ted, 501, 508

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 12, 176, 258–61, 264, 276, 289, 326, 342, 407–12

Adams’s criticism of, 417–18, 424

aggressiveness of, 508, 519, 521

appetite for executive control of, 419

as assistant secretary of the navy, 323, 330, 445

autobiography of, 452–53

Central America canal and, 368, 410, 425, 426, 428, 435–36, 442, 443, 445, 472–80, 501, 503

as child, 8, 259, 444, 445

as civil service commissioner, 259

dynamism and robustness of, 259, 416, 417

election of 1896 and, 302, 306, 307

election of 1900 and, 374–76, 389–90

election of 1904 and, 509–11, 514–19, 523–26, 546

Germany and, 443–54

Hanna’s relationship with, 428

Hay compared with, 8–9, 416, 417, 419, 420, 457, 503, 548

Hay’s correspondence with, 308, 330–31, 408–12, 414, 417, 438, 447, 455–56, 459, 460–61, 466, 467–68, 468, 473–75, 477, 504, 505, 513, 520, 521–22, 526–27, 531–32, 536, 540, 541, 542

Hay’s death and, 543, 545–48

Hay’s gift to, 531–32

Hay’s relationship with, 390, 409–11, 414–19, 455–56, 465, 525, 545–48

health problems and accidents of, 438–40, 499, 524–25

honorary degree of, 436

hunting of, 438, 465, 536

inauguration of, 531–32

James introduced to, 531

Japan bias of, 508

Kishinev massacre and, 463–67

Lodge compared with, 259–60

McKinley compared with, 419

McKinley’s assassination and, 407–11

as N.Y. governor, 338, 368, 374

Panama’s independence and, 484–85, 487, 490, 492, 493–94, 498–99

portrait of, 456–57

as president, 8, 414–27, 435–57, 463–69, 472–80, 482, 484–85, 487, 490, 492, 493–94, 498–99, 501, 503–6, 508–34, 540–43, 545–46, 549

Russo-Japanese War mediated by, 540–41, 549

at Sagamore Hill, 437–38, 464–65, 477

Spanish-American War and, 323, 330–31, 338

Venezuela affair and, 443, 446–54

as vice president, 407–8, 445

Wilhelm II compared with, 445

writing of, 259, 260, 452–53

Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 258–59, 418

Root, Elihu, 372, 375, 385, 410, 412, 424, 440, 490, 493, 496

Alaska boundary treaty and, 454–55

replacement of, 518

as secretary of state, 13, 549

Rothschild, Baron Ferdinand James de, 462

Roughing It (Twain), 210–11

Rough Riders, 330, 338, 375

Royal Academy, 539

Ruskin, John, 284

Russia, 9, 141, 142, 327, 346, 458–68

anti-Semitism in, 461–67, 505

army of, 533

Bloody Sunday in, 533

China and, 353–54, 355, 358–60, 362–63, 365, 378, 380, 381, 383, 385–89, 401, 458–62, 464–68, 482, 499–500, 505–7, 521–22, 549

Foreign Ministry of, 466

navy of, 459, 506, 521, 522, 533, 540

Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), 365, 505–9, 512, 521–22, 532–34

Roosevelt’s mediation in, 540–41, 549

Rutledge, Ann, 36, 181, 236, 250

Sagamore Hill, 437–38, 464–65, 477

St. Augustine, Fla., 67–68, 80–81

St. Croix, 372, 422

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 250–51, 439, 483–84, 504, 520, 531

St. Helena, 277

St. John, 372, 422

St. Louis, Mo., 34, 48–49, 523

Hay’s speech in, 510–11

Republican Convention in (1896), 296, 300, 301

St. Petersburg, 362, 363, 380, 453, 462, 508

Bloody Sunday in, 533

St. Pierre, 433

St. Thomas, 372, 422

Salem, Ind., 15–17, 19

Salisbury, Lord, 305, 323, 347, 348, 352, 373, 391

Samoa, 327, 328, 352, 353, 517

Sanclemente, Manuel Antonio, 429

Sandburg, Carl, 95

Sanders, George, 87–88

San Francisco, Cal., 399–400

Sangamon County, Ill., 15, 33

Santo Domingo, 143, 528–29, 540

Saratoga, N.Y., 166

Sargent, John Singer, 234, 265, 303, 324, 456–58, 504, 539

Saturday Club, 133, 134

Saturday Evening Post, 260

Saturday Review, 226

Savannah, Ga., 67, 91, 97

Scammon, J. Young, 145

Schiff, Jacob, 462–63

Schurman, Jacob, 358

Schurz, Carl, 143, 340

Scotland, 261, 280, 283, 393

Clarks in, 214, 221, 251, 284, 288

Scott, Sir Walter, 145, 318

Scott, Winfield, 49

Scribner’s, 267

Scudder, Charles S., 542

sculpture, 483–84, 504, 520

Sears, Barnas, 25

secession, 39, 44, 77, 98

Sedan, 127

Senate, U.S., 97, 114, 119, 158, 196, 260, 391–94, 515, 527–30, 550

appointment approval and, 113, 201, 203

Camerons in, 187

canals committee of, see Interoceanic Canals Committee

Central America canal and, 345–46, 366–71, 383, 391–93, 396–97, 425–28, 432–36, 472

Choate’s run for, 349

election of 1858 and, 29, 30, 93

Foreign Relations Committee of, 338, 342, 368–70, 472

Hepburn bill and, 425–26, 428, 431

N.Y. legislature’s selection for, 207

Ohio seats for, 258, 309–10

Platt’s withdrawal as candidate for, 204

resignations from, 203, 205

Santo Domingo and, 528–29, 540

treaties and, 343, 344, 366–71, 383, 391–93, 396–97, 411, 412, 421–22, 432, 441, 442, 454–55, 494–95, 498, 500–503, 527–29

Sergei, Grand Duke of Russia, 533

Seward, Frederick, 176, 184

Seward, William, 49–50, 108, 184, 185

Alabama claims and, 142

assassination attempt against, 2, 104, 248

death of, 176

emancipation and, 56–57, 59, 62

in Gettysburg, 75–76

Hay’s admiration for, 101–2, 113

Hay’s correspondence with, 101–2, 114, 118–19

Hay’s job seeking and, 101, 113–14, 116, 119–20, 121

Seymour, Truman, 81

Shakespeare, William, 51, 52, 73

Shaler, James, 487–91

Shanghai, 353, 355, 379, 521, 522

Shantung Province, 377

Shasta, Mount, 148

Shaw, Albert, 479, 480

Shaw, Leslie, 496, 509

Shaw, Robert Gould, 78

Shaw Memorial (Saint-Gaudens), 483–84

“Shelby Cabell” (Hay), 115

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 411

Shenandoah Valley, 91

Sheridan, Philip, 91

Sherman, Cecilia, 187

Sherman, Charles Taylor, 187, 188

Sherman, John, 11, 187, 192, 252, 258, 310, 340

as secretary of state, 310, 312, 318, 326, 332, 338

Sherman, Lizzie, see Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman “Lizzie”

Sherman, Mrs. Charles, 188, 291

Sherman, Thomas, 65

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 11, 185, 187, 484

in Civil War, 64, 68, 83, 91–92

Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 280

Shiloh, Tenn., 55–56, 130

short stories, 216

of Harte, 134

of Hay, 18, 110, 115, 125, 140, 225, 228, 402

Siberia, 458

Sickles, Daniel, 121–24, 248, 323

Sickles, Mrs. Daniel, 121, 248

silver, 301, 302, 304

silverites, 301, 302, 317

Silver Spring, Md., 85

Sinclair, Samuel, 158

slavery, slaves, 14, 16, 54–59, 61, 86, 154, 515

army’s recruitment of, 78

border states and, 48, 54, 56, 59, 62

constitutional amendment for prohibition of, 84, 97–99

debate on, 24, 25, 30

election of 1864 and, 84, 85, 92

Lincoln’s promise of noninterference in, 39

peace talks and, 86–90

runaway, 22, 57

secession and, 39, 44

see also abolitionists, abolition; emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation

Slocomb, A. H., 513

Smalley, George, 131, 132, 234, 269, 423, 424, 465, 527

on Hay as ambassador, 314–15, 317–18

Smith, Charles Emory, 398

Smith, Hyrum, 21

Smith, Joseph, 20–21, 121

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 550

Soldiers’ Home, 5, 51, 52, 73, 85

Solomon Islands, 353

South, 57, 60, 71, 77, 88, 100, 193

emancipation and, 59, 64

Grant administration and, 153

Johnson administration and, 112, 113

secession in, 39, 44, 77

see also Confederacy; Confederate Army

South Africa, 9, 317

Boer War in, 353, 361–62, 367, 372–74, 401, 424

Del Hay in, 373–74, 391, 401, 403

South America, 349, 400, 443, 445, 446

South Atlantic Squadron, 512

South Carolina, 170, 422

Camerons in, 277, 278, 291, 293

forts in, 39, 65, 66, 68, 78–79

Hay in, 65–68, 72, 78–79, 277, 523

Spain, 8, 121–25, 133, 141, 284, 322–32, 339

Cuba and, 122, 123–24, 141, 294, 322, 323, 326–27, 340

Hohenzollern dynasty in, 127

navy of, 459

Spanish-American War, 8, 322–35, 338–41, 354, 364, 375, 444, 518, 524

end of, 329–30, 337

Maine and, 325, 326

peace commissioners and, 332–35, 339, 340

transportation issues in, 345

treaty in, 334, 340, 341, 343–44, 350

spas, 179, 532, 536–39, 546

Spectator, 451

speculation, 17

financial, 163

land, 15, 16, 68, 79, 82, 112, 116

“spheres of influence” (spheres of interest), 9, 353–54, 356–60, 362, 363, 365, 381

in Caribbean, 446

use of term, 327, 360

spoils system, 7, 131, 192, 259

Spooner, John, 425–26, 472, 592

Spooner Act, 436, 442, 473, 474, 498

Spooner amendment, 425–26, 428, 430, 431, 434, 435

Spotsylvania, Battle of (1864), 83

Sprague, Kate, 189

Springfield, Ill., 15, 17, 22, 29–37, 39, 44, 57, 68, 516

Hay’s education in, 23–24

Hay’s returns to, 4, 99, 107, 120–21, 167

Lincoln’s body in, 4, 15, 408

Republican state convention in (1858), 54

social life in, 31, 32

Springfield Republic, 226

Spring-Rice, Cecil, 417, 539

Standard Oil, 156–57, 302, 422

Standing Lincoln (Saint-Gaudens), 483

Stanton, Edwin, Jr., 76

Stanton, Edwin, Sr., 2, 52, 69, 85, 92, 105, 107

attempted firing of, 119

emancipation and, 59, 61–62

Stanton, Theodore, 327

State Department, U.S., 119, 184–86, 188–91, 194–98, 332, 344–542

Alaska-Canada border and, 9, 346–49, 352, 367, 393, 423–25

anti-Semitism and, 117, 461–67

authors honored with overseas assignments by, 190

Central America canal and, 344–49, 366–71, 383, 391–93, 400, 405, 410–13, 421, 423–36, 440–43, 468–82, 484, 493–503

China policy and, 349, 352–66, 376–90, 458–62, 464–68, 477, 530

Diplomatic Bureau of, 125, 185

dress recommended by, 316

employees of, 185, 336

Guiteau’s visits to, 204–5

Hay’s attempts to resign from, 370–71, 395, 417

Hay’s managerial problems and, 336–37

Hay’s salary from, 315

Hay’s satisfactions at, 189–90

Lodge’s relations with, 342

McKinley appointments to, 304, 308–14

Rockhill and, 326

Russo-Japanese War and, 505–9, 512, 521–22, 532–34, 540–41, 549

Santo Domingo and, 528–29, 540

Tangier situation and, 511–15

Venezuela and, 443, 446–54

steamboats, 17, 18

steel, 220, 280, 354, 422

Sternburg, Speck von, 448–49, 451, 453

Stickney, Lyman, 79–82

Stifler, Dr., 535–36

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 139

Stoddard, William, 46, 52, 53, 61, 94, 237, 336

Stoker, Bram, 303, 403

Stone, Adelbert, 156, 165, 169, 220, 223, 403, 405

Stone, Amasa, 7, 110, 152, 155–58, 162–67, 213, 219

Ashtabula disaster and, 172–74, 220, 230

business career of, 156–57

in fiction, 230–32

Hay’s attending to business affairs of, 174–75

Hay’s correspondence with, 175, 220–22

Hay’s engagement and marriage and, 162, 163, 164

Hay’s relationship with, 164–67

health problems and death of, 220–24, 232, 288, 402, 403

Panic of 1873 and, 163–64

philanthropy of, 220, 422

as Presbyterian, 157, 164–65

Stone, Andros, 110, 151, 156, 160, 219

Stone, Clara Louise, see Hay, Clara Stone

Stone, Flora, see Mather, Flora Stone

Stone, Julia, 152, 155, 156, 157, 166, 174, 213, 223

Clara’s correspondence with, 215, 251, 315, 320

death of, 395

Hay’s correspondence with, 217

Money-Makers and, 231, 232

Stone, Mrs. Andros, 101, 151, 160, 163

Stone family, 228–32

Strachey, John St. Loe, 448–49, 451, 539, 548

Straus, Oscar, 462

Strauss, Johann, 117, 152

strikes, 219, 280, 289, 299, 300, 424, 440

railroad, 174–75

Stuart, J. E. B., 59

Suez Canal, 190, 344–45, 357

Sumner, Charles, 97, 104

Sunapee, Lake, 239, 249, 256–57, 267, 272–74, 278, 295, 352

launch for, 273–74

“Sunrise in the Place de la Concorde” (Hay), 140

Supreme Court, U.S., 114

Dred Scott decision of, 57–58

Nicolay as marshal of, 160, 169

Surrenden Dering, 333–34

Sweden, 114, 409

Symington, Evelyn Wadsworth, 465, 523, 550

Symington, James, 550

Symington, Stuart, 550

Syracuse Standard, 146

Taft, William Howard, 518, 536

Taiwan, 353, 355

Takahira, Kogoro, 505–9, 512, 533

Taku forts, 379

Talienwan, 354

Tammany Hall, 142, 159

Tangier, 511–15

tariffs, 258, 280, 281, 338, 406

China and, 353, 357, 359, 360, 363, 365, 460

election of 1896 and, 294, 300–301, 303, 306, 308

Ta-tung-kou, 466

Taylor, Benjamin, 248

telegraph, 70, 85, 92, 144, 156, 336, 383, 407, 431

Ten Percent Plan, 78–82

territories, slavery in, 54, 55

Teutonic, 303

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 25

Thaddeus of Warsaw (Porter), 17, 18

Thayer, William Roscoe, 450, 501, 551

theater:

in New York, 209

in Washington, 2, 45, 51, 75, 102–5, 248, 268

Theta Delta Chi, 25, 53

Thirteenth Amendment, 97–99

Thomasville, Ga., 505

Thucydides, 238

Tibet, 326

Tientsin, 355, 377, 379, 380, 383

Tilden, Samuel, 170

Tillypronie, 214

Times (London), 303, 314–15, 366

tin, 281, 306

Tiphereth Zion Society, 545

Tirpitz, Alfred von, 536

Todd, Mary, see Lincoln, Mary Todd

Tokyo, 363, 380

Tolstoy, Leo, 533

Tonga, 353

Torres, Eliseo, 490, 491

Tovar, Juan, 487–91

Tower, Charlemagne, 362, 363, 453, 537

Trans-Siberian Railway, 354, 355, 365

Transvaal, 362, 372–74

Trevelyan, George, 288, 534

Trinidad, 446

trolley accident, 438–40

Trumbull, Lyman, 97

Tsarevich (Russian ship), 506

Tsingtao, 353, 355

Tsushima, Strait of, 355, 540

Turgenev, Ivan, 216

Turkey, 521

Turner, George, 454–55

Turner, J.M.W., 116, 284–85, 457

Tutuila, 353

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 340, 403, 412, 532

American Academy of Arts and Letters and, 520, 530

on Hay, 191

Hay’s correspondence with, 138

Hay’s meeting of, 134, 147

hometown of, 19, 135

writing of, 131, 134, 210–11, 212, 214, 228, 262

Tweed, William M. “Boss,” 141, 159

Tweed Ring, 142, 154, 170

“Two on the Terrace” (Hay), 266–67, 541

Tzu Hsi, 376, 384

unemployment, 289, 300

Union, 44, 50, 58, 67–72, 94, 98

benefits of Florida’s return to, 79

emancipation and, 59

flag of, 102, 104

restoration and preservation of, 6, 9, 55, 84, 86–88, 90, 99, 131

setbacks of, 46–49, 55–56, 59–60, 65, 68–69

squandering victory of, 113

Union Iron & Steel Company, 222

Union Pacific Railroad, 196

United Mine Workers, 424

United States:

British relations with, 9, 322–24, 328–29, 338, 346–48, 352–53, 358–62, 386, 539, 548

British tensions with, 304–5, 317, 449, 452, 454

Cuban interests of, 122, 123–24, 301, 317, 322, 323, 325–30, 343, 361

exceptionalism of, 330–31

national unity in, 337

Panama’s independence and, 476–82, 484–94, 497, 498–99, 502, 549

as role model, 142

sea power vision for, 445, 512

territorial expansion of, 322, 326, 327, 331, 338–41, 343–44, 356, 361, 364–65, 517, 529

Usher, John, 75

Vampires Club, 175

Van Buren, Martin, 247

Vanderbilt, William, 167, 427

Velásquez, Diego, 123

Venetian Life (Howells), 133

Venezuela, 304–5, 317, 429, 446–54

arbitration agreement and, 452–53

Castro’s arbitration proposal and, 451, 452

debt of, 446–53

German blockade of, 443, 447–48

Venice, 133, 190, 286–87

Versailles, 128

Vicksburg, Miss., 64, 69, 71, 72–73

Victoria, Queen of England, 121, 221, 222, 251, 287–88, 316–20, 445

death of, 393–94

Diamond Jubilee of, 318–20

Hay’s meetings with, 323–24, 325

Vienna, 204

Hay in, 6, 116–19, 122, 129, 328

Jewish quarter in, 117–18, 462

Stone family in, 152

Villard, Henry, 131

vineyards, 112, 115, 132

Virginia, 104

Civil War and, 44, 47, 56, 58, 59, 68–69, 83–84, 86

Virgin Islands, 422

Vladivostok, 355, 540

volcanoes:

in Martinique, 433

in Nicaragua, 427, 433–34, 435

voting rights, 57, 121

Wade, Jeptha, 156

Wadsworth, Alice Evelyn Hay, 401, 403, 523, 534, 550

birth of, 186

childbirths of, 46, 464, 540

in Colorado, 257

education of, 264, 286, 287

father’s relationship with, 273

foreign travel of, 213, 214, 217, 251, 286, 287, 304, 324, 332, 335

in New Hampshire, 272, 273, 279, 295, 402, 422

wedding of, 422, 439, 545

Wadsworth, Evelyn, see Symington, Evelyn Wadsworth

Wadsworth, James, Jr., 540

Wadsworth, James, Sr., 401, 422, 523, 534, 540, 550

wages, 174–75, 289

Wales, 215, 221, 251

Walker, John, 392, 425, 428

Walker, Robert, 281–82

Wall Street, 143, 163–64, 375

Ward, Artemus, 61

War Department, U.S., 95, 339, 344

Telegraph Office of, 53, 92–93, 336

Warner, Charles Dudley, 131, 214

War of 1812, 17, 259

Warsaw, Ill., 4, 17–22, 308, 383, 526

anti-Mormonism in, 20–22, 121

blacks in, 58

growth stunted in, 18

Hay’s memories of, 18–19, 21, 39, 112–13

Hay’s returns to, 4, 26–27, 32, 39, 49, 99, 115–16, 119, 120, 132, 155, 158, 162, 179, 183, 194, 272

as literary setting, 140

naming of, 17

as Spunky Point, 18

Warsaw Signal, 20

Washington, D.C., 1–7, 9–10, 11, 41–65, 68–78, 82–87, 92–107, 176–78, 183–99, 238–49, 251–55, 258–69, 275–77, 289–93, 298, 309, 335–54, 397–401, 407–11, 482–84, 523–34, 540–42, 544

Adams’s views on, 177–78, 247

Baltimore and Potomac Depot in, 205

Beresford in, 357

Bunau-Varilla in, 478–81, 486, 492–97

Capitol in, 41, 100, 289, 290, 408, 541

Concha in, 430–32, 436, 441

Confederate advance on, 84–85, 238

Conkling in, 201

defense of, 44, 60, 85

Duque in, 476–77

in fiction, 10, 195–97

Guiteau in, 204–5

Hay’s house in, 7, 232–33, 235, 239, 242–45, 417, 422, 442–43, 480–81, 496, 497, 524–25, 550

Hay’s returns to, 113–14, 119–20, 176, 183, 185, 239, 244, 361, 389, 404, 407, 412, 440, 465, 506, 519, 521, 524, 540, 541, 546

Hay’s views on, 41–42

hotels in, 9, 45, 75, 185, 186, 550

Lafayette Square in, 7, 49, 121, 244, 245, 247–49, 253, 276, 279–80, 283, 291, 319, 337, 341, 342, 350, 368, 417, 440, 442, 496, 522, 524–25, 541, 550

McClellan’s house in, 49–50, 51, 247

Martínez Silva in, 429–30

murder in, 121, 248

Nicolay’s move to, 160

Reid in, 130

Reyes in, 500–501

Russian embassy in, 466

slavery in, 44, 55

social life in, 45, 114, 176, 178, 186–89, 261, 265, 268

Soldiers’ Home in, 5, 51, 52, 73, 85

State, War, and Navy Building in, 185

Telegraph Office in, 53, 92–93, 336

theater in, 2, 45, 51, 75, 102–5, 248, 268

von Holleben in, 447, 449–53

vulnerability of, 44, 47

Whitney wedding in, 422

see also White House

Washington, George, 14, 15, 82, 260, 423

hairs of, 171, 311

Washington Country Club, 268

Washington Daily Chronicle, 76

Washington Evening Star, 419, 434

Washington Monument, 41, 266, 267, 290

Watterson, Henry, 202–3, 393

Watts, Henry, 119

Webster, Daniel, 247

Weed, Thurlow, 108

Weihaiwei, 354, 355, 362

Welles, Gideon, 56–57, 61–62, 104, 114

Wellman, Walter, 190

West:

Fortieth Parallel Survey in, 148

Hay’s views on, 18–19, 28–29

Western Hemisphere, 9, 445, 529

see also Monroe Doctrine

Western Reserve College, 220

Western Reserve Pioneer Association, 183

Western School, 134–36

“Western School, The” (Hay), 134

Western Union, 156, 163, 220

West Indies, 286, 331

Danish, 372, 401, 422

Wharton, Edith, 423, 551

What Cheer, 26

Wheaton, Colonel, 49

Whigs, 14, 16, 23, 34, 515

Whiskey Ring, 170

White, Henry, 234, 258, 324, 333, 334, 412, 439

as acting ambassador in England, 347, 348

Danish West Indies deal and, 372, 422

Hay’s correspondence with, 325, 347, 348, 361, 362, 369, 370, 373, 391, 392, 394, 401, 449, 455

promotion of, 530

Venezuela affair and, 449, 453

White, Margaret, 324

White, Stanford, 296, 422

White, William Allen, 8, 300, 307, 375

White House, 1–6, 10, 42–49, 51–54, 66, 68–69, 71–74, 82, 85, 98, 102, 104, 169, 337

accommodations in, 42, 245, 335–36, 437, 440

Adams at, 418

as barracks, 44

B’nai B’rith members at, 463–64

Bunau-Varilla at, 479, 493–94

Cromwell-Roosevelt talk at, 472

Hay and Nicolay’s eviction from, 3–4, 99

Hay’s avoiding of, 171

Hay’s mansion in relation to, 244, 245

Hay’s visits to, 5, 114, 176, 264, 524, 532, 540

Lamon at, 93, 180

New Year’s reception at (1863), 63

office-seekers at, 43, 74, 113, 198

as official name, 437

payroll of, 36

redecorating of, 74, 114, 167, 335–36, 437, 440, 448

Roosevelt portrait and, 456, 457

serenades at, 62–63, 94, 98

shabbiness and disarray of, 1–2, 5, 43

Venezuela troubles and, 448–51, 453

waiting room at, 46

Whitman, Sarah Helen, 27, 28

Whitney, Helen Julia Hay, 4, 175, 186, 363, 401, 403, 510, 550, 551

birth of, 166

childbirths of, 458, 523

in Colorado, 257

education of, 264, 273

father’s correspondence with, 458

father’s relationship with, 273

father’s visits with, 464, 505, 540

foreign travel of, 213, 214, 217, 251, 286–88, 303, 315, 321, 324, 332, 335, 542, 544

in New Hampshire, 272, 273, 279, 295, 402

in New York, 271, 273, 534, 540

wedding of, 422, 439, 545

Whitney, Joan, see Payson, Joan Whitney

Whitney, John Hay “Jock,” 523, 550

Whitney, Payne, 401, 422, 439, 464, 505, 523, 550, 551

travel abroad of, 542, 544

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 133

Wilderness, Battle of the (1864), 83

Wilhelm I, Kaiser of Germany, 117, 126–28, 328

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 328, 353, 443–49, 537

Wilson, Henry (Mass. senator), 43

Wilson, Henry L. (U.S. diplomat), 537

Wilson, Woodrow, 412

Wilson’s Creek, Battle of (1861), 48

Windsor Castle, 316–17, 323–24

Winous Point Shooting Club, 252, 258, 280–81, 307

Winter, William, 131

Wisconsin, USS, 440, 441

Witte, Sergei, 362, 363

Wolf, Simon, 462, 464

Wood, Fernando, 98

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 216, 221, 225, 228, 233–34

death of, 286–87

World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair), 283

World’s Work, 13, 385

World War I, 451, 503, 551

Wright, Miss, 110

Wu T’ing-fang, 364, 382

Yale University, 288, 295, 401, 402

Hay’s honorary degree from, 395, 412

Yalu River, 482

Yangtze River, 353, 355, 356

Yangtze Valley, 354

“yellow” journalism, 299, 386

Yellow Sea, 354, 355, 458, 459

Yellowstone National Park, 288–91, 356, 417

Yorktown, siege of (1862), 56, 58

Young, Brigham, 21

Young, John Russell, 32, 131, 202–3