Abbreviations used in the Notes:
AA Alvey Adee
AL Abraham Lincoln
ALPLM Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
AP Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
B-AL Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2 vols. (2008)
B-CORR Michael Burlingame, ed., At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings (2000)
B&E Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Civil War Diary of John Hay (1997)
B-JOUR Michael Burlingame, ed., Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860–1865 (1998)
B-NIC Michael Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865 (2000)
B-V Philippe Bunau-Varilla
B-W John Hay, The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (1884)
CFW Constance Fenimore Woolson
CK Clarence King
CSH Clara Stone Hay
DEN Tyler Dennett, John Hay: From Poetry to Politics (1933)
ESC Elizabeth Sherman Cameron
FR Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
HAE Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (1918); reprinted as Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education (Library of America, 1983)
HAL J. C. Levenson, et al., eds., The Letters of Henry Adams, 8 vols. (1982–88)
HA-MHS Henry Adams Papers, microfilm, Massachusetts Historical Society
HCL Henry Cabot Lodge
HCL-MHS Henry Cabot Lodge Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
HJ-JH George Monteiro, Henry James and John Hay: The Record of a Friendship (1965)
HW Henry White
HW-LC Henry White Papers, Library of Congress
JC Joseph Choate
JGN John George Nicolay
JGN-LC, John George Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress
JH John Hay
JH-ADD Addresses of John Hay (1907)
JH-ALPLM John Hay Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
JH-BU John Hay Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University
JH-CPW The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay (1917)
JH-LC John Hay Papers, Library of Congress
JH-LET Clara Hay, ed., Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, 3 vols. (1908)
JH-WDH George Monteiro and Brenda Murphy, eds., John Hay-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells, 1861–1905 (1980)
LC Library of Congress
M-WRHS Mather Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society
MCK William McKinley
MCK-LC William McKinley Papers, Library of Congress
MHA Marian Hooper (Clover) Adams
MHS Massachusetts Historical Society
N&H:AL John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, 10 vols. (1890)
RTL Robert Todd Lincoln
TR Theodore Roosevelt
TR-LET Elting Morison, et al., eds., The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 8 vols. (1951–54)
WAD-LC Wadsworth Family Papers, Library of Congress
WDH William Dean Howells
WR Whitelaw Reid
WR-LC Whitelaw Reid Correspondence, Library of Congress
WRHS Western Reserve Historical Society
WRT William Roscoe Thayer
WRT-HU William Roscoe Thayer Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
WRT-L&L William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, 2 vols. (1908)
WWR William W. Rockhill
WWR-HU William W. Rockhill Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
“ill-kept, inconvenient”: JGN to Therena Bates, March 26, 1865, B-NIC, 176.
“[S]omething happened”: Thomas E. Pendel, Thirty-Six Years in the White House, 42–44.
“Now he belongs”: N&H:AL 10:302.
standing amid his father’s papers: Goff, Robert Todd Lincoln, 72.
“Words seem so inadequate”: JGN to Therena Bates, April 24, 1865, B-NIC, 178.
“I found the shadow”: JH to RTL, August 26, 1865, JH-BU.
“the greatest man of his time”: N&H:AL 10:295.
“the tall gaunt figure”: “Abraham Lincoln’s Shakespeare,” James G. Randall MS, in B&E, 346.
“I’m keeper”: F. A. Mitchel to JH, February 12, 1905, JH-BU.
“more fun than a goat”: JH to HA, June 15, 1900, HA-MHS.
“splendid little war”: JH to TR, July 27, 1898, in WRT-L&L 2:337.
both dog and cat: White, Masks in a Pageant, 285–86.
“You do things so easily”: JH to ESC, n.d., AP.
“embonpoint”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“an oughtnottobiography”: JH to R. W. Gilder, March 1, 1902, JH-BU.
“He so far overshadows”: [New York] Evening Sun, n.d. [1903], clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“If a man [were to]”: “The Great Secretary of State,” 6561.
“extreme refinement . . . allege his own merits”: Address by Elihu Root at the Dedication of the John Hay Library, BU, November 11, 1910, JH-BU.
a pat on the head: JH, Life of Dr. Charles Hay, 3.
“harsh and arbitrary ideas”: JH, ibid., 4.
met with “gratifying success”: Biographical Review of Hancock County, 12.
“But he always”: JH, Life of Dr. Charles Hay, 5.
the first man to sign: JH, ibid., 5–6.
“the rigorous fashion”: JH, genealogy of David August Leonard, 1896, MS, JH-LC.
“[Y]ou are no doubt . . . Shakespeare expresses it”: Charles Hay to Elisabeth Hay, July 27, 1829, JH-BU.
“It has made our town”: Charles Hay to Milton Hay, July 15, 1833, JH-BU.
“the le[a]ven of a better character”: Charles Hay to “Dear Sister,” September 23, 1830, JH-BU.
“light reading . . . favorite reading”: JH, Life of Dr. Charles Hay, 12.
“There are quite as many”: Charles Hay to Milton Hay, November 3, 1836, Charles Hay Papers, ALPLM.
“[H]e had an inexhaustible”: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 449.
“[S]ome idiots”: JH to Harriet Loring, June 30, 1870, WRT-L&L 1:7.
“one of the many western”: [HA], “Biography of John Hay,” The Reserve, published by the Junior Class of Adelbert College, 1893, 10.
“reposing from its plunge”: JH, “The Blood Seedling,” 281.
“O grandly flowing”: JH, “On the Bluff,” JH-CPW, 171.
“a region whose moral”: JH to Sarah Whitman, August 30, 1858, JH-BU.
exile from the East: JH to Sarah Whitman, December 15, 1858, JH-BU.
“The ruling motive”: N&H:AL 1:16.
reestablishing himself as a physician: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 446.
“They were not especially”: JH, Life of Dr. Charles Hay, 12.
“The rule of the household”: JH, ibid., 15.
“John was a student”: Charles E. Hay to WRT, December 22, 1923, WRT-HU.
“It can be proven”: Warsaw Signal, April 24, 1844.
“sitting on his throne . . . iron rod”: Warsaw Signal, February 28, 1844.
“[H]e was everywhere”: JH, The Life of Dr. Charles Hay, 11.
an article to the Atlantic . . . “sustain that verdict”: JH, “The Mormon Prophet’s Tragedy,” 669–78.
“When we were both”: Charles E. Hay to WRT, December 22, 1923, WRT-HU.
“[H]e was spoken of”: Ibid.
“red-cheeked . . . like a professor”: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 449.
“There had been very little”: N&H:AL 1:154.
“[A]ll the sentimental”: JH to his sister, March 5, 1854, DEN 18.
“I had a whirling”: JH to “Dear Friends,” September 30, 1855, JH-BU.
“He at once”: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 450.
“[I]f I go through so hurriedly”: JH to “My Dear friends,” November 28, 1955, JH-BU.
“The professors . . . hear him lecture”: Ibid.
“Hay that is green”: W. E. Louttit, “John Hay in Theta Delta Chi,” typescript, JH-BU.
“Resolved . . . than poets”: W. E. Louttit, ibid.
“a young Dr. Johnson”: William Leete Stone, “John Hay, 1858,” Memories of Brown: Traditions and Recollections Gathered from Many Sources (1909), 154.
“the most felicitous”: Angell, Reminiscences, 109.
“They are our brothers”: JH, “The Fratricidal Character of War with England,” MS, March 1856, JH-ALPLM.
“The first who undertook”: JH, “Foreign Travel Beneficial to the Man of Letters,” MS, n.d., JH-ALPLM.
“Political feeling”: JH to “My Dear Uncle,” March 30, 1856, JH-BU.
Hay and a roommate: James Angell to William Leete Stone, March 25, 1906, JH-BU.
“To say it was a class poem”: WDH, “John Hay in Literature,” 343.
“When I look . . . upon me now”: JH to Hannah Angell, August 13 and July 19, 1858, A College Friendship 26, 17.
“I am unhappy”: JH to Hannah Angell, October 20, 1858, ibid., 33.
“The prevailing tendency”: JH, untitled MS, n.d., JH-ALPLM.
“[N]ow that my journey”: JH to Nora Perry, August 30, 1858, in Ticknor, ed., A Poet in Exile, 13.
“I have been very near”: JH to Sarah Whitman, December 15, 1858, JH-BU.
“I alternate between”: JH to Hannah Angell, May 2, 1859, A College Friendship, 45–46.
“If you want to see”: JH to Leander C. Manchester, July 23, 1857, JH-BU.
“How like a fool . . . will be quiet”: JH to Hannah Angell, October 20 and December 11, 1858, A College Friendship, 34, 38.
“I prefer”: JH to Nora Perry, January 2, 1859, in Ticknor, ed., A Poet in Exile, 24.
“Drearily sweeping”: JH, “In the Mist,” ibid., 27–28.
“I believe in the maxim”: Charles Hay to “My Dear Brother,” September 6, 1858, JH-BU.
“I would not do”: JH to “My Dear Uncle,” January 28, 1859, JH-BU.
“In a short while . . . shorter sorrow”: JH to William Douglas O’Connor, February 6, 1859, JH-BU.
The other attorneys of record: Miers, ed., Lincoln Day by Day, 2:257.
“I am stranded”: JH to “Dear Friend” [William Leete Stone], May 20, 1859, JH-BU.
“One of his original conundrums”: Mary Ridgley Hay, “Springfield, Illinois, in 1860, by a Native Springfielder,” typescript, n.d., JH-BU.
“a tongue that could”: Brown, “Springfield Society Before the Civil War,” 497–98.
“He was, for those”: Carr, The Illini, 139.
“dark, lustrous . . . in those days”: Mary Ridgley Hay, “Springfield, Illinois, in 1860.”
“the close, methodical”: John Russell Young, “Lincoln as He Was,” Pittsburgh Dispatch, August 23, 1891, in Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, xviii.
“[I]f ever there was”: Mary Ridgley Hay, “Springfield, Illinois, in 1860.”
“My insanity has not”: JH to Hannah Angell, May 5, 1860, A College Friendship, 55.
“When the lightning . . . and jubilant”: Ecarte, Providence Journal, May 26, 1860, B-JOUR 1–3.
“The deluge . . . clamorous plaudits”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, August 11, 1860, B-JOUR 3–6.
“It is one of the truest”: Ecarte, Providence Journal, September 19, 1860, B-JOUR 9.
“to symbolize the indissoluble”: Newton Bateman, Abraham Lincoln: An Address (1899), in Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 21.
“I wish I could find”: Chapman, “The Boyhood of John Hay,” 452.
Nicolay readily took: B-AL, 651–52.
“great literary talent”: Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait, 321.
“We can’t take . . . let Hay come”: WRT-L&L 1:87.
“a sea of perplexities”: N&H:AL 1:201.
“In many respects”: N&H:AL 1:201–02.
“It is cowardly”: JH to Nora Perry, March 4, 1860, in Ticknor, ed., A Poet in Exile, 45.
“I never practiced”: JH to Adelbert Hay, October 20, 1898, JH-LC.
“I shall never enjoy”: JH to Mrs. A. E. Edwards, November 29, 1860, in B-CORR 3.
“I believe he is strongly”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, January 11, 1861, B-JOUR 18.
“Mr. Lincoln will not”: Ecarte, Missouri Democrat, January 29, 1861, B-JOUR 21.
Lincoln would deliver: Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 389–90.
“If the reader could”: “From our correspondent,” New York World, February 21, 1861, B-JOUR 35.
“as soft and sympathetic . . . captivated and entranced”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, February 25, 1861, B-JOUR 40.
“an organized plan . . . lose them all”: “From our own correspondent”: New York World, February 27, 1861, B-JOUR 44.
“Tomorrow we enter”: JH to Annie E. Johnston, February 22, 1861, JH-BU.
“in broad avenues . . . Appian Way”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 48–49.
“a congerie of hovels . . . from the terrace”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 48–49.
“I waited with boyish”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington,” galley proof of lecture, c. 1871, JH-Brown; also B-CORR 119.
“seedy . . . unsuccessful hotel”: Leech, Reveille in Washington, 6; Baker, “The Lincoln White House,” 45, 47; Rietveld, “The Lincoln White House Community,” 20–21.
“We have very pleasant”: JGN to Therena Bates, March 7, 1861, B-NIC 29–30.
“the intolerable press”: JH to William Leete Stone, March 15, 1861, B-CORR 5.
“The President is affable . . . grim Cerberus”: Noah Brooks, “How They Live in the White House,” November 7, 1863, in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 83.
“sour and crusty” . . . bought him leniency: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, 57.
“[John Hay] might have”: Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, 85.
“They don’t want much”: Henry Wilson to William Herndon, May 30, 1867, in Wilson and Davis, eds., Lincoln’s Informants, 562.
“letting lodgings”: N&H:AL 4:69.
“The White House is”: JH diary, April 18, 1861, B&E 1.
“I have seen”: JH diary, April 24, 1861, B&E 10.
“and pay her”: JH diary, April 25, 1861, B&E 11.
“He always seemed”: JH, “Ellsworth,” Atlantic Monthly 8 (July 1861), 119–25.
“When Ellsworth”: JH to Mrs. James H. Coggeshall, August 12, 1861, A College Friendship, 61.
“[m]iraculous in meanness”: Missouri Republican, n.d., B-JOUR 286.
“blear caravanserai . . . air at once”: “From Our Special Correspondent,” New York World, March 4, 1861, B-JOUR 49–50.
“the brains of society”: JGN to Therena Bates, June 30, 1861, B-NIC 45.
“ ‘Those light at heart’ ”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, August 19, 1861, B-JOUR 95.
“O strong, free”: JH, “Northward,” scrapbook of Civil War poems, JH-BU.
“I am getting along”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1862, B-CORR 20.
“the crumbs of official”: N&H:AL 4:68.
a letter of introduction: John W. Starr, “Lincoln and the Office Seekers,” typescript, 1936, quoted in B-NIC 231–32.
Letters arrived: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 14.
“the rant and drivel”: Ibid., 157.
“statuesque”: Stoddard, “Memoirs,” Detroit Public Library, in Burlingame, intro. to Stoddard, Inside the White House, xii.
“quick witted,” “a born diplomat”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 57; Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 91.
“almost boyish . . . far better”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 151.
“Ah me!”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, August 19, 1861, B-JOUR 97.
“I think the mug”: JH to Mrs. A. E. Edwards, October 12, 1861, B-COUR 13.
“With the ushering”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, July 24, 1861, B-JOUR 78.
“shipwreck of our”: New York Tribune, July 23, 1861, B-AL 1:185.
“the defeat was not”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, July 24, 1861, B-JOUR 76.
“There is nothing”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington.”
also a conservative . . . “might please me”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 58–59, 95.
“The ghosts of twenty”: JH to JGN, June 20, 1864, B-JOUR 85.
“imperious”: JH diary, August 28, 1861, B&E 24.
“born leader”: Missouri Republican, October 13, 1861, B-JOUR 101.
“seemed very hopeful . . . no plan”: JH diary, October 22, 1861, B&E 27–28.
“I can do it all”: JH diary, November 1, 1861, B&E 30.
“I wish to record”: JH diary, November 13, 1861, B&E 32.
“[I]t is ill”: Missouri Republican, December 17, 1861, B-JOUR 162–63.
“slows,” “idiot,” “baboon”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 338, 103, 132.
“weak, vacillating”: New York Tribune, December 23, 1881, in Monteiro, “John Hay and the Union Generals,” 51.
“long mismanagement”: N&H:AL 6:193.
“I went with him”: JH diary, August 23, 1863, B&E 75–76.
“short shirt hanging”: JH diary, April 30, 1864, B&E 194.
“What a man”: JH diary, April 30, 1864, B&E 194.
“He was one”: JH, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” 34.
“all one bubble . . . Nobody can tell”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 166–67.
“laughed through his term”: JH diary, November 18, 1863, B&E 112; Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, 85: “It was said that he ‘laughed through the war.’ But he never laughed at it.”
“mourning around”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 153.
“butcher’s day”: Ibid., 170.
“I was amused . . . to shoot them”: JH diary, July 18, 1863, B&E 64.
“At about 5 o’clock”: JGN journal, February 20, 1862, B-NIC 71.
“With the fire”: N&H:AL 10:355.
“the institution of slavery . . . or all the other”: Foner, The Fiery Trial, 25, 99.
“to conserve and protect . . . storm-rent republic”: Missouri Republican, May 23, 1862, B-JOUR 264–65.
“There was onset”: N&H:AL 5:325.
“you must act”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 178.
“[T]he little Napoleon”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1862, B-CORR 20.
“should not be allowed”: Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 118; Sears, George B. McClellan, 227–28.
“God will yet foil”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 236–37.
“will not conserve”: JH to Mary Jay, July 20, 1862, B-CORR 23.
“Both [extremes are]”: Missouri Republican, July 21, 1862, B-JOUR 284–85.
“that all men could”: N&H:AL 6:153.
“even when you cease”: Foner, The Fiery Trial, 224.
“general impression . . . of old houses”: Missouri Republican, June 27, 1862, B-JOUR 274.
“seedy gentility”: Ibid.
Lincoln invited discussion: Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 465–68; Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 134–37.
“[A]bout Eight . . . people now”: JH diary, September 1, 1862, B&E 37–38.
“McClellan’s bodyguard”: N&H:AL 6:175.
“Again I have been”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 263.
“Mr. Lincoln says”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 169.
“If anyone tried”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington.”
“If I could save”: N&H:AL 6:153.
“What good would”: Basler et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 5:420.
“commenced fur to pound”: Artemus Ward, “High-Handed Outrage at Utica,” in Ward, His Works, Complete (1877), 34.
“a club”: B-AL 2:409.
an act of national suicide: B-AL 2:15.
“accursed doctrine”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 324.
“touched neither justice”: B-AL 2:409.
“There was no doubt”: Missouri Republican, September 29, 1862, B-JOUR 312.
“I shall make no attempt”: B-AL 2:415.
“the Government [was] done”: Missouri Republican, September 26, 1862, B-JOUR 311.
“They all seemed”: JH diary, September 24, 1862, B&E 41.
“I have been shaking”: Carpenter, Six Months in the White House, 269–70.
“a fixed thing”: Orville Browning diary, January 19, 1863, B-AL 2:478.
“stuck in the mud . . . hope in patience”: JGN to Therena Bates, February 8 and January 15, 1863, B-NIC 103–04.
“The war seems”: JH to Adam Badeau, January 9, 1863, B-CORR 29–30.
“I want my abolition”: JH to JGN, April 8, 1863, B-CORR 33.
“I hope . . . that due honor”: JH to AL, April 10, 1863, B-CORR 35–36.
“I shall never cease . . . than I do now”: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, April 23, 1863, B-CORR 38.
“The air is like June”: JH to JGN, April 8, 1863, B-CORR 33.
“Linkum” . . . “No man see Linkum”: JH, “The Heroic Age in Washington,” JH-BU.
“It is the only thing”: JH to JGN, May 1, 1863, B-CORR 39.
“The soil is almost”: JH to John Hay (grandfather), May 2, 1863, B-CORR 40.
“As we sat”: JH to JGN, May 1, 1863, B-CORR 40.
So enthralled was he: Reid, After the War, 171–72.
“There is positively”: JH to JGN, May 24, 1863, B-CORR 42.
“vacillating and purposeless”: N&H:AL 7:107.
“Had a thunderbolt”: Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 50.
“the darkest day”: Stoddard, Lincoln’s Third Secretary, 173.
“All accounts agree”: New York Times, May 12, 1863, in Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 521.
“We need not”: AL 7:109–10.
“tall, thin, reserved”: N&H:AL 7:226.
“[T]hese two formidable”: N&H:AL 7:234.
“No sight so beautiful”: N&H:AL 7:263.
“gave the last full measure of devotion”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 7:19.
“There were still”: N&H:AL 7:309.
“The President seemed”: JH diary, July 11, 1863, B&E 61.
“ ‘Our Army held’ ”: JH diary, July 19, 1863, B&E 64–65.
“The Tycoon is in fine”: JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, B-CORR 49.
“Lincoln was, as usual”: N&H:AL 5:226.
“If I had gone”: JH diary, July 15, 1863, B&E 63.
“were always clearer”: N&H:AL 5:402.
“keep his fingers . . . equally firm”: JH to JGN, September 11, 1863, B-CORR 54.
“I have to a great”: JH to Charles Halpine, August 14, 1863, B-CORR 51.
“had a fearful orgie”: JH to JGN, July 18, 1863, B-CORR 45.
“unfit for family”: JH to Charles Halpine, November 22, 1863, B-CORR 68.
“In eighteen hundred”: AL, “Lee’s Preliminary Report,” unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook of Civil War poems, JH-BU; see also Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Supplement 1:194 and B&E 306.
“the Hell-Cat”: JH to JGN, April 5, 1862, B-CORR 19.
“Madame has mounted”: JH to JGN, April 4, 1862, B-CORR 19.
“the powers at the other end”: JGN to JH, January 18, 1864, B-NIC 124.
“domestic troubles”: Orville H. Browning to JGN, June 17, 1875, in Burlingame, ed., An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, 3.
“The devil is abroad . . . more Hellcatical”: JH to JGN, April 5 and 9, 1862, B-CORR 19–20.
“some of the best . . . Nico & I”: JH diary, November 8, 1863, B&E 109.
“J. Wilkes Booth was doing”: JH diary, November 9, 1863, B&E 110.
“and drank a good deal”: JH diary, November 11, 1863, B&E 111.
“said half a dozen” . . . no one got much rest: JH diary, November 18, 1863, B&E 112.
“I got a beast”: JH diary, November 19, 1863, B&E 113.
Everett spoke “perfectly”: Ibid.
“The world will little”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 7:19.
“[T]he President in a firm”: JH diary, November 19, 1863, B&E 113.
“the rebel power is”: JH diary, August 9, 1863, B&E 70.
“to inaugurate measures”: Nulty, Confederate Florida, 74.
“pretty warm . . . I made a bad dodge”: JH diary, February 1 and 2, 1864, B&E 151–52.
“it was not the President’s”: JH diary, January 20, 1864, B&E 145.
“Opened my book”: JH diary, February 6, 1864, B&E 154.
“I have the best”: JH to AL, February 8, 1864, B-CORR 76.
“a lot of stragglers”: Joseph Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, March 4, 1864, in Arthur L. Shipman, “Letters of Joseph R. Hawley,” typescript, 1929, Connecticut Historical Society, in B-CORR 246.
“In [the] middle”: JH diary, February 18, 1864, B&E 167–68.
“The fighting on both . . . their ranks”: JH to JGN, February 23, 1864, B-CORR 77.
“unsteady and queer”: JH diary, February 21, 1864, B&E 169.
“Executive intermeddling . . . one million of dollars”: New York Herald, February 23, 1864.
“brigades of our brave”: New York Herald, March 1, 1864.
“I can’t think of leaving”: JH to JGN, February 23, 1864, B-CORR 78.
“would not give us”: JH diary, March 3, 1864, B&E 173.
disinterested or “unscrupulous scamps”: JH diary, March 8, 1864, B&E 177.
“[T]he Tycoon never”: JH to Charles Halpine, April 13, 1864, B-CORR 80.
“a quiet, self-possessed”: JH diary, March 27, 1864, B&E 185.
“The primeval forest”: N&H:AL 10:352.
“Men were killed”: N&H:AL 8:380–81.
“mutual slaughter”: N&H:AL 8:360.
“The President thinks very”: JH diary, May 9, 1864, B&E 195.
“The President is cheerful”: JGN to Therena Bates, May 15, 1864, B-NIC 141.
“I have never been”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 7:395–96.
“He was in the Fort”: JH diary, July 11, 1864, B&E 221.
“The President is in very”: Ibid.
“our bleeding, bankrupt”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, B-AL 2:669.
“yellow hand bag”: “From our own correspondent,” New York World, February 19, 1861, B-JOUR 32.
“I do say that a frank”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, N&H:AL 9:187.
“If you can find”: N&H:AL 9:187–88.
“abused & blackguarded”: JH diary, c. July 21, 1864, B&E 224.
“propose terms which”: Ibid., 224–25.
“To whom it may”: N&H:AL 9:192.
“tea & toasting”: JH diary, c. July 21, 1864, B&E 224.
“a seedy looking rebel . . . & false hair”: Ibid.
“half-witted adventurer”: Ibid., 229.
“rude withdrawal . . . civilization of the country”: N&H:AL 9:194.
“Copperheads to get”: Joseph Medill to JH, August 10, 1864, JH-BU (italics in original).
“The damned scoundrel”: JH to JGN, August 25, 1864, B-CORR 91.
“half statements”: N&H:AL 9:199.
“in some respects Mr. Greeley”: New York Times, December 28, 1882, in B-AL 2:671.
“peculiarities of caprice”: N&H:AL 6:84.
“almost the condition”: JGN to Therena Bates, August 28, 1864, B-NIC 153.
“I lose my temper”: JH to JGN, August 25, 1864, B-CORR 92.
“four years of failure”: B-AL 2:681.
“immediate efforts . . . Federal Union”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 372–73.
“the surrender platform . . . The Lord preserve”: JGN to Therena Bates, September 4, 1864, B-NIC 157.
“From the moment”: N&H:AL 9:351.
“I shall fight like”: JGN to AL, August 30, 1864, B-NIC 155.
“with the steady pace”: N&H:AL 10:156.
“con amore”: JH diary, October 11, 1864, B&E 239.
“The night was rainy . . . past against him”: JH diary, November 8, 1864, B&E 244–45.
“awkwardly and hospitably”: Ibid., 246.
“rolling himself up”: Ibid.
“he who is most . . . any man’s bosom”: N&H:AL 9:380–81.
“[n]ot very graceful . . . after the fact”: JH diary, November 11, 1864, B&E 248.
“At first we tried”: JH to William Herndon, September 5, 1866, in Wilson and Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants, 331.
“Colonel Hay imitated”: Stoddard, Inside the White House, 159.
“the best specimen”: Burlingame, “The Authorship of the Bixby Letter,” B-CORR 171.
“I have been shown”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 8:116–17.
“a piece of the American”: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vols. (1939), 3:669.
In the end . . . seldom in Lincoln’s: Burlingame, “The Authorship of the Bixby Letter,” 169–84.
“The more [Lincoln’s]”: N&H:AL 10:352.
“From the hour . . . plainly declining”: N&H:AL 10:148, 152–53.
“common little wall tent . . . them this winter”: JH diary, November 16, 1864, B&E 250–51.
“The Anaconda is beginning . . . the great event”: JGN to Therena Bates, December 16 and 18, 1864, B-NIC, 167–68.
“We are like whalers”: N&H:AL 10:74.
“a king’s cure-all . . . and the whole world”: N&H:AL 87–88.
“great moral victory”: Ibid., 88.
“The great job”: Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, 366.
He had in mind returning: JGN to Simon Cameron, December 23, 1864, Miles-Cameron Papers, LC.
“About three days”: JGN to Therena Bates, December 16, 1864, B-NIC 167.
was typeset and printed: Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 168.
“God . . . speedily pass away”: Basler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 8:333.
“Men are not flattered”: AL to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, N&H:AL 10:146.
“He bore the sorrows”: JH, “Life in the White House at the Time of Lincoln,” 37.
“entirely unsolicited”: JH to Charles E. Hay, March 31, 1865, B-CORR 103.
“Mr. Seward, while”: N&H: AL 6:253.
“The sword is not”: Paolino, The Foundations of the American Empire, 11.
“I think [Paris] will be”: JH to Manning Leonard, April 13, 1865, B-CORR 104.
“No one, not even . . . on the dead body”: N&H:AL 10:294–302.
“a great and powerful lover”: N&H:AL 10:347.
“the greatest character since”: JH to William Herndon, September 5, 1866, JH-LC.
“Bancroft’s address was”: Ibid.
“I envy you . . . watching us from heaven”: JH to RTL, August 26, 1865, JH-BU.
“Hay is a bright”: Thurlow Weed to John Bigelow, April 26, 1865, in Bigelow, Retrospections 1:521.
“genial gentleman”: JH to “My Dear Brother,” August 4, 1865, JH-BU.
“In my boyhood”: JH to Charles Hay, December 15, 1866, JH-BU.
“bright new spick”: JH to “My Dear Brother,” August 4, JH-BU.
“swarming hives . . . new West End”: Ibid.
“keep from stagnating”: Ibid.
“[Paris] is so”: JH to “Miss Wright,” n.d., JH-BU.
“Our Countrywomen”: Bigelow, Retrospections, 1:261, 263–65.
“in pursuit of health”: JH to Richard Parson, April 11, 1866, JH-BU.
“what the newspapers . . . could send out”: JH, “Shelby Cabell,” 607.
“I stand at the break”: JH, “Sunrise in the Place de la Concorde,” JH-CPW 29.
“It never seems to occur”: JH to “My Dear Father & Mother & Sister,” February 2, 1866, JH-BU.
“more gold than broadcloth . . . a light-weight Republican”: Ibid.
“small clothes . . . fine as her profile”: Ibid.
“I consider Lincoln”: JH to William Herndon, September 5, 1866, JH-LC.
“[L]et us look”: JH diary, n.d., JH-Brown.
“[One] of these days”: JH to “My Dear Brother,” January 16, 1866, JH-BU.
“I will be comfortable”: Ibid.
“I have money”: JH to Charles Hay, December 15, 1866, JH-BU.
“the History of Lincoln”: Ibid.
“the same placid philosophic”: JH to JGN, February 14, 1867, JH-BU.
“habitual disrespect”: Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, 249.
“dessication and fossilizing”: JH diary, February 4, JH-BU.
“more richly and carefully”: Ibid.
“[I]f he had done”: JH diary, n.d., JH-BU.
“I bid farewell”: JH to JGN, March 5, 1867, JH-BU.
“To own the knowledge”: JH to William Seward, March 4, 1867, transcript in JH diary, JH-BU.
“[n]obody is keen”: JH to JGN, March 18, 1867, JH-BU.
“the key to the boxes . . . kicked out”: Ibid.
“better than usual . . . growing boy”: Ibid.
“I am doing work”: JH diary, June 3, 1867, JH-BU.
“I suspect I am”: JH to John Bigelow, May 18, 1867, JH-BU.
“I have scarcely . . . than anywhere else”: JH diary, June 3, 1867, JH-BU.
The salary was: DEN 64.
“directness and simplicity . . . decent stolid fellows”: JH diary, 1867, JH-BU.
“It is a pleasant”: JH, “Down the Danube,” 625.
“Austria is perhaps”: JH to “My Dear Young,” August 24, 1867, JH-BU.
“The great luxury”: JH to JGN, September 2, 1867, JH-BU.
“the whole town”: JH diary, September 8, 1867, JH-BU.
“I have never seen a”: JH diary, September 9, 1867, JH-BU.
“I have had a pleasant”: JH to John Bigelow, April 27, 1868, JH-LC.
“The great calamity”: JH to William Seward, February 5, 1868, WRT-L&L 1:303.
“It is curious”: JH to John Bigelow, April 27, 1868, JH-LC.
“Wattshisname”: JH to JGN, July 13, 1868, JH-BU.
“in peaceful pursuit . . . broken down politician”: JH to JGN, December 8, 1868, JH-BU.
“John Hay”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, BU.
“He is severe upon”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, BU.
“You will find”: JH to JGN, May 14, 1869, JH-BU.
“He is a bright”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, BU.
“I have determined”: JH to John Bigelow, July 2, 1869, Retrospections, 4:294–95; in Macbeth, Act IV, scene i, the hell-broth “boils” rather than seethes.
“cheerless and bare . . . freedom and progress”: JH, Castilian Days, 2, 26, 60.
“I have never imagined”: JH diary, October 3, 1869, JH-BU.
“blind reverence”: JH, Castilian Days, 56.
“knuckle-bones . . . the lack of modern . . . tender melody”: Ibid., 57, 371, 12.
“retain the speech”: JH to John Bigelow, July 21, 1870, JH-BU.
“The longer you look”: JH, Castilian Days, 143–44.
“The Spanish people are too”: JH to Charles Hay, January 28, 1870, JH-BU.
“If we want the Island”: JH to John Bigelow, May 9, 1870, JH-BU.
“[A] new and beneficent”: JH, Castilian Days, 369–70.
“Españolismo”: Ibid., 53.
“You have beauty”: JH to unidentified woman, n.d., JH-BU.
“built on the old-fashioned . . . of the ologies”: JH, Castilian Days, 18, 33.
“chipper as a mudlark”: Dennis, Adventures in American Diplomacy, 318.
“It seems to be”: Edward G. Lowry, Washington Close-ups: Intimate Views of Some Public Figures (1921), 149.
“I could get along”: JH to “My Dear Household Circle,” August 10, 1870, JH-BU.
“I leave Europe in”: Ibid.
“The Empire attained . . . ‘have been deceived!’ ”: [JH], “The Fortunes of the Bonapartes,” 16–17.
even tried to have Reid fired: Duncan, Whitelaw Reid, 24.
dinner at the Union League: WRT-L&L 1:330–31.
“I would rather”: JH to WR, September 21, 1870, JH-BU.
“I do not find the elements”: JH to WR, September 7, 1870, WR-LC.
“shy little vineyard . . . easy to take”: JH to JGN, October 13, 1870, JH-BU.
“au grand sérieux”: JH to JGN, October 27, 1870, JH-BU.
“I cannot regard it”: JH to JGN, December 12, 1870, JH-BU.
the most brilliant editorial writer: WRT-L&L 1:331; DEN 88–89; Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes, 45.
“Come as often”: James T. Fields to JH, December 9, 1870, JH-BU.
“[T]here are many good”: New York Tribune, December 27, 1870.
whose acquaintance Hay and Howells: Fischer and Franks, eds., Mark Twain’s Letters, 4:269–71. It is possible that Hay and Twain met in Buffalo as early as 1867, though the evidence is sketchy at best.
“Anglo-Saxon relapsed”: Bayard Taylor, At Home and Abroad (1860), 51, in Pearl, “The Shiftless Belligerent Pike,” 114.
“[L]et me thank you”: James Fields to JH, December 9, 1870, JH-BU.
“That ridiculous rhyme”: JH to JGN, December 12, 1870, JH-BU.
Twain pointed out: JH to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, January 11, 1889, JH-BU.
Hay insisted that: JH to Samuel Clemens, January 11, 1871, in Fischer and Franks, eds., Mark Twain’s Letters, 4:299.
“a dash of Browning’s”: Louisville Courier-Journal, May 9, 1871, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“These specimens”: New York Tribune, clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“Bret Harte and Col. John”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“It is poor poetry”: Hartford Post, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“prostitution of the mission”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“I am no poet”: JH to Richard Henry Stoddard, October 4, 1871, JH-LC.
“a temporary disease”: JH to John Bigelow, March 12, 1871, JH-BU.
“After Bret Harte”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“John Hay, Author of”: JH, “Kane and Abel,” 85.
“Reputation is very”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
The esteemed Boston Lyceum Bureau: Monteiro, “John Hay’s Lyceum Lectures,” 48.
“His countenance”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“prose epic”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“vociferous and prolonged”: Ibid.
“There was scarcely a desk . . . let me come”: Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes, 8–9.
“I manufacture public”: JH to John Bigelow, December 23, 1871, JH-BU.
“The leading liberal”: New York Tribune, clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“not only the interests”: New York Tribune, clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“the corrupt cabal”: New York Tribune, clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“[H]e never made the mistake . . . at this moment”: Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes, 51–52.
“I was always fond”: Isaac Bromley to JH, November 9, 1890, JH-BU.
“Your work thus far”: WR to JH, December 23, 1870, JH-BU.
“I waste two-thirds”: JH to John Bigelow, March 12, 1871, JH-BU.
“[Robert Lincoln] entered . . . he was already free from”: Monteiro, “John Hay as Reporter,” 85.
“I have here before me . . . tolerant heavens”: Ibid., 87–90.
“I have done all”: JH to WR, October 15, 1871, WR-LC.
“John Hay has, within”: Syracuse Standard, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“the handsome and popular . . . finical and fine”: Unidentified clippings, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“He is a delightful”: JH to John Bigelow, December 23, 1871, JH-BU.
“brilliant and beaming”: WDH, “Meetings with Clarence King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 139.
“in all its deformity”: CK, Mountaineering, 110.
“Every page sparkles”: [WDH], “Recent Literature,” 637–38.
“so alive that it affects . . . masculine performance”: Unidentified clippings, JH scrapbook, JH-BU.
“Hay is doing admirably”: Bigelow, Retrospections, 4:572.
“We ought to see”: JH to WR, “Monday, 1872,” WR-LC.
Encountering a line: Holt, Garrulities, 123.
“I cannot get Reid”: JH to John Bigelow, March 12, 1871, JH-BU.
“I have been brought down”: JH to Albert Rhodes, August 24, 1873, JH-LC.
“Housekeeping appears”: Clara Stone, “Literature versus Housekeeping,” MS, June 13, 1868, JH-LC.
“She is a very estimable”: JH to JGN, August 27, 1873, JH-BU.
“Would the music”: JH to Clara Stone, July 10, 1873, JH-BU.
“Dear Miss Stone”: JH to Clara Stone, May 9, 1872, JH-BU.
“soldier Dictator”: New York Tribune, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“discreditable throng”: New York Tribune, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“present my homage”: JH to Flora Stone, August 9, 1872, M-WRHS.
“Has Miss Clara”: JH to Flora Stone, August 29, 1872, M-WRHS.
“I saw you for that short”: JH to Clara Stone, July 12, 1873, JH-BU.
“finest, most complete”: Cleveland Leader, January 7, 1859.
“which wealth [had] spared”: Cleveland Herald, May 27, 1868, in Dow, “Amasa Stone, Jr.,” 28.
danced a quadrille: Raymond, Recollections of Euclid Avenue.
“My house is desolate”: Horace Greeley to Margaret Allen, November 3, 1872, in Baehr, The New York Tribune Since the Civil War, 113.
“house crowded by”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., accompanying Charles E. Hay to “My Dear Sisters,” December 10, 1872, JH-BU.
“I think I will stay”: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, December 5, 1872, JH-BU.
Precisely what sympathies . . . Gould’s hireling: Kluger, The Paper, 133–35.
“Reid has managed”: JH to Mrs. Charles Hay, December 5, 1872, JH-BU.
“I didn’t try to answer”: WR to JH, December 24, 1872, JH-BU.
“the utterance of a man”: New York Tribune, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I have sometimes gazed”: JH to Clara Stone, May 4, 1873, JH-BU.
“Ah, think what”: JH to Clara Stone, May 4, 1873, JH-BU.
“I love you Clärchen . . . but humbly grateful?”: JH to Clara Stone, May 8, 1873, JH-BU.
“kindest and nicest”: JH to Clara Stone, n.d., JH-BU.
“I was never a happy”: JH to Clara Stone, May 15, 1873, JH-BU.
“the dear young saint”: JH to WR, June 23, 1873, WR-LC.
“I do need somebody”: JH to Clara Stone, August 3, 1873, JH-BU.
“not very strong . . . you and I?”: JH to Clara Stone, September 12, 1873, JH-BU.
“I have a letter”: RTL to JGN, June 19, 1873, JGN-LC.
“He is a man of great”: JH to WR, October 26, 1873, WR-LC.
“I am making an active”: JH to WR, October 29, 1873, WR-LC.
“We have more room”: JH to Flora Stone, February 11, 1874, M-WRHS.
“begin life without”: Amasa Stone to JH, February 23, 1874, JH-BU.
“Your life and habits”: Amasa Stone to JH, February 23, 1874, JH-BU.
“affection and esteem”: Amasa Stone to JH, April 7, 1874, JH-BU.
“[T]he best of all good luck”: JH to AA, November 28, 1874, JH-BU.
“O you two are”: Flora Stone to JH, February 13, 1874, JH-BU.
“It does not seem to me”: JH to CSH, July 11, 1874, JH-BU.
“dazzling of the eyes”: JH to WR, August 11, 1874, WR-LC.
“I am living a merely”: JH to WR, August 8, 1874, WR-LC.
“She looked like me”: JH to Flora Stone, March 19, 1875, M-WRHS.
“[M]y father-in-law wishes”: JH to AA, November 28, 1874, JH-BU.
“some half hundred”: JH to WR, June 3, 1875, WR-LC.
“I do nothing but read”: JH to AA, December 14, 1875, JH-BU.
“There is apparently”: Henry James to JH, July 21, 1875, HJ-JH 81–82.
“wonderful style”: JH to WR, July 24, 1875, WR-LC.
“I feel as if my sails”: Henry James to JH, August 5, 1875, HJ-JH 84.
“The work is a heavy one”: JH to Schuyler Colfax, July 20, 1875, JH-BU.
“I shall go seriously”: JH to JGN, December 4, 1875, JH-BU.
“partial blindness”: JH to JGN, June 23, 1876, JH-LC.
“enfeebled with illness”: JH to WR, March 27, 1876, WR-LC.
“gilding and black”: JH to Flora Stone, August 14, 1876, M-WRHS.
“If other people”: JH to WR, July 29, 1876, WR-LC.
“He is a fine little”: JH to WR, November 13, 1876, WR-LC.
“a man on one ticket”: JH to WR, March 16, 1876, WR-LC.
“I shall never”: JH to AA, February 20, 1877, JH-BU.
“It will be difficult”: Rutherford B. Hayes to JH, February 27, 1877, JH-BU; a note included in the BU card catalogue citation for this letter mentions that Washington’s hair was embedded in the ring.
“like Stentor . . . like Gargantua”: JH to WR, December 4, 1876, WR-LC.
“very perfect”: Report of the Joint Committee Concerning the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster, 84–85.
“Mr. Stone had great . . . erected this bridge”: Peet, The Ashtabula Disaster, 207–08.
“the very devil”: JH to Amasa Stone, August 23, 1877, WAD-LC.
“There is nowhere . . . keep house myself”: July 24, 1877, WRT-L&L 2:2–3.
“The prospects of labor . . . folly and weakness”: JH to Amasa Stone, August 23 and September 3, 1877, WAD-LC.
“All your investments”: JH to Amasa Stone, September 3, 1877, WAD-LC.
“Burn all my letters”: JH to JGN, February 27, 1878, JH-BU.
“an air of self-contained”: J. Laurence Laughlin, “Some Recollections of Henry Adams,” in Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 268.
“outside the social pale”: HAE 942.
“no monde . . . bad judgment”: HAE, 954, 951, 942.
“We have had a very cheerful”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, May 30, 1878, HAL 2:338.
“with some force . . . upstairs”: JH to JGN, February 27, 1878, JH-BU.
“Our city life”: Mitchell, Nurse and Patient, 54.
“moral atmosphere”: Mitchell, Fat and Blood, in Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell, 83.
“I have been under”: JH to RTL, August 25, 1879, WR-LC.
“[s]erene and tranquil”: JH to Flora Stone, July 10, 1878, M-WRHS.
“I am feeling very well”: JH to CSH, July 24, 1878, JH-BU.
“scarcely anything”: JH to Flora Stone, June 27, 1878, M-WRHS.
“I think a man needs”: JH to Flora Stone, August 11, 1878, M-WRHS.
“the authority of divine”: Lamon, Life of Abraham Lincoln, 157.
“lost all self control . . . crazy as a loon”: Ibid.
“Mr. Lincoln was a man”: Ibid., 480–83.
“Notwithstanding his”: Ibid., 483.
“It is absolutely horrible . . . respectable book”: RTL to JH, April 7, 1872, JH-BU.
“His heart was”: N&H:AL 10:354–55.
“We knew Mr. Lincoln”: N&H:AL 1:xii.
“If I could get”: JH to JGN, March 30, 1879, JH-BU.
“We are having a red hot”: JH to WR, August 25, 1879, JH-LET 2:43.
“They believed in”: Cleveland Herald, August 28, 1879.
“I wish you would do”: WR to JH, April 24, 1879, WR-LC.
“The Congress matter”: JH to WR, October 21, 1879, WR-LC.
“He had the rare”: Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes, 61.
“Interests which I cannot”: JH to William Evarts, October 28, 1879, JH-BU.
“I stand like a hydrophobical”: JH to WDH, November 5, 1879, JH-WDH 40.
“What a pity”: Plischke, U.S. Department of State, 210.
“Today was an important . . . in Lincoln’s time”: JH to CSH, November 25, 1879, JH-BU.
“You don’t sufficiently”: Pennanen, “The Foreign Policy of William Maxwell Evarts,” 96.
“more exacting”: JH to Amasa Stone, December 8, 1879, JH-BU.
“I can hold on”: JH to CSH, December 7, 1879, JH-BU.
“[H]e and I are such belles”: JH to CSH, March 2, 1880, JH-BU.
“I had a rather large”: Holt, Garrulities, 136.
“The iron crown”: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 28.
“With perfection of grace”: De Koven, A Musician and His Wife, 54.
“ ‘Mein Gott!’ ”: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 28.
“He is very nice”: Ibid., 30.
“was looking far more”: JH to Flora Stone, December 20, 1879, M-WRHS.
“boundless ambition”: JH to CSH, January 28, 1880, JH-BU.
“The table was absolutely”: JH to CSH, February 13, 1880, JH-BU.
“[E]very year my”: JH to CSH, January 19, 1880, JH-BU.
“I cannot believe”: Ibid.
“He was loyal”: Wellman, “John Hay: An American Gentleman,” 166, 168.
“Hay seemed to me”: T. C. Evans, “Personal Reminiscences of John Hay: By a Veteran Journalist,” New York Times, July 16, 1905.
“Everything he undertook”: “John Hay,” The Nation 81 (July 6, 1905), 4.
“He is a very agreeable”: JH to CSH, March 7, 1880, JH-BU.
“The policy of this country”: Pennanen, “The Foreign Policy of William Maxwell Evarts,” 343.
“I work not for”: Ibid.
“The presence of such”: Mark Twain to WDH, October 27, 1879, in Smith and Gibson, eds., Mark Twain–Howells Letters, 1:277.
“I am doing this”: JH to CSH, July 23, 1880, JH-BU.
“The Balance Sheet”: “The Balance Sheet of the Two Parties: A Speech Delivered by John Hay at Cleveland, Ohio, July 31, 1880,” pamphlet, 1880, WRHS.
“The Bombardment . . . made havoc . . . The Great Speech”: Newspaper clippings, n.d., JH-LC.
“We had an excellent”: JH to WR, August 5, 1880, WR-LC.
“ ‘Little Breeches’ Hay”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 2, 1880.
“There was a slight”: JH to WDH, October 24, 1880, JH-WDH 52.
“head over heels . . . to resist”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, March 3, 1872, HAL 2:132.
“a perfect Voltaire”: Edel, Henry James, The Middle Years, 29.
“I should say”: JH to Charles Milnes Gaskell, April 27, 1872, HAL 2:135.
“Mrs. Hay is . . . chats for two”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 364.
“mental stimulus”: Parsons, Scattered Memories, 166.
“a serene and classic . . . a climate”: De Koven, A Musician and His Wife, 202–03.
“to learn how the machinery”: HA, Democracy, 12.
“moral lunatic”: Ibid., 174.
“a third-rate nonentity . . . come in time”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, June 14, 1876, HAL 2:276.
pronouncing it “coarse”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 399.
“given up denying it”: MHA to Robert Hooper, December 21, 1880, in Thoron, ed., Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 247.
“chief” of “Clan Ratcliffe”: HA, Democracy, 75.
“At the thought”: Ibid.
“Beware of your”: JH to James Garfield, October 18, 1880, JH-LET 2:51–52.
“[A]s you will see”: JH to WR, October 29, 1880, WR-LC.
“at least to that of”: James Garfield to JH, December 10, 1880, JH-BU.
“To do a thing”: JH to James Garfield, December 25, 1880, Garfield Papers, LC.
“trifling” Ohioan: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 253.
“I find myself low”: JH to WR, March 17, 1881, WR-LC.
“light employment”: WR to JH, March 18, 1881, JH-BU.
“I write only”: JH to James Garfield, May 6, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
“I wish to say”: WR to JH, March 27, 1881, in Cortissoz, Life of Whitelaw Reid, 2:60.
“Well, which did”: New York Tribune, May 4, 1871.
“Have the people”: Ibid.
tried to have expunged: JH to J. Stanley Brown, November 30, 1881, JH-BU.
“Give me a line”: JH to James Garfield, May 6, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
“You are handling”: James Garfield to JH, May 8, 1881, JH-BU.
“a patriot of the . . . pap and patronage”: New York Tribune, May 14, 1881.
“We found little”: Young, Men and Memories, 460–61.
“There is certainly”: New York Tribune, May 17, 1881.
“Roscoe is finished”: JH to WR, May 26, 1881, WR-LC.
“You’ve made a splendid”: WR to JH, June 21, 1881, JH-BU.
“Never speak to me”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 338.
“I did it”: New York Times, July 3, 1881; also Ackerman, Dark Horse, 379.
“A second President . . . its real character”: New York Tribune, July 3, 1881.
“It is almost impossible”: JH to WR, July 10, 1881, WR-LC.
“the people’s President”: New York Tribune, July 4, 1881.
“It can do no good”: New York Tribune, July 7, 1881.
“It is perfectly amazing”: JH to WR, August 13, 1881, WR-LC.
“Please send me”: JH telegram to RTL, July 4, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
“I wish I felt better”: RTL to JH, July 18, 1881, JH-BU.
“I go West tonight”: JH to J. Stanley Brown, September 17, 1881, JH-BU.
“[S]o brave and good”: JH to WR, September 4, 1881, WR-LC.
his “interim-ity”: JH to WR, September 14, 1881, WRT-L&L 1:454.
Hay invested in: Wilkins, Clarence King, 300.
“the official correspondence”: JH to HA, November 5, 1881, HA-MHS.
“[T]he men worshipped”: HAE 1005–06.
“He knew more”: Ibid., 1004.
“It was hard to remember”: JH, “Clarence King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 125–26.
“I never knew such”: MHA to Robert Hooper, March 30, 1884, AP.
“contemptible cur”: Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mr. Twain, 167.
“dynamitic” biography: Ibid., 241.
“I took into account”: JH to WR, September 4, 1881, WR-LC.
“As to Twain”: WR to JH, September 25, 1881, WR-LC.
The review: New York Tribune, October 25, 1881.
“no heart”: Foley, Criticism in American Periodicals of the Works of Henry James, 27.
“It is a remarkable book”: JH to WR, December 16, 1881, WR-LC.
“entirely from . . . moral aspects of our civilization”: New York Tribune, December 25, 1881.
“at some warm sand . . . in my life”: JH to WDH, March 26, 1882, JH-WDH 58.
“pounded and sampled”: JH to HA, April 28, 1882, HA-MHS.
serve as “ballast”: JH to WDH, March 26, 1882, JH-WDH 58.
“a powerful book”: R. W. Gilder to JH, June 30, 1882, JH-BU.
“First, if people”: JH to HA, June 7, 1882, HA-MHS.
“The children have stood”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, July 24, 1882, WAD-LC.
“purple glory”: JH to Samuel Mather, August 31, 1882, M-WRHS.
“I assisted last night”: JH to Samuel Mather, September 8, 1882, M-WRHS.
“by the thousands”: JH to HA, August 16, 1882, M-WRHS.
“repudiate for me”: HA to JH, September 3, 1882, HAL 2:467–68.
“unsight and unseen”: WDH to JH, September 5, 1882, JH-WDH 61.
“The breads & muffins”: CSH to Flora Stone Mather, October 18, 1882, M-WRHS.
“Do you think you know”: JH to HA, October 22, 1882, HA-MHS.
“They wrote it together”: CFW to CSH, January 8, 1883, JH-BU.
“I never saw a great man”: JH to HJ, December 9, 1882, HJ-JH 90.
“dizziness, deep”: JH to S. Weir Mitchell, January 10, 1883, JH-BU.
“Neurasthenia Céphalique”: Ibid.
“quite reasonable . . . the course of his years”: JH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, September 2, 1882, WAD-LC.
“suited the hands”: B-W 5–6.
“His shoes might”: JH, The Bread-Winners, MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Farnham millions”: B-W 42.
“rescue the city”: Ibid., 55.
“a young and thriving . . . velvet lawns”: Ibid., 7–8.
“marked, like himself”: Ibid., 6.
“hearty, blowsy”: Ibid., 22.
“unhealthy sentiment”: Ibid., 24.
“tell your love”: Ibid., 113.
“in several capitals”: Ibid., 121.
“[I]t was a pity”: Ibid., 12.
“with hearty good-will”: The kiss was described thus when B-W was serialized in Century; in the book version he merely “stooped and kissed her”—Ibid., 133.
“famous bridge-builder . . . bonny face . . . pure and noble”: Ibid., 40, 42.
“contented industry”: Ibid., 86.
“oleaginous” Andrew: Ibid., 74.
“the laziest”: Ibid., 82.
“what they called socialism”: Ibid., 215.
“wealth and erristocracy . . . robbers’ cave . . . vampire”: Ibid., 88, 219, 78.
“downfall of the money”: Ibid., 84.
“reddened by night”: Ibid., 7.
In his only published commentary: [JH], “A Letter from the Author,” 795.
“[S]hould I be taken away”: Amasa Stone to JH, January 4, 1883, JH-BU.
“I came abroad hoping”: JH to Amasa Stone, January 11, 1883, WAD-LC.
“If I am able”: JH to Amasa Stone, February 9, 1883, WAD-LC.
“I seem to have lost”: Amasa Stone to JH, March 7, 1883, JH-BU.
“many of the Diplomatic”: JH to Amasa Stone, April 26, 1883, WAD-LC.
“[E]verything combined”: Amasa Stone to JH, February 8, 1883, JH-BU.
“You have had a hard”: JH to Amasa Stone, May 2, 1883, JH-BU.
“I have a long and toilsome”: JH to HA, May 27, 1883, HA-MHS.
equivalent to more than twenty: See, e.g., measuringworth.com/uscompare.
“I thought of you”: Henry James to JH, May 24, 1883, HJ-JH 93.
“the most keenly appreciative”: Art Interchange, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“bang and crimp . . . do not go together”: Ibid.
“Everybody is reading it”: Critic and Good Literature, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“The Sensational Novel”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“corresponds almost exactly”: Advertisement, Washington Post, September 20, 1883, in Vandersee, “The Great Literary Mystery of the Gilded Age,” 249.
literary Sherlock Holmes: Washington Post, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I wish I had”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I long ago forgave”: JH to HA, August 3, 1883, HA-MHS.
“I am glad you did not”: HA to JH, September 24, 1883, HAL 2:513.
“I want to roll”: HA to JH, February 2, 1884, HAL 2:533–34.
“The Bread-Winners . . . has”: Saturday Review 57 (February 2, 1884), 155.
“touches of Fielding”: Ibid.
“a novel of action”: Critic and Good Literature 1, new series (January 5, 1884), 7.
“largeness, a force”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“How this disagreeable”: Literary World 15 (January 26, 1884), 27.
“no sympathies”: Springfield Republic, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“A man of his breeding”: Boston Evening Transcript, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“the anonymous author shows”: Cleveland Leader, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“conceived from”: [JH], “A Letter from the Author,” 794.
“I hardly know . . . written a novel”: Ibid., 794–96.
“the ascription of its authorship”: Cincinnati News Journal, January 6, 1884, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
new subscribers: Roswell Smith to JH, November 5, 1883, JH-BU.
“He glanced in the mirror”: [Keenan], The Money-Makers, 49.
“elegant and refined”: Ibid., 14.
“to shine in the exclusive”: Ibid., 13.
“solidifying his relations”: Ibid., 58–59.
“to keep his hand in”: Ibid., 47.
“If he loved”: Ibid.
“He still persisted”: Ibid., 48.
“slatternly hamlet”: Ibid., 132.
“nothing but business”: Ibid., 69.
“sharp practices”: Ibid., 11.
“round his millions”: Ibid., 112.
“a never-exhausted source”: Ibid., 136.
“not pretty . . . awkward”: Ibid., 50.
“He was in no sense”: Ibid., 168.
“the ideal of her girlish”: Ibid., 169.
“ ‘That’s just what’ ”: Ibid., 83.
“ ‘Gad! what beauty’ ”: Ibid., 174.
“ ‘Millions may cover’ ”: Ibid., 177.
“A robust man”: Ibid., 272, 280–81.
“as an answer”: Advertisement for The Money-Makers, clipping, n.d., WAD-LC.
“savage libel . . . and her daughters”: JH to William Appleton, February 3, 1885, WAD-LC.
“a malicious attack”: William Appleton to JH, January [incorrectly dated; clearly meant as February] 5, 1885, WAD-LC.
“much better in all its parts”: Vanity Fair (Cleveland), “A Weekly Journal of Society, Art, Literature, Music and the Drama,” January 31, 1885, clipping, WAD-LC.
“I eat, sleep, and perform”: JH to S. Weir Mitchell, January 10, 1883, JH-BU.
“I came away from Cleveland”: JH to WDH, September 9, 1883, JH-WDH 21.
“square brick box”: MHA to Robert Hooper, December 16, 1883, AP.
“Neo-Agnostic”: JH to HA, April 27, 1885, HA-MHS.
“God bless you”: JH to CSH, April 22, 1884, WAD-LC.
“James tells me”: JH to CSH, May 1, 1884, WAD-LC.
“beautiful, stylish”: JH to CSH, May 4, 1884, WAD-LC.
“rural sheriff . . . more civilized”: JH to R. W. Gilder, July 11, 1884, Gilder Papers, New York Public Library.
“He was 83”: JH to HA, October 2, 1884, HA-MHS.
“The Doctor scared”: JH to HA, December 20, 1884, HA-MHS.
“I need not tell you”: JH to RTL, January 27, 1885 (misdated 1884), JH-LET 2:87.
“It is beyond doubt”: RTL to JH, April 27, 1885, JH-BU.
“The engagement was not”: N&H:AL 1:186–87.
“[t]his taint of”: N&H:AL 1:187–88.
“It is as useless”: N&H:AL 1:201.
“[T]he market is ready”: JH to JGN, March 2, 1885, JH-BU.
“comprehension and treatment”: R. W. Gilder to JH, July 29, 1885, JH-BU.
When Gilder offered $50,000: Thomas, Portrait for Posterity, 103; Mearns, Lincoln Papers, 79.
“I want you to say”: JH to JGN, July 27, 1885, JH-BU.
“I think I have left”: JH to JGN, August 10, 1885, JH-BU.
“We must not show”: Ibid.
“seize a hill”: JH to HA, September 13, 1885, HA-MHS.
“our chuckle-headed sovereign . . . [H]e chaws more”: MHA to Robert Hooper, January 21, 1883, and December 4, 1881, in Thoron, ed., Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 419, 306.
“wandering soul”: [HA], Esther, 263–64.
“bad figure . . . rough water coming”: Ibid., 199.
“impalpable tyranny”: Ibid., 218.
“Once in harness”: Ibid., 280.
“She is certainly not handsome”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, March 26, 1872, HAL 2:133.
“Is it not enough”: [HA], Esther, 329.
“a woman’s natural tendency”: [HA], Democracy, 90
“How did I ever”: O’Toole, Five of Hearts, 148.
“The business of educating”: [HA], Esther, 317.
“Lot’s wife”: Friedrich, Clover, 309.
“As it is now thirteen”: HA to MHA, March 14, 1885, HAL 2:579.
“Henry is more patient”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 503.
“My wife . . . has been”: HA to Robert Cunliffe, November 29, 1885, HAL 2:639.
“If I had one single”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 503.
“I can neither talk”: JH to HA, December 9, 1885, HAL-MHS.
“Nothing you can do”: HA to JH, December 8, 1885, HAL 2:640.
“Don is behaving”: HA to JH, January 7, 1883, HAL 2:487–88.
“I . . . cannot saddle”: HA to JH, April 8, 1883, HAL 2:497.
“The dogs wept”: HA to ESC, May 18, 1883, HAL 2:501.
“All I can now ask”: HA to ESC, December 10, 1885, HAL 2:641.
“Will you keep it”: HA to ESC, December 25, 1885, HAL 2:645.
“even if it does necessitate”: H. H. Richardson to JH, December 20, 1885, JH-BU.
“It looks like under the sea”: ESC to CSH, July 15, 1886, HA-MHS.
“I have forgotten”: JH to Helen Hay Wadsworth, January 5, 1902, JH-LC.
“Now I am sundered . . . [A]n additional”: JGN to JH, November 25, 1885, JH-BU.
“I do not know”: JH to RTL, January 6, 1886, JH-LET 2:101.
“happy village . . . a mere political camp”: HAE 951, 954.
“all one’s acquaintances”: HAE 951.
“Washington is the place”: O’Toole, Five of Hearts, 94.
“fell daft”: JH to HA, August 29, 1886, HA-MHS.
“[W]e will give you an acre”: JH to WDH, September 12, 1886, JH-WDH 90.
“As to Lincoln”: King, “The Biographers of Lincoln,” 862.
“There is every sign”: The Nation 1114 (November 4, 1886), 375.
“Lincoln lives again”: John Bigelow to JH, January 19, 1887, JH-BU.
“easy, dignified”: WDH to JH, March 1, 1887, JH-LC.
“astonished at . . . fall still born”: William Herndon to Jesse Weik, December 5, 1886, William Herndon Papers, LC.
“the Ann Rutledge . . . with an iron pen”: William Herndon to Jesse Weik, January 2, 1887, William Herndon Papers, LC.
“how damn partisan”: R. W. Gilder to JGN, April 9, 1887, JGN-LC.
“actors . . . tone & generosity”: R. W. Gilder to JGN, January 19, 1887, JGN-LC.
“provided we were to do”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1887, JH-BU.
“I have been passing”: JH to JGN, August 4, 1887, JH-BU.
“thoroughly fit for power”: JH to WR, March 16, 1888, WR-LC.
“I little thought”: ESC to HA, August 16, 1886, HA-MHS.
“Mr. Dobbitt”: HA to Martha Cameron, February 3, 1888, HAL 3:100.
“I am homesick”: HA to ESC, September 7, 1887, HAL 3:76.
“I love you very”: HA to Martha Cameron, September 9, 1888, HAL 3:137.
“Mrs. Cameron”: JH to HA, June 26, 1889, HA-MHS.
“[W]e bowed”: HA to ESC, April 28, 1888, HAL 3:109.
“Your invitation is seductive”: JH to ESC, November 19, 1886, AP.
“I think he must have joined”: JH to HA, July 12, 1894, HA-MHS.
“Yesterday morning”: JH to HA, May 19, 1888, HA-MHS.
“To kiss a woman”: CK to HA, September 27, 1887, HA-MHS.
“If he had a choice”: HA, “King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 172.
“old-gold” natives: Wilkins, Clarence King, 169.
“studies of the lower”: Frank Mason to JH, September 1, 1883, in Wilkins, Clarence King, 320.
“Man in the process”: CK to JH, July 28, 1887, JH-BU.
“blithe blue eyes”: WDH, “Clarence King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 136.
“Miscegenation is”: Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 153.
“I thank God”: Ibid., 203.
“[N]ow in middle age”: CK to HA, September 25, 1889, HA-MHS.
“a rough fell land”: CK to HA, n.d. (August 1886), HA-MHS.
“Buffalo Bill speed”: JH to HA, July 14, 1888, HA-MHS.
“under par”: JH to Samuel Mather, August 4, 1888, M-WRHS.
“air, or water”: JH to HA, July 30, 1888, HA-MHS.
“after the wheat . . . to a smaller scale”: R. W. Gilder to JGN and JH, July 12, 1888, NIC-LC.
“Leave out anything”: JH to R. W. Gilder, July 21, 1888, JH-BU.
“I am perfectly”: JH to JGN, July 22, 1888, JH-BU.