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Additional resources at Brown:
- Works for which John Hay
(1838-1905) is author or contributor
- There are two published versions of John Hay's diaries from the Lincoln
White House: Michael Burlingame and John
Ettlinger, Inside Lincoln's White House : the complete Civil War diary
of John Hay (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997). This
edition came about when Michael Burlingame was introduced to the
transcription of Hay's diaries that had been produced by John Ettlinger, a
long-time staff member of the Brown University Library. Burlingame contacted
Ettlinger, and the two edited and revised Ettlinger's original transcription
for publication.
- Ettlinger's original manuscript
transcription.
- An earlier edition of the Hay diaries was published by Tyler Dennett in
1939: Lincoln and the Civil War in the
Diaries and Letters of John Hay.
- The John Hay Library mounted an exhibition to mark the centennial of Hay's
graduation from Brown in 1958: John Ettlinger, The Life and Works of John Hay,
1838-1905 (Brown University Library,1961).
- In 1990, the Friends of the Brown University Library published a special
issue of Books at Brown devoted to John Hay in commemoration of the 150th
anniversary of his birth.
- The Hay library holds a microfilm copy of the John Hay
papers at the Library of Congress. Microfilm F5702, Reels
1-23.
- The Hay library also holds a microfilm copy of the letters to
John Hay and to Mrs. Hay, May 14, 1897-Dec. 18, 1904 at the Library of
Congress: Microfilm F3850r
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