Box 7
Container
Contains 21 Results:
Letter from Hay with Photo
File — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of notes that professor Kenton Clymer used to write his first book: John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975). Hay was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, then Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98), and Secretary of State (1898-1905). As Secretary of State, he presided over the annexation for the Philippines, and for a few months was in charge of US policy in the Philippines. A few months after war broke out between the...
Dates:
created: 1860-1905; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2017
