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Title: Abraham Lincoln's secretaries
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954 Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954
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Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Miss Nicolay: I herewith return thecopy you gave me, towhich I have given thelast three nights. I congratulate you onthe success with whichyou have done this lastpart of the work. I thinkyou have made a re-markably clear, con-nected and vivid narra-tive of Chapter 37. Inregard to the last chap-ter, Lincolns Fame, Iread your fathers ad-dress first, and thoughtthat that would make anadmirable ending by it-self, but on reading yourchapter, I see you havetaken the greater partof mine and added to ityour fathers address. Ithink that is all right ifyour prefer it that way;but do you not thinkthat taking so much ver-batim from the Historywill necessitate callingyour work on the titlepage, an abridgment ofthe original work? Still,this is only for yourown consideration.Sincerely YoursJohn HayIn a letter dated Thurs-day Helen Nicolaythanked Colonel Hay forhis comments concerningthe manuscript:Dear Colonel Hay: I am afraid you brokeyour neck over thosechapters, in order tosend them back quickly.
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;i)ll.N \W\ VS St.CltKT.VRY Ol STATi From the John Hay Library of Brotvn UniversityJohn Milton Hay—1838-1905 American statesman, born in Salem, Indiana. Private secre-tary to Abraham Lincoln (1860-65). U. S. Assistant Secretaryof State (1878). Emerged (in 1870-90) as an importantliterary figure, with publication of his Pike County BalladsAnd Other Pieces (1871), Castilian Days (1871), The Bread-Winners (pub. anon. 1884), Poems (1890), and with JohnNicolay, Abraham Lincoln, A History (10 vols., 1890), Abra-ham Lincoln — Complete Works (2 vols., 1894 and expandedto 12 vols, in 1905). U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98). U. S. Secretary of State (1898-1905); negotiated Hay-Pauncefote treaty (1901) providing for construction ofPanama Canal and superseding Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Thank you for the trou-ble you have taken, andthe suggestions youmade. I fear there mustbe some mistake how-ever, there are so few ofthe latter. I am glad you thinkthe address will do foran ending. I wo

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