All the Great Prizes
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“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.
Chapter 5: Progress of Democracy
“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.
Chapter 6: Plain Language
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, 1
889, 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.
Chapter 7: Millionaires’ Row
“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.
Chapter 8: Roses in a Glue-Factory
“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.