Conkling in, 201
defense of, 44, 60, 85
Duque in, 476–77
in fiction, 10, 195–97
Guiteau in, 204–5
Hay’s house in, 7, 232–33, 235, 239, 242–45, 417, 422, 442–43, 480–81, 496, 497, 524–25, 550
Hay’s returns to, 113–14, 119–20, 176, 183, 185, 239, 244, 361, 389, 404, 407, 412, 440, 465, 506, 519, 521, 524, 540, 541, 546
Hay’s views on, 41–42
hotels in, 9, 45, 75, 185, 186, 550
Lafayette Square in, 7, 49, 121, 244, 245, 247–49, 253, 276, 279–80, 283, 291, 319, 337, 341, 342, 350, 368, 417, 440, 442, 496, 522, 524–25, 541, 550
McClellan’s house in, 49–50, 51, 247
Martínez Silva in, 429–30
murder in, 121, 248
Nicolay’s move to, 160
Reid in, 130
Reyes in, 500–501
Russian embassy in, 466
slavery in, 44, 55
social life in, 45, 114, 176, 178, 186–89, 261, 265, 268
Soldiers’ Home in, 5, 51, 52, 73, 85
State, War, and Navy Building in, 185
Telegraph Office in, 53, 92–93, 336
theater in, 2, 45, 51, 75, 102–5, 248, 268
von Holleben in, 447, 449–53
vulnerability of, 44, 47
Whitney wedding in, 422
see also White House
Washington, George, 14, 15, 82, 260, 423
hairs of, 171, 311
Washington Country Club, 268
Washington Daily Chronicle, 76
Washington Evening Star, 419, 434
Washington Monument, 41, 266, 267, 290
Watterson, Henry, 202–3, 393
Watts, Henry, 119
Webster, Daniel, 247
Weed, Thurlow, 108
Weihaiwei, 354, 355, 362
Welles, Gideon, 56–57, 61–62, 104, 114
Wellman, Walter, 190
West:
Fortieth Parallel Survey in, 148
Hay’s views on, 18–19, 28–29
Western Hemisphere, 9, 445, 529
see also Monroe Doctrine
Western Reserve College, 220
Western Reserve Pioneer Association, 183
Western School, 134–36
“Western School, The” (Hay), 134
Western Union, 156, 163, 220
West Indies, 286, 331
Danish, 372, 401, 422
Wharton, Edith, 423, 551
What Cheer, 26
Wheaton, Colonel, 49
Whigs, 14, 16, 23, 34, 515
Whiskey Ring, 170
White, Henry, 234, 258, 324, 333, 334, 412, 439
as acting ambassador in England, 347, 348
Danish West Indies deal and, 372, 422
Hay’s correspondence with, 325, 347, 348, 361, 362, 369, 370, 373, 391, 392, 394, 401, 449, 455
promotion of, 530
Venezuela affair and, 449, 453
White, Margaret, 324
White, Stanford, 296, 422
White, William Allen, 8, 300, 307, 375
White House, 1–6, 10, 42–49, 51–54, 66, 68–69, 71–74, 82, 85, 98, 102, 104, 169, 337
accommodations in, 42, 245, 335–36, 437, 440
Adams at, 418
as barracks, 44
B’nai B’rith members at, 463–64
Bunau-Varilla at, 479, 493–94
Cromwell-Roosevelt talk at, 472
Hay and Nicolay’s eviction from, 3–4, 99
Hay’s avoiding of, 171
Hay’s mansion in relation to, 244, 245
Hay’s visits to, 5, 114, 176, 264, 524, 532, 540
Lamon at, 93, 180
New Year’s reception at (1863), 63
office-seekers at, 43, 74, 113, 198
as official name, 437
payroll of, 36
redecorating of, 74, 114, 167, 335–36, 437, 440, 448
Roosevelt portrait and, 456, 457
serenades at, 62–63, 94, 98
shabbiness and disarray of, 1–2, 5, 43
Venezuela troubles and, 448–51, 453
waiting room at, 46
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 27, 28
Whitney, Helen Julia Hay, 4, 175, 186, 363, 401, 403, 510, 550, 551
birth of, 166
childbirths of, 458, 523
in Colorado, 257
education of, 264, 273
father’s correspondence with, 458
father’s relationship with, 273
father’s visits with, 464, 505, 540
foreign travel of, 213, 214, 217, 251, 286–88, 303, 315, 321, 324, 332, 335, 542, 544
in New Hampshire, 272, 273, 279, 295, 402
in New York, 271, 273, 534, 540
wedding of, 422, 439, 545
Whitney, Joan, see Payson, Joan Whitney
Whitney, John Hay “Jock,” 523, 550
Whitney, Payne, 401, 422, 439, 464, 505, 523, 550, 551
travel abroad of, 542, 544
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 133
Wilderness, Battle of the (1864), 83
Wilhelm I, Kaiser of Germany, 117, 126–28, 328
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 328, 353, 443–49, 537
Wilson, Henry (Mass. senator), 43
Wilson, Henry L. (U.S. diplomat), 537
Wilson, Woodrow, 412
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of (1861), 48
Windsor Castle, 316–17, 323–24
Winous Point Shooting Club, 252, 258, 280–81, 307
Winter, William, 131
Wisconsin, USS, 440, 441
Witte, Sergei, 362, 363
Wolf, Simon, 462, 464
Wood, Fernando, 98
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 216, 221, 225, 228, 233–34
death of, 286–87
World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair), 283
World’s Work, 13, 385
World War I, 451, 503, 551
Wright, Miss, 110
Wu T’ing-fang, 364, 382
Yale University, 288, 295, 401, 402
Hay’s honorary degree from, 395, 412
Yalu River, 482
Yangtze River, 353, 355, 356
Yangtze Valley, 354
“yellow” journalism, 299, 386
Yellow Sea, 354, 355, 458, 459
Yellowstone National Park, 288–91, 356, 417
Yorktown, siege of (1862), 56, 58
Young, Brigham, 21
Young, John Russell, 32, 131, 202–3
Illustration Credits
Library of Congress: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36
John Hay Library, Brown University: 2, 23, 39
Bridgeman Art Library: 8
Western Reserve Historical Society: 10, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35
Mathew Brady/National Archives: 14
Massachusetts Historical Society: 15, 17, 18, 19
U.S. Geological Survey: 16
Portrait by Anders Zorn: 21
American Museum of Natural History: 37
White House Historical Association: 38
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All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt / John Taliaferro. — 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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