John Hay (19th century)

[[File:John_Milton_Hay.jpg|thumb|280px|John Hay (1838-1905). ''Courtesy Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and poetry] John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 - July 1, 1905) was an American poet and diplomat.

Life
Hay was born at Salem, Indiana, educated at Brown University, and called to the Illinois Bar. He served in the army, and was one of President Lincoln's secretaries. He then held diplomatic posts at Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, was Ambassador to Great Britain, and was in 1898 appointed Secretary of State. He has a place in literature by virtue of his Pike County Ballads, and Castilian Days (1871).

Poetry

 * Pike County Ballads, and other pieces. Boston: Osgood, 1871; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1881.
 * Poems. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890; London, Publisher: J. Lane, Bodley Head.
 * Complete Poetical Works. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916; New York: AMS Press, 1970.
 * Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle. Austin, IN: Muscatatuck Press, 1963.

Non-fiction

 * Castillian Days. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1871; Boston: Hougton, Mifflin, 1884; Hougton, Mifflin, 1896; London: John Lane, 1897; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903; London: W. Heinemann, 1903.

Letters and journals

 * Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary (edited by Clara Stone Hay & Henry Adams), Washington, DC: 1908 / New York: Gordian Press, 1969.
 * Caroline Ticknor, A Poet in Exile: Early letters of John Hay Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
 * William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay. (2 volumes), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
 * A College Friendship: A series of letters from John Hay to Hannah Angell. Boston: priv. print., D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1938.
 * John Hay-Howellls Letters: The correspondence of John Milton Hay & William Dean Howells, 1861-1905 (edited by George Monteiro & Brenda Murphy (eds.). Boston: Twayne, 1980.
 * Inside Lincoln's White House: The complete Civl War diary of John Hay (edited by Michael Burlingame & John R.Turner Ettlinger). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy University of West Virginia.