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Preferred Citation:

John Hay Letters to Stella Gregg, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gift

Biographical Information:

Hay was Assistant private secretary to Abraham Lincoln. Secretary to American legation in Paris. Charge d'affaires at Vienna. Secretary of legation at Madrid. Author, with John Nicolay, of Abraham Lincoln: A History. Assistant Secretary of State. Ambassador to Great Britain. Secretary of State. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Scope and Contents

Letters; 1897-1904; written to Miss Stella D. Gregg, Carthage, Ill. concerning gifts of money from Hay to Miss Gregg and to her father.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Gregg, Stella D