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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73025353
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Eugene Gano Hay, lawyer, were a gift and bequest of Hay to the Library of Congress between 1926-1929.
The papers of Eugene Gano Hay were arranged and described in 1971. The finding aid was revised in 2013.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Eugene Gano Hay is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Eugene Gano Hay are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: container number, Eugene Gano Hay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Eugene Gano Hay (1853-1933) span the period 1770-1933, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the years 1877-1933. The papers consist of general correspondence, diaries, financial papers, family papers, speeches, writings and related material, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. The collection documents Hay's career as a prosecuting attorney, temporary secretary to Benjamin Harrison, United States district attorney of Minnesota, unsuccessful congressional candidate, general appraiser of Merchandise on the Board of United States General Appraisers, and advocate and worker for the Republican Party. The collection is organized into seven series: General Correspondence; Diaries and Daily Record Books; Financial Papers; Family Papers; Speeches, Writings, and Related Material; Printed Matter; and Miscellany.
Hay was a prolific letter writer who corresponded with leading political figures of his era. Included among the state and national officials represented in the General Correspondence are Calvin Coolidge, Albert Baird Cummins, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Frank B. Kellogg, Philander C. Knox, John Lind, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. The General Correspondence also contains family and personal correspondence illustrating Hay's political views and social perspective from the 1870s to the 1920s. A small number of letters belonging to Hay, his wife, and his wife's family, the Farquhars, is in the Financial Papers and the Family Papers.
The Speeches, Writings, and Related Material series reveals Hay as a man of broad intellectual interests. Material of an autobiographical nature is especially valuable in describing political events of which he had personal knowledge, including his account of Benjamin Harrison's campaign in 1888 to win the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
Of particular interest in the collection is material concerning two early anti-trust cases in which Hay was involved as a district attorney and private lawyer. He participated in the
Trade reciprocity between the United States and other countries, particularly Canada, is also a topic of importance. Hay was an enthusiastic advocate of reciprocity, especially in his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for a congressional seat from Minnesota in 1902.
The collection contains a large number of printed pamphlets, booklets, magazines, and journals, as well as many newspaper clippings. Of particular interest in the printed matter is a medical handbook dating to approximately 1770.
This collection is arranged in seven series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73025353
Letters received and copies of letters sent, memoranda, and miscellaneous attachments.
Arranged chronologically.
Bound volumes of letters sent.
Arranged in rough chronological order.
Diaries, notebook, address book, appointment books, and other daily account books. Arranged chronologically.
Arranged chronologically.
Banking material, business correspondence, checkbooks and account information, income tax files, and miscellaneous financial matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein chronologically.
Business correspondence and financial papers concerning Eleanora Farquhar Hay and the Farquhar family. Also correspondence and miscellany relating to Farquhar family members, Mrs. Hay, and Eugene Gano Hay. Includes material from a European trip of the Hays.
Arranged by type of material.
Handwritten, typewritten, and printed articles and other writings by Hay, including remarks and speeches.
Arranged alphabetically by title with untitled, unidentified, and miscellaneous writings and notes filed at the end of the series.
Pamphlets, booklets, magazines and journals, Congressional hearings, court documents, copies of the
Arranged alphabetically by title. Bound volumes are filed at the end of the series.
Miscellaneous unbound printed items, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.
Organized by type of material.