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Clara Louise Stone Hay thanks President Roosevelt for returning the letters and tells him that she is taking a trip to California “to find sunshine and flowers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-04
Clara Louise Stone Hay is returning most of the letters written between her late husband, John Hay, and President Roosevelt. She is keeping a few personal letters for her children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-02
Clara Louise Stone Hay asks President Roosevelt to send any correspondence he had with her late husband, Secretary of State John Hay, to be published in a book along with his other correspondence. While it would not be appropriate to publish letters sent during Roosevelt’s presidency, she would appreciate any he can share from his time as Governor of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Hay agrees to return the letters if desired and offers to send Roosevelt the letters he wrote to her husband since he became President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-21
Secretary of State John Hay has died unexpectedly of sudden heart failure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-01
Clara Louise Stone Hay has no objections to Houghton, Mifflin and Company’s publication of the volume about her late husband, John Hay, and she thinks the choice of President Roosevelt as author is a good one since he knew her husband well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-14
Clara Louise Stone Hay writes to President Roosevelt to ask him to give Harwood O. Whitney a position. Hay insists that this appointment would have pleased her late husband John Hay. An anonymous note is attached to this letter and most likely refers to this request which cannot be done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-04
Clara Louise Stone Hay, wife of John Hay, writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to plan a meeting and thank her for a blanket.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905
Clara Louise Stone Hay writes to President Roosevelt that her husband, Secretary of State Hay, is not well. Her husband’s doctor in Paris has advised that though his heart is no longer dilated, it is still weak. The doctor recommends that Hay needs to rest in a quiet place without the excitement and troubles of political life and receive no visitors but family. Roosevelt has offered Hay the whole summer off, and the Hays will take advantage of it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-31