• "Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay" by John Hay, Tyler Dennett (Editor), Henry S. Commager (Designer) -- This work has been criticized for its omission of key passages in the diaries, many of which are restored in the version of the diaries edited by Burlingame and Ettlinger, next on this list. (Published 1939, Dodd, Mead & Co. Reprinted 1998, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306803402.) Dennett also wrote "John Hay: From Poetry to Politics." (Published 1933, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.)

• "Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay" edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Tuner Ettlinger (Published 1999, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN 0809322625 -- see link to a review below.)

• "Lincoln's Journalist : John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864" by Michael Burlingame (Editor), John Hay (Compiler) -- see a publisher's blurb and a brief online review from Civil War Book News. (Published 1998, Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univeristy Press, ISBN 0809322056.)

  (Burlingame, a professor at Connecticut college, is a one-man Lincoln/Hay scholarship factory. In addition to the two books above he has in process "Lincoln's Ghostwriter: The Letters of John Hay, 1860-1864," and a condensed version of "Abraham Lincoln: A History" by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. He is also working on a book about Lincoln's biographers, as well as many other projects.)

• "Life And Letters Of John Hay" (2 Volumes), by William Roscoe Thayer -- This work was a best-seller when it first appeared in 1915. It is available as a modern reprint for big bucks, but can often be found in used-book stores for much less. (Published 1915, Houghton, Mifflin. Reprinted by Reprint Services Corp., ISBN 0781261988.)

• "John Hay, Author and Statesman" by Lorenzo Sears. (Published 1914, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.)

• "John Hay As a Man of Letters" by Kelly Thurman (Published 1974, Reseda, CA: Mojave Books, ISBN 087881017X.)

• "John Milton Hay: The Union of Poetry and Politics" by Howard I. Kushner and Anne Hummel Sherrill (Published 1977, Boston: Twayne Publishers, ISBN 0805777199.)

• "John Hay" by Robert L. Gale -- from Twayne's United States authors series. (Published 1978, Boston: Twayne Publishers, ISBN 0805771999.)

• "The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918" by Patricia O'Toole -- John Hay and Henry Adams built houses side by side on Lafayette Park in Washington. This book draws on letters and diaries to tell the story of the circle of friends centered on those houses -- influential writers, artists, and political and financial figures. (Published 1990, New York: C.N. Potter, ISBN 0517563509.)

• "Henry James and John Hay: the record of a friendship" by George Monteiro -- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p.147-187), and bibliography: p.191-197. (Published 1965, Providence, RI: The Brown University Press.)

• "John Hay-Howells Letters" edited by George Monteiro and Brenda Murphy -- The correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells, 1861-1905. (Published 1980, Boston: Twayne Publishers.)

• "John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat" by Kenton J. Clymer -- (Published 1975, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.)

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