January 3 – March 6, 2008
John Hay Library
Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

In September 1855, seventeen year old John Milton Hay arrived at Brown to pursue his studies. Five and a half years later, with an A. M. from Brown under his arm, he was heading off to Washington as Assistant Private Secretary to the newly-elected President of the United States.

Come and explore the story of John Hay, his time at Brown and his evolving relationship with the man who would help to shape his life’s work and whose public image Hay, in turn, would help to shape for the American people in generations to come.
The John Hay Library is located at 20 Prospect St., Providence, Rhode Island. For more information contact hay@brown.edu.

Image: Studio photograph of Abraham Lincoln with secretaries John Hay (standing) and John G. Nicolay (seated) by Alexander Gardner, November 1863; painted over to resemble the White House work room.