Florence Hayward

Florence Hayward (1855 – July 4, 1925) was a St. Louis, Missouri, writer, best known for her Travel Letters.

Biography Florence Hayward was born in 1855 in New Mexico, the daughter of Col. George A. Hayward, of the Confederate Army. He moved to St. Louis after the war, with his family. After public school, Florence Hayward graduated from Mary Institute after already contributing to Washington University's student paper. Hayward was twice the president of the Alumnae Association of Mary Institute.

Hayward was offered a position with The Spectator after she wrote an article for an editor of a St. Louis paper who was ill. She held this job for two years before her family knew.

Hayward set off and in London she found they had just recovered from the Boer War. Instead of beginning with the manufacturers she went to the King to request the Queen's Jubilee presents should be exhibited. At the next meeting of President D. R. Francis and the commissioners in London, it was her pleasure to inform them of her success in reserving valuable exhibits. Her next move was to go to Italy and get the Pope to give his consent to making a Vatican exhibit, which had never been done before. Through Cardinal Satolli arrangements were consummated.

The Florence Hayward Papers, 1880–1941, are hosted at the Missouri Historical Society.