William Vaughan Moody Papers

Description

American poet, playwright and teacher. Contains correspondence, manuscripts of poems and plays, notebooks, themes written while a student at Harvard, biographical material, reprints, newspaper clippings, reviews of Moody's plays, playbills and programs. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Norman Hapgood, Edwin Markham, Harriet Monroe, Charles Eliot Norton, Edmund C. Stedman, and publishers. Also includes a diary of European trip with Ferdinand Schevill (1897).

Rights

Cleared

Source

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.MOODYWV

Alternative Title

William Vaughan Moody Papers

Documents in this collection

Jane Addams to William Vaughan Moody, February 9, 1901

Addams thanks Moody for his recent poem, "On the Soldier Fallen in the Philippines," published in the Atlantic and discusses her inadequate reaction to the war dead.

Poetry War