Scope and Content Note
The papers of Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908) span the years 1852-1908 and consist chiefly of letters received by Moulton from prominent literary figures in the United States, England, and Europe, including some with holograph poems. Material is in French as well as English. The collection also includes correspondence of the English poet John Westland Marston and his son Philip Bourke Marston
Other correspondents include Hamilton Aïdé, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Matthew Arnold, James M. Barrie, Bernard Berenson, Phillips Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, George Washington Cable, Lydia Maria Child, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot (1819-1880), Havelock Ellis, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Horace Greeley, Richard S. Greenough, Louise Imogen Guiney, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Frank Harris (1855-1931), Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, William Dean Howells, Henry Irving (1870-1919), Henry James (1843-1916), Robert Underwood Johnson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), Edwin Markham, Julia Marlowe, Guy de Maupassant, Helena Modjeska, William Vaughn Moody, Walter Pater, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912), Ernest Rhys, James Whitcomb Riley, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bram Stoker, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Baron Alfred Tennyson, William Roscoe Thayer, Charles Dudley Warner, James McNeill Whistler, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Oscar Wilde, and Israel Zangwill.