Scope and Content Note
The papers of William Henry Moody (1853-1917) span the years 1879-1916 and consist mostly of bound volumes of correspondence and related material concentrated in the period 1902-1906 when Moody was secretary of the navy (1902-1904) and attorney general (1904-1906) in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Topics include administrative issues, patronage, the Panama Canal, and activities of the fleet. Included are miscellaneous writings, printed matter, and drafts or reports of speeches by Moody.
Correspondents include James Burrill Angell, Ray Stannard Baker, Gist Blair, Jules Boeufve, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Benjamin Chester Chapin, Moses E. Clapp, Waldo Lincoln Cook, George B. Cortelyou, William Crozier, Charles Dick, Charles William Eliot, Stephen B. Elkins, Franklin G. Fessenden, Addison G. Foster, Augustus Peabody Gardner, James Gibbons, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Daniel Coit Gilman, Eugene Hale, John Hay, Hilary A. Herbert, Robert Cochran Hilliard, Julius Kahn, John Kean, William W. Kitchin, Philander C. Knox, Thomas Barton Kyle, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Loeb, John Davis Long, Francis C. Lowell, Wayne MacVeagh, J. T. McCleary, John James McCook, Joseph Robinson. McCready, Porter J. McCumber, Henry McManus, Thomas C. McRae, William D. Meany, Victor Howard Metcalf, George von Lengerke Meyer, Boies Penrose, Charles Henry Robb, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Edward Rosewater, Henry L. Stimson, William H. Taft, Richard W. Thompson, and Booker T. Washington.