The D.L. Moody Digital Archive captures our mission to better understand the life and work of D.L. Moody and to understand the work that God accomplished through him. The archives contain correspondence, journals and diaries, sermon notes, student records, photos, and recollections about Mr. Moody ranging from the 1850s to the mid twentieth century. The completed archives will reveal new sides of Mr. Moody’s private life and public activities, and feature:
- Materials from five core collections
- More than 2,800 letters by or to Mr. Moody, from more than 100 correspondents
- More than 200 handwritten sermons
These documents include full transcriptions and shed light on Moody’s relationships with family, friends, and ministry partners as well his travels around the globe to share the gospel.

“I am wondering if you all are really aware of the many movements that now exist throughout the world that flowed from the ministry of Dwight Moody.” – Billy Graham, personal correspondence with Emma Moody