Lottie Moon wrote many letters, many of which were published in the Foreign Mission Journal of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. She was also often published in the Baptist newspapers of Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, and occasionally other states. Despite real skill in written expression, she wrote no books or pamphlets. A request from the WMU for a “bright little tract” drove her to adamant refusal. Her only formal article, published in Woman's Work in China, November 1881, concerned the rights and roles of unmarried women missionaries.
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An amazing number of letters were saved by her correspondents—family, women's missionary circles, and others. These have been collected into two main repositories: The Jenkins Library and Archives of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Richmond, Virginia, and another at the Hunt Library and Archives of Woman's Missionary Union, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, Alabama. Both of these archival collections contain much collateral data about Moon. The WMU collections focus on Christmas offering promotion, pamphlets, and biographical studies. Most of these retell the 1927 biography, Lottie Moon, by Una Roberts Lawrence. Also they draw on the eyewitness tracts produced by those who knew her: Mrs. J. M. Gaston, Dr. T. W. Ayers, Mrs. C. W. Pruitt, Mrs. W. W. Adams, and Dr. W. W. Adams. Another useful source is the pamphlet Heavenly Book Visitor, by Eliza Broadus, a contemporary who was the daughter of the one who baptized Lottie. The complete research files for The New Lottie Moon Story by Catherine B. Allen are held by the WMU Archives. The Foreign Mission Board archives are rich in extensive letter files from all North China missionaries during the Moon era. There are displays concerning Moon.
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The original manuscript for Lottie Moon (1927) and some interview notes by Una Roberts Lawrence are at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Library, Louisville, Kentucky. The library also has a Lottie Moon historical room containing Moon's desk and a portrait.
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Helpful references to Moon, her family, and her coworkers are found at the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, Montreat, North Carolina; at the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and at the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.
