Letters of Frank Millet to Charles Warren Stoddard: May 10, 1875 - January 3, 1900

See also:

Jonathan Ned Katz: Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912

A chapter about Millet and Stoddard's intimacy from Katz's book Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001), establishes the context for and analyzes the sexual content of the letters.

The Letters

OutHistory is grateful to Claude Gruener for transcribing these often hard to read letters, which are collected in the Syracuse University Library. Note that the year was usually added to the letters in pencil (by Stoddard?) after the month and day, and is sometimes conjectural.

Letter 1: Millet to Stoddard: May 10, 1875

Letter 2: Millet to Stoddard: May 26, 1875

Letter 3: Millet to Stoddard: May 30, 1875

Letter 4: Millet to Stoddard: June 9, 1875

with post script dated July 10

Letter 5: Millet to Stoddard: June 18, 1875

Letter 6: Millet to Stoddard: July 3, 1875

Letter 7: Millet to Stoddard: July 10, 1875

Letter 8: Millet to Stoddard: about July 12, 1875

Letter 9: Millet to Stoddard: August 13, 1875

Letter 10: Millet to Stoddard: August 15, 1875

Letter 11: Millet to Stoddard: August 25, 1875

Letter 12: Millet to Stoddard: October 19, 1875

Letter 13: Millet to Stoddard: November 15, 1875

Letter 14: Millet to Stoddard: December 2, 1875

Letter 15: Millet to Stoddard: December 8, 1875

Letter 16: Millet to Stoddard: January 15, 1876

Letter 17: Millet to Stoddard: July 9, 1876

Letter 18: Millet to Stoddard: February 21, 1877

Letter 19: Millet to Stoddard: March 11, 1877

Letter 20: Millet to Stoddard: April 24, 1877

Letter 21: Millet to Stoddard: June 24, 1877

Letter 22: Millet to Stoddard: May 7, 1878

Letter 23: Millet to Stoddard: August 23, 1884

Letter 24: Millet to Stoddard: May 23, 1885

Letter 25: Millet to Stoddard: June 23, 1885

Letter 26: Millet to Stoddard: 1886?

From: "Russell House, Broadway, Worcesteshire"

Letter 27: Millet to Stoddard: March 25, 1887

Letter 28: Millet to Stoddard: June 18, 1887

Letter 29: Millet to Stoddard: October 11, 1892

Letter 30: Millet to Stoddard: 1882 - 1883

From: [Stamp] "F.D. Millet"

From: "Office of D. H. Burnham . . . ."

Letter 31: Millet to Stoddard: January 3, 1900

More See also:

Archibald Butt

James Gifford: Archie Butt

An original, personal, and scholarly essay on Archibald Butt, Millet's bachelor friend, who also died on the Titanic.

Archibald Butt: September 26, 1865 – April 15, 1912

A brief biography, under construction

Charles Warren Stoddard

Claude M. Gruener: Charles Warren Stoddard, 1843-1909

Charles Warren Stoddard Timeline: August 7, 1843 - present

A chronology of Stoddard's life, friends, acquaintances, and works, and the works about him.

Charles Warren Stoddard: Bibliography

Francis Davis Millet

Francis Davis Millet: Bibliography

A bibliography of major sources on the life of Millet: UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Francis Davis Millet: November 3,1846-April 15, 1912

A brief biography, under construction

Francis Davis Millet Timeline: November 3, 1846 - present

A chronology of Millet's life, under construction

Francis Davis Millet to Alfred Parsons: On Board R.M.S. "Titanic", April 11, 2012

Marie Grice Young and Ella Holmes White

Marie Grice Young and Ella Holmes White: Same-Sex Intimacy on the Titanic, 1912