Pamela Moore Papers, 1939-2018, bulk 1950-1964

The first American edition of Chocolates for Breakfast was published by Rinehart in September 1956, with the French edition being published by Julliard soon after, in November. A second French edition, the "nouvelle édition" that included new revisions by the author, was published in 1957.

This subseries includes a contract, drafts, excerpts, typescripts, and the setting copy for the first American edition. There is also a file of working material for the Nouvelle Edition, which came to the collection from Eddie de Laurot, the son of Edouard de Laurot. In addition, there are proofs and related correspondence for the Harper Perennial Edition, published in 2013.

There are some early short stories related toChocolates for Breakfastin Subseries I.3: Short Stories.

The working title for this novel wasThe Pigeons of St. Marksand it was published asLes Pigeons de Saint Marcby Julliard (1960). It was published asEast Side Storyby Longmans in the United Kingdom (1961) and later asDianaby Dell in the United States (1964). The Dell contract (1963) is included in this subseries.

The subseries includes an outline, sample copy, and the setting copy and the long galleys for the Longmans version. The revised manuscripts were possibly circulated to American publishers, such as Fawcett.

This subseries includes the contracts with Julliard (1961) and Paperback Library (1963), as well as a cover proof, and a file with various typescript pages, corrections, and drawings of maps. The collection does not include a full typescript or proof for this book.

There is related material in Subseries I.7: Drafts and Fragments.

This subseries includes the contract and setting copy, both for Simon & Schuster.

Prophets Without Honorwas to have been Moore's second novel. Knopf purchased the novel based upon an outline submitted by Moore and Laurot, but ultimately rescinded its contact in 1959. Both the contract and the rescindment are in this subseries.

The subseries also includes outlines, various typescripts, and a portion of the final version (Chapter 7-end, only).

There is related material in Subseries I.7: Drafts and Fragments.

Kathygrew out of Moore's revisions toProphets Without Honor; the novel was unfinished at the time of Moore's death.

The early title of this work wasTho' All the World Betrays Thee, and it is also referred to asKathy on the RocksandMy Sister Kathy. The working contract from Dell for the book (1964) uses the titleDebut.

This subseries includes outlines, notebooks, notes, as well as various carbons, drafts, typescripts, and "rejects."

There is material related toKathyin Subseries I.8: Other Notes and Notebooks, and Subseries III.2: Diaries.

This subseries contains materials related to other unfinished novel projects. Most of these, with the exception of "Rosemary", had working titles. It is unclear if any of these were related to Moore's other writing projects.

This subseries includes outlines, character sketches, synopses, and typescript chapters and pages.

There is additional material related to some of these projects in Subseries III.2: Diaries.

Title on typescripts is "Battle of Brooklyn Heights." Envelope lists title as "Baby Shoes."

There are other versions of this story in the "Short Stories" folder at the end of this subseries.

Unfinished story.

Three short pieces; originally housed in one envelope.

This is a set of fiction stories. The set includes "Veteran," "Just an Incident," "The Girl with the Long Hair," "Easter Sunday," "Charm Boy," "The Land," "Haven," "The Lost Gold Mine," "A Full Love," "Bad Actor," and "Motherland." "Bad Actor" is an early story related to Chocolates for Breakfast.

This is a set of poems. The set includes "To the Midnight Caller," "The Night," "Night's Call," "My Evening," "Reason," "A Love of Youth," "Letter to My Fiance," and "La Nuit Vient."

A few typescript pages, outline, and notes.

Typescript pages, outlines.

Suggested article for Holiday. See also: "Miscelleneous Works" folder in "Drafts and Fragments" subseries.

Copy of the full issue of Playboy; includes Moore's published article.

Suggested article for Playboy.

Includes typescript, in English, and photocopy of the published version, in French.

From envelope labeled, "Articles - Susan"

This includes various notes. It also includes additional Treasure Mountain maps, related to The Exile of Suzy Q.

A few typescript pages, partially in French.

Includes "A Little Slavic Village in the Heart of Manhattan," a Veronica Saga family tree, and some unidentified typescript pages, possibly related to the unpublished Rosemary novel.

This file contains various materials, including notes for Prophets Without Honor and other stories, various typescript pages, interview questions, and some miscellaneous correspondence.

Includes various unidentified typescript pages and notes. A few relate to Professor Mundy and Prophets Without Honor, and there are notes on Simon and Sylvie.

This notebook contains some notes related to Kathy, as well as serving as a personal notebooks with notes on her childbirth classes, shopping lists for the hospital, etc.

This notebook contains notes on Bourgeois Realism, Truman Capote vs. French intellectuals, and a draft of story "Pompeii in Red."

Notes on articles by Neal Gilkyson Stuart from Ladies Home Journal and Readers Digest.

Includes correspondence to Moore on reactions to the novel Young Assassins; correspondence on Prophets without Honor

Includes a 2011 email to Kevin Kanarek with Arrabal's recollections of Moore.

French literary agent.

Correspondence on the reissue and screenplay for Chocolates for Breakfast.

Photograph. Includes copy of Peter Basch Photographs: Beauties of the World, Fawcett, 1958. Includes negative for a partially nude image of Moore (unpublished); contact sheets for this photo shoot and other Basch photographs of Moore are filed in Series IV: Photographs..

Includes correspondence on the screenplay for Chocolates for Breakfast.

Includes correspondence with Ursula Winant agent) and Longmans (publisher).

Breunig was a professor of French Literature at Barnard College. The 2005 correspondence is between Breunig's nephew and Kevin Kanarek.

Burrell was a professor in the History Department at Barnard College.

This file contains several condolenece letters to Adam Kanarek following Moore's death in 1964. There are others in the individual correspondence files. The file also contains a bill for Moore's funeral and related expenses from Campbell Funeral Home.

Includes correspondence pertaining to Exile of Suzy-Q.

Correspondence relates to Chocolates for Breakfast.

Includes correspondence pertaining to East Side Story.

Includes some correspondence between Gottlieb and Adam Kanarek.

Publisher in Argentina.

Literary agent

Correspondence pertains to the submission and rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q.

Correspondence pertains to a payment dispute over Chocolates for Breakfast.

Includes a condolence letter.

This file contains financial material, particularly related to Mondadori, royalty reports, a few publisher letters, and material relating to Contemporary Authors appearance.

Correspondence pertains to the rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q.

Lenz was Moore's teacher and friend at Rosemary Hall. The character of Ms. Rosen in Chocolates for Breakfast is based on Lenz. Correspondence includes her reaction to the novel, a letter of condolence, and a later letter to Adam Kanarek regarding his wish to put a stone marker on Moore's grave.

Correspondence regarding the submission and rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q. Includes comments from readers at the company.

Literary agent. Includes agreement and correspondence.

Martin had written an early article about Pamela Moore; Nedelkoff contacted her about his own writings about Pamela Moore.

Literary agent. Includes correspondence pertaining to Chocolates for Breakfast, including reader's comments from Ladies Home Journal and Women's Home Companion.

Contains typescript of a review of Gombrowicz's Ferryduke and a carbon of Moore's letter to the editor of the Sunday Book Review. Includes a clipping of the published letter to the editor.

Rejection letter.

Reader correspondence; includes some drafts of replies from Moore.

One item, an invitation to discuss the manuscript for Chocolates for Breakfast.

Includes letter from Moore on her time in Paris after the publication of Chocolates for Breakfast. Other correspondence pertains to The Horsy Set.

Copies of Jaguar magazine from December 1964 which includes an article on Moore. Also includes correspondence from Smith to Adam Kanarek with a litter from Don Fine (editor at Dell) to Smith with his recollections of Moore.

Clipping on the junior riders at the National Horse Show; includes photograph of Moore.

In English.

Primarily in French. Includes some clippings in German, Italian, and other languages.

Includes short clipping on the book's release in paperback edition. Includes several clippings on the development of the screenplay for the novel.

Two issues of the magazine; include mentions of Moore in articles about current writing.

In English, French, Polish, and Italian. Includes a few typescript translations from French publications.

These items were originally together in one plastic enclosure, filed in the clippings files. This folder includes typescripts of interview questions and answers, quotations, carbons of a few rejection letters from publishers, and a handwritten copy of an article published in Brazil.

In French.

In French.

In French. Includes a short article on Moore.

Primarily in English.

In English and in French.

Article on Moore.

Includes Chocolates for Breakfast.

Magazine includes article on the reissue of Chocolates for Breakfast. In French.

Matchbooks featuring the book's cover and a picture of Moore.

French publisher René Julliard gave items to Moore to celebrate release of Chocolates for Breakfast in France, including this set of plates. The plates include signatures of authors and artists related to the publishing house. Moore's set has 11 8" plates. There should be 12 plates; #5 is missing from this set.

Silkscreen scarf designed by Bernard Buffet, depicting book case of titles published by Julliard in 1956, including Chocolates for Breakfast.

Book. René Julliard, founder of Julliard, died in 1962.

Lucite paperweight with green feather pen and René Julliard's signature. It includes handwritten card in French, indicating that the paperweight was created in memory of Julliard, who died in 1962.

This subseries contains correspondence involving members of Moore's family. The correspondence is between Moore's family and Pamela Moore, Adam Kanarek, and Kevin Kanarek, with the exception of a few items sent to Isabel Moore by Jerry Asher.

This series includes correspondence written during Moore's lifetime, as well as later correspondence between her family members.

The subseries also contains a few other items – clippings, draft cards, postcards, and a life insurance policy – related to individual family members.

This subseries contains correspondence from Moore to Laurot, as well as clippings, and several issues of Film Culture magazine.

The correspondence file for Laurot is a photocopy of the original file kept by Jonas Mekas; Mekas retains the original file. This file contains correspondence from Moore to Laurot (given to Mekas for safe keeping by Laurot) and from Laurot to Mekas, some of which concern Moore.

The subseries also contains clippings on Laurot and Mekas, and copies of Film Culture magazine, which they co-founded in the 1950s.

This subseries also contains a few miscellaneous files kept by Pamela Moore. There is also a file of correspondence with journalists and friends in France. One of these dates to Moore's time in Paris. These files include business cards, clippings, correspondence, notes, drafts, etc.

Some portions of this were used as a creative journal, and the portion from 1956 was to record her emotions during the writing of Chocolates for Breakfast. Items inserted loosely inserted into the front of the diary have been removed and housed in an appropriate folder. See Box 17, Folder 12.

Includes items inserted loosely inserted into the front of the diary: report card from Rosemary Hall, typescript of the story, "Veteran," with teacher's comments and grade, and clipping of Moore's first byline in the Greenwich Times. The diary itself is in Box 25.

Covers Moore's travels and her relationship with her family during 1956. Also includes telegrams from Moore's father, letters from Adam Kanarek, and other items. Includes draft and notes for "Heat."

Diary is used primarily for clippings, and also includes notes and outlines for Kathy.

This diary served both as a diary and a writing notebook. It includes drafts and notes for Kathy, Northscape, and several short stories and plays. There is a table of contents in the front of the volume. This volume also contains her last diary entries: entries and notes about her pregnancy and the birth of her son, and entries from 1964, including an entry for June 7th. This volume was used as evidence by the Office of the Medical Examiner, and the printed form sticker from the office is still affixed to the front of the volume.

File includes correspondence, forms, subpoenas, warrants, notices of judgment, tax returns, bank statements, receipts, and royalty reports. These are related to Moore's failure to pay income tax in 1957.

Medical bills, and list of medical expenses for 1958.

With notes on French, Grammar, History, English, etc.

This file includes correspondence and other records pertaining to Moore's progress towards the completion of her degree, including the completion of her senior thesis. The file includes transcripts, reports of standing, and bursar's receipts, as well as correspondence with Professors Burrell and Mundy, as well as the Registrar.

This file includes a history exam with a note from Professor John Mundy, papers, notes, and pages 136-150 of a corrected typescript of Prophets Without Honor.

Includes a working draft and the final copy.

Moore is listed with the Class of 1957 but there is no school portrait of her in the yearbook. There is an unidentified photogaph of her on page 64.

Pencil sketches and poetry.

Figures, faces, hands, legs, etc. Primarily in pencil, one in color.

Pencil portraits. One nude, a few include two figures. One entitled, Figures, faces, hands, legs, etc. Primarily in pencil, one in color.The Co-Eds."

3 pastels of a house, 1 of a girl's face. Draft letter in pencil related to Pigeons of St. Marks.

Items in ink, pastel, watercolor, and pencil. Various subjects.

Small pencil drawing.

Various pages of sketches and drawings.

3 items: a portrait of a girl (in color), a city scene (unfinished, partially in color), and a sketch.

Travel notes for the Azores, Lisboa, Gilbraltar, Naples, Pompeii, and Palermo.

Three items, probably from Rosemary Hall.

Includes one photograph, and caption. In French.

Four photographs, with captions.

Six photographs, stamped Reporters Associés, Paris. Includes one photograph with Edouard Laurot.

Seven photographs. These may have been cut out from contact sheets for the Reporters Associés images. They are not stamped, but some of the images are the same.

Five photographs and three contract sheets.

Three photographs of Moore with a lamp with various liquor labels on the lamp shade.

Three photographs of Moore, in one she holds the book Exile of Suzy-Q. File includes related newsletter from Cunard Line.

Nine photographs and six contact sheets.

Three contact sheets; all images of Pamela Moore.

One portrait of Moore (possibly a school photograph) and one portrait of Moore and Kanarek. Photographs are small, approximately 2x2".

Photograph and obituary issued by the Associated Press.

Three photographs of Moore.

Three photographs of Moore at the Arctic Circle, possibly in Finland.

Ten photographs, mostly of Moore. A few are identified as "St. Andrew".

Ten photographs of Moore, Adam Kanarek, and travel scenes.

Seven photographs of Moore and travel scenes.

Six photographs of Moore and Adam Kanarek.

Three photographs of Moore, and two children.

Seven photographs of Moore, Adam Kanarek, and travel scenes.

Three photographs of Moore.

Five photographs of Moore, possibly in Florida.

Three photographs, and seven contact sheets. Photographs of Moore and travel scenes.

Various contact sheets, cut into strips. These include images of Moore, Adam Kanarek, Kanarek's children (Moore's stepchildren) and possibly other family members, and travel scenes.

Seven photographs and one negative. Includes identified photographs of Elaine Moore Moffat and Cadet Albert Merkle. A few other photographs are unidentified.

Black and white portrait photograph of Donald Moore in his army uniform. 3 copies.

Two negatives of portrait photographs of Donald Moore in his army uniform. One is in black and white, and one is in color.

Photographs of Donald Moore's childhood home in Bellevue, Iowa. Includes a wedding invitation for his parents.

16 photographs and one contact sheet. This file contains photographs of Adam Kanarek, as well as some photographs of his family in Poland. Other photographs are unidentified.

This contains a small set of unidentified photographs and related contact sheets, perhaps family photographs.

Signed by Pamela Moore.

Many pages are uncut.

Inscribed to Pam by her father, Donald Moore, and signed by Pamela Moore.

Signed by Pamela Moore. Includes some annotations.

Inscribed to Moore by the author.

Signed by Pamela Moore.

Inscribed to Moore by Gordon Wright, 1959.

Includes feature on Ernest Hemingway

Includes feature on George Morris, who knew Moore. There is an item of correspondence from him to Kevin Kanarek elsewhere in the collection.