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Pamela Moore (1937-1964) was an American novelist, best known for Chocolates for Breakfast (1956). Although Moore's career was short, the collection contains a wealth of documentation about her life and writings during this period. The papers contain correspondence, clippings, contracts, diaries, drafts, manuscripts, memorabilia, photographs, notebooks, notes, outlines, proofs, school materials, sketch books, and a collection of published editions of Moore's novels.
The collection also includes materials related to Moore's unpublished works, including articles, novels, short stories, plays, and poetry. The collection contains a significant amount of materials for both Prophets Without Honor and Kathy, including contracts, notes, notebooks, outlines, typescripts, and other materials. These are also working files for several other projects that include character sketches, notes, synopses, and manuscripts of varying lengths. There are also typescripts for poems and several short stories, and some materials related to ideas for plays. The collection includes notes, typescripts for both published and unpublished articles, as well as copies of Moore's published articles. In many cases, Moore's unpublished works are untitled, so some manuscripts may be found to be related to one another or to larger novel projects upon further examination of the available records.
The collection includes contracts, outlines, typescripts, setting copies, and other materials related to Moore's published novels. The collection lacks a full typescript for render"italic">The Exile of Suzy Q, but includes working files with typescript pages. For Chocolates for Breakfast and The Pigeons of St. Marks / East Side Story / Diana, which went through some revisions, there are multiple typescripts and revisions in the collection. There are several published editions of all of Moore's novels in the collection, as well, primarily of foreign editions of her works.
The collection also includes material related to Moore's professional activities, including correspondence, contracts, clippings files, financial records, photographs, and memorabilia.
Moore's papers contain many personal materials, including books, correspondence, diaries, financial records, a passport, photographs, receipts, school records, sketchbooks, and travel notes. These records shed light on Moore's relationships with her husband, her family, and with Edouard de Laurot, among others. Later correspondence and notes by others also shed light on Moore's life and work. Lastly, Moore's diaries provide insight into her family life, emotional life, relationships, social life, travel, writings, and ultimately, in her final diary entries, her suicide.
The collection includes printed materials related to Moore's life and work. There are several editions of Moore's published novels; these are primarily foreign editions. The editions include original editions of Moore's novels, as well as foreign editions based upon the Harper Perennial edition of Chocolates for Breakfast (2013). The printed materials also include several books owned by Moore, several of which are inscribed to her, or signed by her. A few of these also relate to equestrians who knew and worked with Moore.
A copy of the catalog prepared the literacy agency for this collection is included with the papers. The catalog provides more detailed subject information and context on correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and other materials in the collection. While the final arrangement and organization of the collection differs from the catalog, it is still a valuable resource.
This collection is arranged in seven series and several subseries.
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This collection is located on-site.
Digital files can be accessed upon request via a secure laptop in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Reading Room. Otherwise, this collection has no restrictions.
Some materials currently housed in a temporary boxes will be reboxed, but all items are accessible at this time. Please note that the final diary has a very fragile binding and should be handled with care.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pamela Moore Papers; Box and Folder (if known); Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
No additional material is expected.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
2017.2018.M104: Source of acquisition--Kevin Kanarek (Represented by Sarah Funke-Butler). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--2018.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers processed by Catherine C. Ricciard in October 2018. A small addition of a few files was processed in November 2019.
Finding aid written by Catherine C. Ricciardi in November 2018, and revised in November 2019.
2018-09-07 File created.
2018-11-02 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2019-11-19 Finding aid was updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi. A few files of additional material were added to the collection.
2022-10-12 Finding aid was updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi. Description of digital materials in Series VIII added.
Pamela Moore was born on September 22, 1937, the daughter of Donald and Isabel Moore (née Walsh). Both of Moore's parents were writers. They had married in 1934, and Isabel's young daughter, Elaine, had adopted Moore's surname after their marriage. By the mid-1940s, the Moores had divorced, and Pamela Moore split time between her father in California and her mother in New York.
While studying at Barnard College, Moore published her first book Chocolates for Breakfast in 1956. The first American edition of the book was published in September 1956, at the start of Moore's senior year. As Moore had planned to spend her senior year in France, she had already left the county when the edition was published in the United States. The novel became a bestseller not only in the United States, but also in Italy and France. The book went into multiple printings and was translated into several languages. The book gained notoriety for its content, which was uncommon for the 1950s, and it was compared to Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan at the time. Moore spent much of the next two years in Europe, returning to the United States in the spring of 1958.
Moore was educated at Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) and Barnard College. While Moore was matriculated with the Class of 1957 at Barnard College, it appears that she received her diploma in 1958 from the records in the collection.
Moore married Adam Kanarek shortly after returning to the United States in 1958. The couple settled in New York, where Kanarek was studying at Brooklyn Law School. They had one son, Kevin, in 1963.
Moore wrote another novel during this period, Prophets Without Honor, but it remains unpublished. Moore had started this novel in Europe, and it was based upon her relationship with Edouard de Laurot, whom she had met on her way to France in 1956. Knopf had bought the novel based upon an outline, but rejected the finished manuscript when it diverged significantly from the original outline and ultimately rescinded its contract.
Moore published three additional novels after Chocolates for Breakfast but none of these matched the success of her first novel. Moore's next novel was rejected by American publishers, and published as Les Pigeons de Saint Marc by Julliard in France (1960) and as East Side Story by Longmans (1961). The book received favorable reviews in France and was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement in the United Kingdom, but it did not receive much notice otherwise. The development of a screenplay for Chocolates for Breakfast was also explored during this period, but ultimately the project did not move forward. Moore's next novel, L'Exil de Suzy-Cœur, was published only in France (1962), and Moore and Kanarek travelled to Europe for its publication. Moore's last novel, The Horsy Set, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1963, but it did not sell well, and did not receive reviews in prominent magazines or literary publications.
Moore continued to write, and began work on a novel tentatively titled Kathy, which had grown out of her revisions to Prophets Without Honor. The novel remained unfinished at the time of Moore's death.
Moore died by suicide on June 7, 1964, at her home in New York City.
This series includes manuscripts as well as related materials such as drafts, notes, notebooks, outlines, and proofs.
Contracts for first editions were originally filed with the corresponding manuscripts, and are included in this series. Additional contracts are filed in Subseries II.2: Contracts.
In general, any related correspondence is filed in the professional correspondence files in Subseries II.1.
This subseries contains contracts, drafts, manuscripts, outlines, and proofs for Moore's four published novels.
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.
Box 1 Folder 1
Box 1 Folder 2
Note on pencil (not by Moore) associates the character of Bill in this story with the character of Barry in the novel.
Box 1 Folder 3
Pages 2-283.
Box 1 Folder 4-5
The original clean version of the typescript carbon that became the setting copy.
Box 1 Folder 6-7
Annotated, with substantial corrections. Pages that were cut are included in the setting copy, with pencil lines through the pages.
Box 1 Folder 8
Pages 117-122.
Box 2 Folder 1-2
This contains about 2" of working material, primarily of inserts and the preface. Substantial annotations. In English and in French.
Box 2 Folder 3-7
Several sets of proofs, with some related cover letters, for the reissue of Chocolates for Breakfast in 2013.
Box 3 Folder 1-3
Several sets of proofs, with some related cover letters, for the reissue of Chocolates for Breakfast in 2013.
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.
Box 3 Folder 4
Box 3 Folder 5
Outline, with 2 pages typescript notes reviewing the outline, and 4 pages of handwritten notes following the outline.
Box 3 Folder 6-7
Wrapper notes that this is the "1st copy of original Pigeons manuscript. No edition was made from this." 244 pp. ribbon typescript on onion skin, largely stamped by Odette Arnaud, and "Exemplaire de Press / Sample Copy."
Box 3 Folder 8-9
Wrapper notes that this is a "Copy of Pigeons manuscript original version from which the Brisith edition was set. 244 pages"
Box 22 Folder 1
"Marked Proof" with proof reader marks in blue ink.
Box 4 Folder 1
Box 4 Folder 2-3
With envelope.
Box 4 Folder 4
Pages 298-307 (Chapter 17) only.
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.
Box 4 Folder 5
Box 4 Folder 6
Box 4 Folder 7
Box 4 Folder 8
This subseries includes the contract and setting copy, both for Simon & Schuster.
Box 4 Folder 9
Box 4 Folder 10
This subseries contains contracts, outlines, drafts, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, and related materials.
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.
Box 4 Folder 11
Box 4 Folder 12
It is unclear which version this note pertains to; it may not be in the collection.
Box 4 Folder 13-14
Box 5 Folder 1
Typescript is for pages 1-155, but some pages are missing.
Box 5 Folder 2
Typescript is for pages 1-122, but some pages are missing. Heavily annotated working typescript and typescript carbon.
Box 5 Folder 3-6
Heavily annotated typescript and typescript carbon.
Box 6 Folder 1-4
Container cover indicates that this version is the longest version. Contains a few corrections.
Box 6 Folder 5
Box 7 Folder 1-2
Box 7 Folder 3-5
Box 7 Folder 6-7
Typescript contains pages 78-482 (Chapter 7-end), only. Clean typescript.
Box 8 Folder 1
Typescript contains pages 78-482 (Chapter 7-end), only. Clean typescript.
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.
Box 8 Folder 2
Tentatively titled "Debut"
Box 8 Folder 3
Box 8 Folder 4
Box 8 Folder 5
Box 8 Folder 6
Box 8 Folder 7
Contains pages 1-77 and 133-155.
Box 8 Folder 8-9
Possibly an early version.
Box 9 Folder 1-8
Several folders of typescripts, carbons, drafts, and "rejects".
Box 9 Folder 9
Box 10 Folder 1
Box 10 Folder 2
Box 10 Folder 3
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.
Box 10 Folder 4-5
Typescripts for first few chapters, synopsis, notes.
Box 10 Folder 6
Primarily character sketches; this does not appear related toKathy.
Box 10 Folder 7
Box 10 Folder 8
Synopsis, some typescript pages.
Box 10 Folder 9
Approximately 1" of manuscript and typescript pages, and notes. Moore notes that she is working on a novel with this title in correspondence to E.P. Dutton (1961). Original enclosure is labelled "Northscape: American Search for Myth beyond Reason and Physical Reality"
Box 22 Folder 2
This is the original enclosure for the Northscape materials, above.
Box 10 Folder 10-11
This was untitled. Includes approximately 150 typescript pages, maps, and notes. It appears that this and Summer Stage might be the same story.
Box 10 Folder 12
Typescripts for the first chapters. It appears that this and Rosemary might be the same story.
This subseries contains drafts and typescripts for several short stories. Many of the stories are untitled, and most are undated.
Box 11 Folder 1
Box 11 Folder 2
Box 11 Folder 3
Title on typescripts is "Battle of Brooklyn Heights." Envelope lists title as "Baby Shoes."
Box 11 Folder 4
There are other versions of this story in the "Short Stories" folder at the end of this subseries.
Box 11 Folder 5
Box 11 Folder 6
Box 11 Folder 7
Box 11 Folder 8
Box 11 Folder 9
Box 11 Folder 10
Box 11 Folder 11
Box 11 Folder 12
Box 11 Folder 13
Box 11 Folder 14
Box 11 Folder 15
Unfinished story.
Box 11 Folder 16
Box 11 Folder 17
Box 11 Folder 18
Box 11 Folder 19
Three short pieces; originally housed in one envelope.
Box 11 Folder 20-21
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 subseries contains one set of poems, written between 1950 and 1952.
Box 11 Folder 22
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."
This subseries contains outlines, a few typescript pages, and notes for two undated plays.
Box 12 Folder 1
A few typescript pages, outline, and notes.
Box 12 Folder 2
Typescript pages, outlines.
This contains materials related to both published and unpublished articles, and includes typescripts, notes, and clippings of published articles.
Box 12 Folder 3
Suggested article for Holiday. See also: "Miscelleneous Works" folder in "Drafts and Fragments" subseries.
Box 12 Folder 4
Copy of the full issue of Playboy; includes Moore's published article.
Box 12 Folder 5
Suggested article for Playboy.
Box 12 Folder 6
Includes typescript, in English, and photocopy of the published version, in French.
Box 12 Folder 7
From envelope labeled, "Articles - Susan"
This subseries contains a few folders of unorganized manuscript pages, notes, correspondence, and other materials.
Some items are clearly related to works elsewhere in Series I, but many are unidentified.
Box 12 Folder 8
This includes various notes. It also includes additional Treasure Mountain maps, related to The Exile of Suzy Q.
Box 12 Folder 9
A few typescript pages, partially in French.
Box 12 Folder 10
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.
Box 12 Folder 11
This file contains various materials, including notes for Prophets Without Honor and other stories, various typescript pages, interview questions, and some miscellaneous correspondence.
Box 12 Folder 12
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 subseries contains notebooks and notes on various subjects.
Box 12 Folder 13
Box 12 Folder 14
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.
Box 12 Folder 15
This notebook contains notes on Bourgeois Realism, Truman Capote vs. French intellectuals, and a draft of story "Pompeii in Red."
Box 12 Folder 16
Notes on articles by Neal Gilkyson Stuart from Ladies Home Journal and Readers Digest.
This series contains correspondence, contracts, clippings files, and items Moore received from her publisher René Julliard.
There are also some professional topics covered in the correspondence, financial, tax, and legal files in Series III: Personal and Biographical Materials.
This subseries includes correspondence with individuals, literary agents, and publishers, on a variety of professional issues. This correspondence was largerly maintained in one alphabetical set. The correspondence also includes condolence letters, mostly from professional contacts, written to Adam Kanarek after Moore's death in 1964, and a few folders of fan mail and correspondence from readers.
The subseries also includes some later correspondence with Adam and Kevin Kanarek on subjects related to Moore.
Correspondence and other materials related to Edouard de Laurot are filed in Series III: Personal and Biographical Materials.
Box 12 Folder 17
Includes correspondence to Moore on reactions to the novel Young Assassins; correspondence on Prophets without Honor
Box 12 Folder 18
Includes a 2011 email to Kevin Kanarek with Arrabal's recollections of Moore.
Box 12 Folder 19
French literary agent.
Box 12 Folder 20
Box 13 Folder 1
Box 13 Folder 2
Correspondence on the reissue and screenplay for Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 13 Folder 3
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..
Box 13 Folder 4
Includes correspondence on the screenplay for Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 13 Folder 5
Includes correspondence with Ursula Winant agent) and Longmans (publisher).
Box 13 Folder 6
Breunig was a professor of French Literature at Barnard College. The 2005 correspondence is between Breunig's nephew and Kevin Kanarek.
Box 13 Folder 7
Burrell was a professor in the History Department at Barnard College.
Box 13 Folder 8
Box 13 Folder 9
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.
Box 13 Folder 10
Box 13 Folder 11
Includes correspondence pertaining to Exile of Suzy-Q.
Box 13 Folder 12
Correspondence relates to Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 13 Folder 13
Includes correspondence pertaining to East Side Story.
Box 13 Folder 14
Includes some correspondence between Gottlieb and Adam Kanarek.
Box 13 Folder 15
Publisher in Argentina.
Box 13 Folder 16
Box 13 Folder 17
Box 13 Folder 18
Literary agent
Box 13 Folder 19
Box 13 Folder 20
Box 13 Folder 21
Correspondence pertains to the submission and rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q.
Box 13 Folder 22
Correspondence pertains to a payment dispute over Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 13 Folder 23
Includes a condolence letter.
Box 13 Folder 24
Box 13 Folder 25
Box 13 Folder 26
Box 19 Folder 11-12
This file contains financial material, particularly related to Mondadori, royalty reports, a few publisher letters, and material relating to Contemporary Authors appearance.
Box 13 Folder 27
Correspondence pertains to the rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q.
Box 13 Folder 28
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.
Box 13 Folder 29
Correspondence regarding the submission and rejection of Exile of Suzy-Q. Includes comments from readers at the company.
Box 13 Folder 30
Literary agent. Includes agreement and correspondence.
Box 13 Folder 31
Box 13 Folder 32
Martin had written an early article about Pamela Moore; Nedelkoff contacted her about his own writings about Pamela Moore.
Box 13 Folder 33
Box 13 Folder 34
Literary agent. Includes correspondence pertaining to Chocolates for Breakfast, including reader's comments from Ladies Home Journal and Women's Home Companion.
Box 13 Folder 35
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.
Box 13 Folder 36
Rejection letter.
Box 14 Folder 1
Reader correspondence; includes some drafts of replies from Moore.
Box 14 Folder 2
One item, an invitation to discuss the manuscript for Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 14 Folder 3
Includes letter from Moore on her time in Paris after the publication of Chocolates for Breakfast. Other correspondence pertains to The Horsy Set.
Box 14 Folder 4
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.
Box 14 Folder 5
Box 14 Folder 6
This subseries contains contracts, signed and unsigned, for various editions and licensing rights to Moore's works. There is also a file of contract copies.
Contracts for first editions remain filed with their corresponding manuscripts in Series I.
Box 14 Folder 7
Box 14 Folder 8
This subseries primarily consists of clippings related to the publication of Moore's novels: many were obtained from a clippings service. These are primarily in English and in French, although there are some items from the German and Italian presses, and others.
There are also some later articles (2000-2014) related to Moore.
Box 14 Folder 9
Clipping on the junior riders at the National Horse Show; includes photograph of Moore.
Box 14 Folder 10
In English.
Box 14 Folder 11
Primarily in French. Includes some clippings in German, Italian, and other languages.
Box 14 Folder 12
Includes short clipping on the book's release in paperback edition. Includes several clippings on the development of the screenplay for the novel.
Box 14 Folder 13
Two issues of the magazine; include mentions of Moore in articles about current writing.
Box 14 Folder 14
Box 14 Folder 15
In English, French, Polish, and Italian. Includes a few typescript translations from French publications.
Box 14 Folder 16
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.
Box 14 Folder 17
In French.
Box 15 Folder 1
In French.
Box 22 Folder 8
In French. Includes a short article on Moore.
Box 15 Folder 2-3
Primarily in English.
Box 15 Folder 4
In English and in French.
Box 15 Folder 5
Article on Moore.
Box 15 Folder 6
Includes Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 15 Folder 7
Magazine includes article on the reissue of Chocolates for Breakfast. In French.
This subseries contains items that Moore received from her publisher René Julliard.
Moore received several items whenChocolates for Breakfastwas published in France: a scarf, a set of dishes, and three matchbooks that were created as promotional items for the book.
Two other items appear to have been issued as "souvenirs" after the death of René Julliard in 1962: a book, titledEn Souvenir de René Julliard(1963), and a paperweight, which has an accompanying card on the stationary of Madame René Julliard (1964).
Box 23
Matchbooks featuring the book's cover and a picture of Moore.
Box Temporary Box C
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.
Box 23
Silkscreen scarf designed by Bernard Buffet, depicting book case of titles published by Julliard in 1956, including Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 20
Book. René Julliard, founder of Julliard, died in 1962.
Box 23
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 series contains personal and family correspondence, diaries, official documents, school files, sketchbooks, travel notes, and a set of financial, tax, and legal files.
Photographs are filed in Series IV: Photographs.
This subseries contains correspondence and related materials such as clippings, magazines, and personal documents.
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.
Box 15 Folder 8
Box 15 Folder 9
Correspondence with Isabel Moore, Pamela Moore, and Adam Kanarek. Also includes a photocopy of a typescript of what are apparently Elaine's notes/quotations from a memoir by Isabel Moore, going back to Isabel's childhood and ending with the end of her marriage to Don Moore.
Box 15 Folder 10
Includes obituaries.
Box 15 Folder 11
Box 15 Folder 12
Box 16 Folder 1
Asher was an MGM publicist and later a fan magazine writer.
Box 16 Folder 2
Box 16 Folder 3
Box 16 Folder 4
Isabel Moore wrote a memoir regarding Pamela Moore, but there are no known copies of the book. According to the "In the Next Room" essay in the Harper Perenniel edition of Chocolates for Breakfast, it was never published, although there were advance advertisements. There is a 9-page memo in the file with quotations and notes from the text in this file.
Box 16 Folder 5
Box 16 Folder 6
Box 16 Folder 7
Seven postcards. One was mailed to Adam Kanarek in 1953; the others are unsent.
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.
Box 16 Folder 8
Photocopies in this file were provided by Jonas Mekas, who retains the originals. This file contains correspondence from Moore to Laurot (given to Mekas for safe keeping) and from Laurot to Mekas, some of which concern Moore.
Box 16 Folder 9
Draft, with notes by Moore.
Box 16 Folder 10
Box 16 Folder 11-12
Various issues.
Box 16 Folder 13
File contains notes, drafts, fragments, receipts, business cards, etc. dating to Moore's time in Paris. There are a few later items: a letter from school friend Barbara Montgomery to Alison Ehringer with her recollections about Moore and Adam Kanarek (1982) and a short postcard from George Morris to Kevin Kanarek (2013).
Box 16 Folder 14
File contains a few pieces of correspondence, and sketches of furniture.
Box 16 Folder 15
File contains correspondence, notes, articles, etc.
Box 19 Folder 10
This subseries contains six diaries, kept between 1948 and 1964. Some diaries also contain clippings, notes, drafts of her writings, and other materials.
There are also a few personal notes in a 1963 notebooks filed in Series I.8: Other Notes and Notebooks.
Box 24
This diary is accessible, but please take care that the lock remains open during use.
Box 25
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.
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.
Box 26
Box 27
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."
Box 28
Diary is used primarily for clippings, and also includes notes and outlines for Kathy.
Box 29
This diary is missing its spine and the binding is quite fragile. It is accessible at this time, but please handle with care.
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.
This subseries contains Moore's drivers' license and passport.
Box 19 Folder 1
Box 19 Folder 2
Moore maintained a set of financial, tax, and legal files that are primarily related to her failure to pay taxes in 1957. This led to ongoing issues with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States. These files include correspondence, forms, subpoenas, warrants, notices of judgment, tax returns, bank statements, royalty reports, and other materials.
A savings account book, a file on medical expenses, and a file of receipts also pertain to Moore's finances during this period.
Box 19 Folder 3-5
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.
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Box 19 Folder 7
Medical bills, and list of medical expenses for 1958.
Box 19 Folder 8
This subseries contains school files from both Rosemary Hall and Barnard College.
The Rosemary Hall files include school notebooks and a school magazine. There is an additional report card in Subseries III.2: Diaries (with the gray "ledger" diary). Moore's class photographs are filed in Series IV: Photographs.
The Barnard College files include correspondence and other materials related to the submission of Moore's senior thesis and her progress towards the completion of her degree, as well as a copy of her senior thesis, other academic papers, notes, a yearbook, and Moore's diploma.
Box 17 Folder 1
With notes on French, Grammar, History, English, etc.
Box 17 Folder 2
Box 17 Folder 3
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.
Box 17 Folder 4
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.
Box 17 Folder 5
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Box 17 Folder 8-9
Includes a working draft and the final copy.
Box 17 Folder 10
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.
Box 22 Folder 6
Box 17 Folder 11
This subseries contains five sketchbooks, and a few additional artworks and drawings. One of the items contains a montage of characters from Chocolates for Breakfast.
Box 18 Folder 33
Pencil sketches and poetry.
Box 18 Folder 34
Figures, faces, hands, legs, etc. Primarily in pencil, one in color.
Box 18 Folder 35
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."
Box 18 Folder 36
3 pastels of a house, 1 of a girl's face. Draft letter in pencil related to Pigeons of St. Marks.
Box 18 Folder 37
Items in ink, pastel, watercolor, and pencil. Various subjects.
Box 18 Folder 38
Small pencil drawing.
Box 18 Folder 39
Various pages of sketches and drawings.
Box 22 Folder 3-5
3 items: a portrait of a girl (in color), a city scene (unfinished, partially in color), and a sketch.
Box 18 Folder 40
Travel notes for the Azores, Lisboa, Gilbraltar, Naples, Pompeii, and Palermo.
This series contains both personal and professional photographs of Moore and Moore's family.
This subseries contains class pictures, contact sheets and prints for several professional photo shoots related to the release of several of Moore's books, portrait photographs, and the obituary issued by APWire Photo.
Box 18 Folder 1
Three items, probably from Rosemary Hall.
Box 18 Folder 2
Includes one photograph, and caption. In French.
Box 18 Folder 3
Four photographs, with captions.
Box 18 Folder 4
Six photographs, stamped Reporters Associés, Paris. Includes one photograph with Edouard Laurot.
Box 18 Folder 5
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.
Box 18 Folder 6
Five photographs and three contract sheets.
Box 18 Folder 7
Three photographs of Moore with a lamp with various liquor labels on the lamp shade.
Box 18 Folder 8
Three photographs of Moore, in one she holds the book Exile of Suzy-Q. File includes related newsletter from Cunard Line.
Box 18 Folder 9
Nine photographs and six contact sheets.
Box 18 Folder 10
Three contact sheets; all images of Pamela Moore.
Box 18 Folder 11
One portrait of Moore (possibly a school photograph) and one portrait of Moore and Kanarek. Photographs are small, approximately 2x2".
Box 18 Folder 12
Photograph and obituary issued by the Associated Press.
This subseries contains snapshot photographs, primarily of Moore and Adam Kanarek. Many of the photographs are dated, but most are unidentified.
Box 18 Folder 13
Three photographs of Moore.
Box 18 Folder 14
Three photographs of Moore at the Arctic Circle, possibly in Finland.
Box 18 Folder 15
Ten photographs, mostly of Moore. A few are identified as "St. Andrew".
Box 18 Folder 16
Ten photographs of Moore, Adam Kanarek, and travel scenes.
Box 18 Folder 17
Seven photographs of Moore and travel scenes.
Box 18 Folder 18
Six photographs of Moore and Adam Kanarek.
Box 18 Folder 19
Three photographs of Moore, and two children.
Box 18 Folder 20
Seven photographs of Moore, Adam Kanarek, and travel scenes.
Box 18 Folder 21
Three photographs of Moore.
Box 18 Folder 22
Five photographs of Moore, possibly in Florida.
Box 18 Folder 23
Three photographs, and seven contact sheets. Photographs of Moore and travel scenes.
Box 18 Folder 24
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.
This subseries contains photographs of Moore's family, as well as additional photographs of Adam Kanarek and some photographs of his family. There are also some unidentified photographs, perhaps of family, in this subseries.
Box 18 Folder 25
Seven photographs and one negative. Includes identified photographs of Elaine Moore Moffat and Cadet Albert Merkle. A few other photographs are unidentified.
Box 18 Folder 26
Black and white portrait photograph of Donald Moore in his army uniform. 3 copies.
Box 18 Folder 27
Two negatives of portrait photographs of Donald Moore in his army uniform. One is in black and white, and one is in color.
Box 18 Folder 28
Photographs of Donald Moore's childhood home in Bellevue, Iowa. Includes a wedding invitation for his parents.
Box 18 Folder 29
Box 18 Folder 30
Box 18 Folder 31
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.
Box 18 Folder 32
This contains a small set of unidentified photographs and related contact sheets, perhaps family photographs.
This series contains various editions of Moore's books, books owned by Moore, and a few additional items that are related to Moore.
This subseries contains several editions of Moore's works. There are original editions, as well as various editions of the reissue ofChocolates for Breakfastby Harper Perennial in 2013.
Box 20
Many pages are uncut.
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Box 20
In German. 2 copies.
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2 copies.
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In Dutch.
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In Norwegian
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In Hebrew
Box 20
Many pages are uncut.
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In Slovenian
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In Korean
Box 20
Many pages are uncut.
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In English.
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Box 20
Many pages are uncut.
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In English.
Box 20
2 copies.
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Box 20
2 copies.
Box 20
2 copies. Both in library binding.
Box 20
Box 20
A printing of No Red Ribbons, by John E. Quirk, and The Horsy Set, in one volume.
This subseries contains seven books owned by Moore. Several of these are signed by Moore, or inscribed by to Moore.
Box 21
Signed by Pamela Moore.
Box 21
Many pages are uncut.
Box 21
Inscribed to Pam by her father, Donald Moore, and signed by Pamela Moore.
Box 21
Signed by Pamela Moore. Includes some annotations.
Box 21
Inscribed to Moore by the author.
Box 21
Box 21
Signed by Pamela Moore.
Box 21
Inscribed to Moore by Gordon Wright, 1959.
This subseries contains three items on subjects that are related to Moore.
Box 22 Folder 7
Includes feature on Ernest Hemingway
Box 16 Folder 16
Box 16 Folder 17
Includes feature on George Morris, who knew Moore. There is an item of correspondence from him to Kevin Kanarek elsewhere in the collection.
This series contains a copy of the literary agent's catalog of the collection available for purchase. The catalog includes detailed information and subject analysis on correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and other materials in the collection.
Please note that most of the interviews described in the catalog on pages 43-44 were never received by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. There is material related to interviews with Jonas Mekas and Michael "Dandy Kim" Caborn-Waterfield in Series VIII: Digital Materials.
Box 19 Folder 9
This is a copy of the catalog created for the collection by the literary agent representing Kevin Kanarek. It contains more detailed content information about many items in the collection. Note that the interviews listed in the catalog have not yet been received at Columbia University.
This series contains a web site capture of the Chocolates for Breakfast website, http://chocolatesforbreakfast.info/, created by Moore's son, Kevin Kanarek. Many (but not all) of the photographs of Moore, as well as editions of the book, are of materials contained in this collection.
The archived site is here:http://chocolatesforbreakfast.info/
Digital files can be accessed upon request via a secure laptop in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Reading Room.
This series includes two audio files and one transcript of Kevin Kanarek's interviews with persons related to Moore. There is an audio file for an interview with Jonas Mekas. There is an audio file and a corresponding transcript for an interview with Michael "Dandy Kim" Caborn-Waterfield (the model for "Andrew Neville" in Chocolates for Breakfast); the transcript is available digitally as a pdf and a printed copy of the file has been placed in Box 19 Folder 13.
The series also includes clips of two interviews on subjects related to Moore. Both were done by outside sources, and may be available elsewhere. The first is a video clip of Courtney Love speaking about how she was named after Courtney Farrel, the protagonist of Chocolates for Breakfast, giving her reading of the story, and discussing the overlap between the book and her own life (from VH1, 2010). The second is an audio clip of Jonas Mekas discussing his association with Edouard (Yves) De Laurot, including de Laurot's wartime past and their short-lived collaboration on Mekas' first film, Guns of the Trees (from Web of Stories, 2013).
Box Laptop
Digital files can be accessed upon request via a secure laptop in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Reading Room.
Box 19 Folder 13