The Grace Moore Papers, 1916-1991, contains forty-one items, including newspaper clippings and letters. Many of the letters are to her friend Ben A. Bower from Moore and his friends, Bessie Garrison and Gert.

Series I: Correspondence, 1916-1931, includes 21 letters and envelopes. Fifteen are from Grace Moore to her friend Ben A. Bower of Tennessee. Six of these items date to 1916 or 1917, but the rest are undated. There is one letter from 1916 from Bower to his friend Rolf about Grace, who sure is a queen. The items from 1918 and 1919 are from Bower's friends, Bessie Garrison and Gert. There is also a letter to Mrs. Moore from a London printing company in 1938 and an invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Boyd for the wedding of Moore to Valentin Parera in 1931.

Series II: Newspaper clippings, 1931-1991, contains several copies of articles about Grace Moore's 1937 visit to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and about her death in a plane crash on January 26, 1947. Nine of these twenty items date between 1931 and 1947. There is also a program her the world premier in Knoxville, Tenn., of the movie about her life, entitled So This is Love (1953). Three clippings do not have dates. The rest of the documents are copies of newspaper clippings from 1984 to 1991. All pertain to the opera singer or her hometown Jellico, Tenn., except one from 1987 about the death of Ben A. Bower's friend Bessie Keener Rickens Garrison.

For more information on Grace Moore, see MS.1025 (Grace Moore Scrapbooks, 1875-1955) and MS.1111 (Grace Moore Papers, 1930-1981).