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Map: map of the constellations, original print, 1856

Joseph Conrad: Mottram manuscript essay opening 'In the preface to the secret agent...'; Mottram manuscript essay, with one typescript insert, opening 'Conrad's advice to a young writer...'; Mottram typescript essay headed 'Conrad: three novels', referring to The nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon, and The shadow-line; Mottram manuscript notes on individual works by Conrad; partial photocopy of article by Ford Madox Ford 'Conrad and the sea' from The American Mercury June 1935, 169-175; photocopy of V.S. Naipul article 'The darkness of Conrad' from Naipul's The return of Eva Perón (Knopf, New York, 1980), with covering note, 19 May 1990, from correspondent in New York signing 'David'; newspaper cuttings on Conrad, 1958-1982; Portsmouth Polytechnic Library bibliography of articles on Conrad, 1965-1983

Picture Post (London, 22 Aug 1942): contains article on Japan at Pearl Harbour and Port Arthur by William Empson (outsize)

Stamp album covering letters A-G, Abyssinia-Germany, with typical though wide-ranging schoolchild's collection, probably mostly assembled by Mottram in Croydon pre-1940 and certainly pre-1943, including many stamps on covers as inserts

Stamp album covering British Empire with typical though wide-ranging schoolchild's collection, probably mostly assembled by Mottram in Croydon pre-1940 and certainly pre-1943, including many stamps on covers as inserts

Stamp album covering letters G-V, Greece-Venezuela with typical though wide-ranging schoolchild's collection, probably mostly assembled by Mottram in Croydon pre-1940 and certainly pre-1943, including many stamps on covers as inserts

Non-figuration: Mottram manuscript essay headed 'Non-figuration in the American Arts of the 1950s'; flyer listing lunchtime lectures at the Tate Gallery, July 1987, including Mottram with above title, and some correspondence from Richard Humphries of the Tate; offprint of Marshall McLuhan article 'Time, life and fortune' from View 7/3 (New York, 1947) 33-37; Mottram manuscript notes on individual artists and secondary sources; programme notes for National Film Theatre London series 'Art in cinema'; invitation to and flyer for concert 'American Musical Colourists', 1987, including settings of poems by Gary Snyder

Sixth form and undergraduate essays on English Literature by Mottram.

Undergraduate essays by Mottram on English Literature, Pembroke College, Cambridge, some with tutor comments.

Christopher Marlowe: Mottram typescript dissertation 'The meaning of Tamburlaine the Great', in original binding as part of his English Tripos Part 1 at Pembroke College Cambridge, with separate manuscript summary

William Wordsworth 1: Mottram manuscript essay headed 'Wordsworth and the prelude', 19 Oct 1948, written while at Pembroke College Cambridge; manuscript essay on Wordsworth's poem 'Strange fits of passion...'; manuscript essay 'Coleridge and Wordsworth'; manuscript essay 'Some critical statements on Wordsworth'; typescript essay headed 'Wordsworth's poetical career'; typescript essay 'Wordsworth's theory of poetry'; some manuscript and typescript notes on Wordsworth's works and secondary sources; newspaper cuttings 1963-1966 on Wordsworth and his poetry. Also notes on literature lectures taken down by Mottram as an undergraduate, c 1948.

Photocopy of essay, 'Black Orpheus', by Jean-Paul Sartre (originally published Paris, 1948 as the preface to an anthology of African and West Indian poets, edited by Leopold Sedar-Sengher), published in translation in the Massachusetts Review

Horizon 117 (London, 1949), edited by Cyril Connolly: article, 'the literature of extreme situations' by Albert Votaw, emphasised

Leaflets and published guides to locations in Italy [Mottram visited in 1949], including Perugia, Florence and Milan.

William Carlos Williams, interviewed by Jack Gerber, 1950, includes some poems, details on insert slip;

capacity: 60 mins

condition: 'needs plenty of upper register ... and plenty of volume' i.e. faint

Greek theatre: Mottram manuscript essay 'A note on myth and symbol in 'Phèdre'', with notes on Aeschylus and Sophocles, and printed bibliography and list of essay questions as supplied at Pembroke College

Faust: Mottram manuscript essay 'The myth of Faust' for Pembroke College, 3 Feb 1950; manuscript notes on versions of the legend

Photograph of students of Pembroke College, Cambridge, including Mottram on far right, front row (outsize)

Trans Formation: Arts, communication, environment, a world review 1/1 (New York, 1950): includes articles by Buckminster Fuller, Le Courbusier, Piet Mondrian;

Issue 1/3, 1952: includes articles by Werner Heisenberg and Merce Cunningham

Two postcards, dated 1950, from friends or neighbours of Mottram