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Catalogues, press cuttings, postcards and other items relating to sculpture, including: an article by critic Calvin Tomkins on Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely, published in The New Yorker, 1962, with annotations by Eric Mottram; catalogue (36pp) produced by the Arts Council for an exhibition of work by American abstract expressionist sculptor David Smith at the Tate Gallery, 1966; catalogue (64pp) for an exhibition, 'British sculptures – attitudes to drawing', at the Sunderland Arts Centre, 1974; a folder of photographs of sculptures by Edward Kirkham and Rod Tye exhibited at Leeds Polytechnic Gallery, 1981, compiled for Mottram by Kirkham; catalogue for an exhibition of paintings by Paul Davie and sculpture by Jim Jack, at the Vortex Gallery, London, c 1986; an invitation and catalogue to an exhibition of work by David Tye at the Anna Bornholt Gallery, London, 1989.

Catalogues, articles, invitations and other items relating to modern and contemporary art, including: a catalogue (60pp) for an Arts Council exhibition of works by US/English artist R B Kitaj (Ronald Brooks Kitaj), 1976; invitation to an exhibition, 'Cold societies', at Leeds Polytechnic, including work by British sculptor Rod Tye, 1981; an essay (5pp) on Kitaj by American poet and art critic John Ashbery, 'Hunger and love', published in Art in America, 1982; offprint article (12pp), 'Homage to Milton Avery', by Milton Kramer, published in  Dialogue, 1983; invitation to a symposium on Oskar Kokoschka, Tate Gallery, 1986; invitation to an exhibition of work by Rod Tye at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, 1984, with a note to Eric Mottram from Tye; invitation to an exhibition of Tye's work at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1986; article by critic Brian Sewell on German art, published in Artscribe, 1986; invitation, leaflet and postcards relating to an exhibition of work by Mark Rothko, Tate Gallery, London, 1987; Christmas card from Rod Tye to Mottram, undated.

Exhibition catalogues and press cuttings relating to modern art, including: catalogue (in Italian) for an exhibition of contemporary art, Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy, 1949 (fragile); catalogues for exhibitions of works by British artist William Scott, at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1962, the Tate Gallery, London, 1972, and the Martha Jackson Gallery, 1973, with a list of exhibits for an exhibition at the Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA, 1992; a book, Art in progress: Alan Davie, by Michael Horovitz (Methuen, 1963); catalogue for an exhibition of the works of German artist George Grosz, 1963; catalogue (in Dutch) for an exhibition of works by Chilean artist Roberto Matta, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1964; New Statesman article, 1965, on an exhibition of works by Josef Albers, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.

Exhibition catalogues, press cuttings and other items relating to modern art, including: catalogue for a USA touring exhibition, 'the Washington color painters', 1965-1966; details of an exhibition of work by American artist Morris Louis, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1966; undated article by John Richardson on the Surrealist movement; invitation to the opening of an exhibition of works by American artist Kenneth Noland, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1966; manuscript letter to Eric Mottram from American Beat poet and artist Jack Micheline, July 1966, requesting money for a painting sold to Mottram; articles by John Perreault published in The Village Voice, 1967, on exhibitions by Paul Harris, Pannagiotis 'Takis' Vassilakis, Les Levine and Willem de Kooning; Observer review by Mary Holland, of an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein, Tate Gallery, London, 1967.

Exhibition catalogues, press cuttings and other material relating to modern art, including: a Time magazine article on Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely, 1970; an original artwork by Ed Schlossberg, 1974, with a note to Mottram; a typescript letter to Eric Mottram from Barbara Putt, Director of the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1976, with a catalogue to the gallery's exhibition, 'an honest patron: a tribute to Sir Edward Marsh'; catalogue for an exhibition at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, '1975-80: work about the North: for Wordsworth: for West Cumbria'.

Albion Village (Iain Sinclair, London): thirty-one catalogues, 1981-1991, covering modern poetry and fiction; two invoices and one manuscript postcard, 13 Oct 1988

Compendium and Duck Soup (Nick Kimberley, London): brochure commemorating the first 25 years of Compendium Bookshop, 1968-1993; catalogues and promotional sheets from Compendium Books, 1972-1994; letters, mainly from Kimberley personally to Mottram, 1971-1982, including invoices and receipts; catalogues, promotional sheets, letters and invoices from Kimberley at Burleigh Parade, London, 1979-1980 and from Kimberley as Duck Soup, 1981-1983

Catalogue (207pp) for a Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition, 'Information', New York, 1970. Also a catalogue (141pp, in French) for an exhibition of the work of Juan Gris, Paris, 1974, with 8 postcards of Gris' works, and an article on Gris by art critic Robert Hughes, published in Time magazine, 1974.

The Poetry Bookshop (Alan Halsey, Hay-on-Wye): duplicator-printed catalogue, 1980, by Anne Stevenson and Michael Farley, Halsey's predecessors at The Poetry Bookshop; thirty-four duplicator-printed catalogues, by Halsey, 1980-1988; addenda to catalogues and some unnumbered catalogues, A4 size, 1980-1984; six offset-litho printed catalogues, 1988-1993; manuscript letters and invoices from Halsey to Mottram, 1980-1984

L. A. Wallrich Books (Larry Wallrich, London, then after 1975, Toronto): ten literary catalogues [1970]-1980; typescript letter, 10 Dec 1969, Wallrich to Mottram

Peter Riley Books (Peter Riley, Cambridge): sixteen catalogues, 1983-1994; seven notes and cards, Riley to Mottram, 1983-1989

Writers Forum indices: Writers Forum check list of publications 1954-1998; Writers Forum catalogue 1992-1994, 2 copies

Catalogues, press cuttings, invitations and other items relating to contemporary art exhibitions, including: catalogue for an exhibition at Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London, 1980, with additional material on the Surrealist movement by John Lyle; invitation to an exhibition of work by Alan Rankle, 1982, with a note by Rankle stating that some pieces were inspired by Eric Mottram's A book of Herne, 1975-1981 (see also 10/1/10); leaflet for a course, 'Art, politics and the machine, 1914-1939', Liverpool University, 1984, with a manuscript letter from Mottram to course organiser Paul O'Keefe; invitation to a private view of work by British artist Stuart Reid, Vortex Gallery, London, 1986, with a manuscript letter to Mottram from the gallery co-founder Irving Kinnersley; photocopy letter (poor quality) from Mottram to British artist Ralph Steadman, 1986, with thanks for signed books and praise for Steadman's work; invitation to an exhibition of work by Paul Davie, Vortex Gallery, 1987; Time magazine article on the death of Andy Warhol, 1987; invitation to an exhibition at The Gallery by The Park, Nelson, Lancashire, 1988; manuscript notes by Mottram on Willem de Kooning's Collected writings, 1988; printed work by Peterjon Skelt, 'Drawings from the Camberwell book of hours', signed by Skelt to Mottram, 1989; personal invitation to Mottram from Scottish artist David Cook to an exhibition at Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath (undated); catalogue (undated) to an exhibition of work by Jim Bird, Kenneth Noland and Arthur Secunda at Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, with an introduction by Nissa Torrents (a former PhD student of Mottram's).

Catalyst: magazine of the independent Left 7 (London, 1991), reports on world politics;

Issue 8, 1991

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Caterpillar 1 (New York, 1967): includes poetry by Gary Snyder, Paul Blackburn, an essay by Norman O. Brown, essay on Wallace Stevens by Cid Corman, essay, 'Rites of participation' part 1 by Robert Duncan and his poem, 'Passages 30';

Issue 2, 1968: includes poems by Clayton Eshleman, Armand Schwerner, and part 2 of the Duncan essay

Caw! Magazine of Students for a Democratic Society 2 (New York, 1968), a magazine for 'poetry, essays, drawings, photographs, visions, thoughts....'

CEAA (Centre for Editions of American Authors) Newsletter 1 (NewYork, 1968): includes articles on Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Henry Thoreau, Emily Dickinson

Cencrastus 2 (Edinburgh, 1980): includes article on David Lindsay's science fiction

Secretary's file. Census forms, completed by some of the patients and staff of King's College Hospital.