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Articles about architecture, including: manuscript notes, undated, on The culture of cities (1938), by Lewis Mumford; article, ‘Return of historicism in architecture’ by architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner, published in The Listener, 1961; article on American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, published in the New Yorker, 1966; publicity leaflet for an exhibition on American architect Louis Kahn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966; article, ‘Let’s build in lines’, by Lionel March, published in New Society, 1967; booklet, ‘What I am trying to do’ (2 copies), by Buckminster Fuller, 1968; copy article, ‘This is your grand strategy’, by Buckminster Fuller, published in El Corno Emplumado, 1969.

Press cuttings on architecture, including: article, ‘The campus: architecture’s show place’, published in Time, 1970; article, ‘The architectural metaphysics of Louis Kahn’, by Susan Braudy, published in the New York Times, 1970; extract from Time Out, 1972, on the transport, community services and infrastructure of London, 1972; article on Hungarian American designer Marcel Breuer, published in Time, 1973; article, ‘Lewis Mumford, philosopher of the city’, by Martin Filler, published in Dialogue, 1983; catalogue for an exhibition, ‘House on the borderline’, held at White Columns Gallery, New York, 1984, with a map of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo, New York; obituary for Lewis Mumford, published in the Guardian, 1990.

Writing on art by Eric Mottram and others, including: a book, Graham Sutherland, by Edward Sackville-West (London, Penguin, 1943); manuscript review (5pp) by Mottram of Feeling and form by Susanne K Langer, c 1953; brochure for an exhibition, 'Seven Indian painters in Europe', Gallery One, London, 1958; text relating to a Gregory Fellowship exhibition, ICA Gallery, London, 1958; New Yorker article (33pp) on American sculptor Richard Lippold, 1963; text of a talk, 'Auto-destructive art', given by Gustav Metzger at the Architectural Association, London, 1965, with additional annotations by Mottram; New York Times Book Review articles, 1965, on American art; a book, Flypaper, by Norman Ogue Mustill, 1967.

Writing about art, including: New York Times article by art critic John Canaday, 'What do you mean you're against Order?', 1970; a booklet produced by the State University of New York at Buffalo, 'East Island petroglyphic art', c 1978; typescript article by Eric Mottram, 'Tom Hines on Kandinsky', 1974; an article (9pp) by Toni del Renzio, 'Robert Cottingham: the capers of the signscape', published in Art and artists, 1975; article (in French, 5pp) by Sabine Wolf and Michel Giroud, 'Raoul Housmann: Dadasophe', published in Art Paris, 1975; leaflet for a performance by Filipino artist David Medalla, 'Tatlin at the funeral of Malevitch', at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, 1976; an offprint article (9pp), 'The "White writing" of Mark Tobey', by John Russell, originally printed in Dialogue, 1977; catalogue (in Italian, 54pp) to the 1978 Venice Biennale exhibition; an article (49pp) on Jackson Pollack, published in Arts magazine, 1979, with annotations by Mottram; press cutting, undated, on city wall art.

Articles by Liddell Hart on Berlin situation in Today, The Sunday Independent and Royal United Service Institute Journal

Articles relating to climate change, including: ‘Man, nature and the ecological perspective’, by Michael Lacey, published in American Studies, 1970; ‘Is the global climate changing?’, by James Hays, published in Insight USA, 1973; ‘Clues to a viable future’, by William Irwin Thompson, published in Dialogue, 1979; 'Society, science and climate change’, by William Kellogg and Robert Schware, published in Dialogue, 1983; ‘The heat is on’, published in Time, 1987; ‘The future as image of the past’, by William Irwin Thompson, published in Quest [1978].

Four newspaper articles: ‘Thirty eight witnesses’ by A M Rosenthal, on the apathy of the neighbours to a murder, from New Society, 10 Sept 1964; review of a book, Gambling, by Alan Wykes, from The Sunday Times, 20 Sept 1964; review of The Corrupted Land, by Fred J Cook, on social morality in modern American, from Book Week, 10 April 1966; article from City Limits, 20-26 Nov 1981 on ‘Transport Law in London’, by Beatrix Campbell.

Articles on education, including: ‘From teaching to living’, by T E Beaman, published in New Society, 1964; ‘Class, not IQ, gets you into grammar school’, by Thomas Pakenham, published in the Observer; ‘The collapse of student activism’, by C Van Woodward, published in Dialogue, 1975; pamphlet (29pp), c 1967, on radical student activism, produced by BCM Situationist International; booklet, ‘The United Nations development programme: activities and achievements’, 1981; article by Colin McCabe on media studies as an academic discipline, published in the New Statesman, 1993; article by Jonathan Romney on rap music, published in the New Statesman, 1993; article on the consequences of the murder of Jamie Bulger, published in the New Statesman, 1993; letter by Professor F R Leavis, on university degrees, published in The Sunday Times, 1993.

Press cuttings relating to evolution, including: review by William Irvine of Darwin’s century: evolution and the man who discovered it (1958); ‘Natural selection after 100 years’, by Sir Gavin de Beer, published in The Listener, 1958; ‘The discontinuous inheritance’, by Sir Ronald Fisher, published in The Listener, 1958; ‘The natural history of man’, by C D Darlington, published in The Listener, 1958; ‘A Darwin century survey: of monkey and men’, by Jacquetta Hawkes, published in the Observer, 1959; ‘Darwin’s evolution’, by Sir Gavin de Beer, published in The Listener, 1962; ‘Darwin’s illness’, by P B Medawar, published in New Statesman, 1964; article, ‘Gradualism, punctuated equilibrium and the Origin of Species’, by Frank H T Rhodes, published in Nature [1971]; ‘Not so selfish genes’, by Marek Kohn, published in New Statesman, 1994, with additional underlining by Mottram.

Articles relating to Herman Melville, including: review of Merlin Bowen’s, The long encounter, from the TLS, 1961; review by Richard Chase of Warner Berthoff’s The example of Melville, from the New York Times Book Review, 1962; reviews of The letters of Herman Melville, 1960; article about Melville by V S Pritchett, from the New Statesman, 1958; article, ‘The Antarctice whaling dispute’, by Montgomery Hyde, from the Unilever Quarterly, 1964; article, ‘Melville’s globe-mutiny: Moby Dick deciphered?’, by Viola Sachs, 1974; newsletter of the Melville Society, 1977; article, ‘Melville’s problematic “being”’, by Sanford Marovitz, 1982; review of The affair of the Somers, by Philip McFarland, from the New York Times Book Review, 1985; article, ‘Israel Potter: common man as hero’, by Hennig Cohen, 1986.

Press cuttings and other printed material relating to jazz, including: article, ‘Stomping at Newport’, by Nat Henstoff, from Esquire magazine, Nov 1960; booklet, ‘Jazz Expo ’67: The Newport Jazz Festival in Britain; list of current jazz releases, October 1963; article about electric guitars by Sue Steward, from Time Out, 12 Dec 1980; leaflet about ‘Birth Ballet Chorale’ at the Janz Studio, London, c 1974; Arts Council leaflet, ‘Contemporary Music Network 1976 - 77’; offprint from Dialogue, 1978, ‘Dizzy Gillespie: A life in Jazz’ by Gary Giddins; article about Philip Glass from Time magazine, 1 Aug 1988; review by Morris Dickstein of Woody Guthrie: A Life, by Joe Klein and Alfred Knopf, from The Nation, 8 Nov 1980; press cutting about Elvis Presley, from the Socialist Worker, 5 Dec 1981.

Copy articles, in French, on Jean-Paul Sartre, from Magazine Literaire, and from L’ere desruptives, by Jean Daniel.

John Ashbery, studies: John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch: a conversation (Interview Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1966); 'The New York school of poets: the serious at play' by Stephen Koch from The New York Times Book Review 11 Feb 1968 (outsize); 'The craft of John Ashbery', an interview by Louis A. Osti from Confrontation 9 (New York, 1974) 84-96; 'How to be a difficult poet' by Richard Kostelanetz from The New York Times Magazine, 23 May 1976, 18-31, 2 copies; 'A poet of the transitory' by Edmund White Dialogue 11 (Washington, 1978) 126-128; photocopy of interview-article 'John Ashbery in Warsaw', by Piotr Sommer, from Quarro, 17 May 1981, 13-15 (outsize); 'John Ashbery: an interview' by David Remnick Bennington Review (Vermont, Sep. 1980) 14-21; 'The desire to displease' by Peter Porter from Sunday Observer, 31 May 1981; 'The experience of experience: a conversation with John Ashbery' by A. Poulin, Jr., from Michigan Quarterly Review 20 (1981) 242-255; 'An interview with John Ashbery' by John Koethe, from Sub Stance (1983) 178-186; photocopy of interview-article 'John Ashbery: the art of poetry' by Peter Stitt from Paris Review 33 (1983) 30-59 (outsize); 'The diffracting diamond: Ashbery, romanticism and anti-art' by Alan Williamson in Introspection and contemporary poetry (Harvard University Press, 1984), 116-148, 199-200; 'The poetry of John Ashbery' by John Bayley in Selected essays (Cambridge University Press, 1984), 33-44; 'Cocksure muse' by Peter Porter from The Observer 21 Oct 1984, with covering note from Mary Joan Connors; 'The pleasures of poetry' by David Lehman from New York Times Magazine 16 Dec 1984, 62-92; 'John Ashbery: an interview with John Murphy' Poetry Review 75/2 (London, 1985) 20-25; 'The Leonore Marshall Prize' by John Hollander, from The Nation, 19 Oct 1985, 386-388; 'Getting rid of the burden of sense' by James Fenton The New York Times Book Review, 29 Dec 1985, 10 (outsize)

Kenneth Rexroth, articles and studies: photocopy of typescript transcript of broadcast by Rexroth, called 'The Beat Generation'; Rexroth article 'What's behind the revolt in our colleges' from Swank 8/4 (1961); photocopy of Rexroth's 'San Francisco letter' from Evergreen Review, not dated; photocopy of Rexroth article 'The new American poets' from Harper's Magazine, Jun 1965; Rexroth article 'Ids and animuses' from New York Times Book Review, 17 Mar 1968; photocopy of typescript essay '"Transcendent architecture": Buddhist influences on the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth' by Thomas Evans [1991]; typescript letter, 27 Appr 1985 from Linda Hamalian to Mottram seeking assistance in a biography of Rexroth; newspaper cutting with review of Rexroth from The Nation, 6 Jun 1966

Articles about law enforcement and the penal system, including: book reviews from the New Statesman, 10 Oct 1875, Wings and Hunters: The origin of the Black Act, by E P Thompson, and Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in 18th century England, by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaigh and E P Thompson; article on the ‘May Report’ on the prison system, New Statesman, 9 Nov 1979; extract from Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic, 1973 on civil disobedience; Time magazine article on the policy beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles, 1991; New Statesman article on prison privitisation, by Jolyon Jenkins, 1991.

Articles about Liddell Hart and his career, with some related correspondence, including 'Liddell Hart' by Lt Col Thomas Alfred Lowe in Defence, the Territorial Magazine, Apr 1939; 'Le Capitaine B H Liddell Hart' by Col E Léderrey in Revue Militaire Suisse, May 1956, with typescript translation; 'Liddell Hart: the theory and art of war', thesis submitted for bachelor of arts degree to Princeton University, USA, by Thomas B Arnold, Apr 1959; 'Clausewitz by Liddell Hart' by Professor Dr Werner Hahlweg in Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, May 1959, with typescript translation of article on the discovery of a letter by Karl Maria von Clausewitz, dated 23 May 1806, in Liddell Hart's library; typescript extract from autobiography of (Margaret) Storm Jameson Journey from the north (Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1965) on impressions of Liddell Hart; 'Liddell Hart and blitzkrieg' by Jeffrey A Gunsburg in Armor (Mar-Apr 1974). 1 file

Articles on Liddell Hart and his career, with some related correspondence, including 'Liddell Hart' by Lt John W Walden, US Navy, in Military Review (Sep 1954); typescript text of lecture by Dr Jay Luvaas entitled 'The four careers of Liddell Hart', 1962; typescript dated Apr 1964 on 'Liddell Hart, prophet or diagnostician' by W Kendall Myers, student at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research, USA; 'The captain who teaches generals' by Luvaas in Midway (1964). 1 file

Articles about music and musicians, including: copy article ‘Something to think about: Ornette Coleman’, 1982; articles about Bob Dylan, John Lennon and David Bowie; article from Esquire magazine, about the fans of Motley Crue, 1984; review of Nowhere to run: the story of Soul Music, from the Nation,13 Oct 1984; review of Jonathan Cott’s book Dylan, from the Nation, 3 Nov 1984; review of books about the Rolling Stones from The New York Times Book Review, 11 Nov 1984.

Articles about music and musicians, including: photograph of the score of ‘Music#27’ by Charles Ives; article about Bob Dylan, from Time magazine, 10 June 1985; article about operas by Philip Glass, from Time magazine, 1 July 1985; NFT programme for the film, Round Midnight, 1986; article from TV Times, about the Beatles, 1987; articles about British jazz drummer John Stevens, 1994, including , 'John Stevens: away-mutual benefit', by Mike Herbaria, [a former student of Mottram's].

Articles about music, including: article, 'Hot Swing and the dissolute life: Youth, style and popular music in Europe 1939-49’ by Steve Willett, 1989; article about Italian composer Bruno Moderna, from the Independent, 20 Oct 1990; A pamphlet produced by punk record label Thrashing Mad Enterprises’, 1991; leaflet about Phililp Jack’s ‘Vinyl Requiem - The String Section’, 22 Nov 1991; article (in French) on ‘L’age D’or de Saint-Germain-des-Pres’, 1991; programme for a concert series, ‘Moving forward’, South Bank, London, 1992; article about Scott Joplin by Michael Walsh, from Time magazine, 3 Aug 1992.