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William Faulkner, Mottram essays mainly in typescript format: typescript, 1971 book William Faulkner, paginated i-vii, 1-102, as returned subsequent to publication by the publishers, Routledge and Kegan Paul; typescript essay on Absolom, Absolom, presented as chapter 1 of a larger work and paginated 1-15; typescript essay on Go down, Moses, presented as chapter 2 from a larger work and paginated 16-42; typescript essay headed 'Faulkner' and opening 'In 1945 as William Faulkner's books...', 3 pages; typescript and manuscript essay headed 'William Faulkner-Introduction and The sound and the fury'; typescript essay headed 'Introduction' and opening 'In "Delta Autumn"...'; typescript and manuscript essay headed 'William Faulkner; and opening 'The absence of a sense of an alternative future...'

William Faulkner, Mottram essays in manuscript form: manuscript essay or extended sequence of items opening 'In 1955, Faulkner told the students...'; two manuscript essays about 'the Snopes clan', creations of Faulkner, the second essay on white paper being apparently an enlarged revision of the first, on pink paper: manuscript essay headed 'Faulkner' and opening 'Light in August is Faulkner's eighth novel...'; sequence of essays on Faulkner's work, with titles 'William Faulkner-"As I lay dying" (1930)', 'Yoknapatawpha County...' and '"The sound and the fury" II'; second sequence of essays on Faulkner's work, with titles 'I. "The sound and the fury"', 'II, Faulkner, "The sound and the fury", and "Novels that are"' and 'V. "Light in August" 1932'

William Burroughs, Mottram studies: Mottram essay on Cities of the red night (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1981), beginning with five pages of manuscript, then switching to typescript with the incorrect heading, 'continuation of page 5 of The Place of Dead Roads'; manuscript summary of Mottram's early involvement in teaching 'Beat Generation writers'-retrospective item, apparently headed 'Boulder-not used', 3 sides ; essay opening "In an interview published in the first issue of Departures...", and relevant to Burroughs Place of dead roads (Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984), 2 pages; Mottram manuscript essay on The place of dead roads (Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984), opening 'In 1964 Burroughs published a sheet of newsprint...', and including a photocopy of 'The Coldspring News'; three further copies of 'The Coldspring News' (1964); typescript essay, headed 'The Place of Dead Roads', and opening 'In 1964 Burroughs published a sheet of newsprint...', with what appears to be its sequel, headed 'continuation of page 5 of The place of dead roads; separate typescript and manuscript essay, headed The place of dead roads and opening '-initial statement on the original title-The Johnson Family...'; two loose pages bearing separate comments on The place of dead roads; Mottram 3-page essay headed 'Instructions and ?pleasures for the neotonic tadpole'; Mottram manuscript article, paginated A-H, headed 'Hopes and despairs for the neotonic tadpole', which includes analysis of William Burroughs' short story 'The ghost lemurs of Madagascar' (New Statesman 19, 26 Dec 1986) (note: 'neotonic tadpole' is a reference to the human condition originating in 'The Four Horsemen', p. 161); Mottram manuscript essay on Burroughs, opening with the 1987 Lawrence Kansas celebrations of his 73rd birthday; typescript and manuscript essay on The Western Lands (1987), comprising one page of introduction, and six pages of text; Mottram manuscript essay headed 'Intro. to WSB', 4 pages; manuscript essay on Burroughs opening, 'Since this pioneering study...', apparently composed 1991, a provisional transcript is provided, 26 pages; manuscript and typescript of essay headed '"The self-sustaining oasis": William Burroughs since 1975' as delivered at Keele University Symposium, 1994

William Burroughs, Mottram studies: Mottram manuscript essay on Burroughs' book The wild boys (Grove Press, New York, 1972), opening 'The guerrilla army of boys....'; separate Mottram manuscript note on The wild boys; newspaper cuttings, 1972, mainly reviews of the book; manuscript essay by Mottram on Burroughs' works, and principally on Naked lunch (1959), 26 pages, paginated 41-65 with a note of publications 1976-1978 (unpaginated), then 6-16; manuscript of Mottram essay to be published as 'William Burroughs: survivalist in a Manichean world' in The Final Academy: statements of a kind ed. Roger Ely, David Dawson, Genesis P. Orridge (London, 1982), 30-34 ; first stage typescript version of the essay with four inset quotations on opening page; typescript carbon and photocopy of typescript with some manuscript alterations, representing a further stage in the completion of the essay; copy of The final academy (London, 1982) with Mottram article in situ and with pass and programme of events associated with the publication

William Burroughs, Mottram studies: copy of William Burroughs: the algebra of need (Intrepid Press, Buffalo, New York, 1971) with corrections marked and typescript insertions in place; typescript carbon headed 'Part two', being a continuation to form a new enlarged publication on Burroughs; typescript letter, 26 Jun 1974 from Marion Boyars asking for delivery of the manuscript of the new book; typescript letter from Philippe Mikriammos, 5 Jan 1976 seeking help on points in his translation of the Mottram book into French; corrected galley proofs of Mottram's revised book, William Burroughs: the algebra of need (Marion Boyars, London, 1977) (outsize); unsourced offprint of review of Mottram's 1977 book on Burroughs

Tom Pickard, Mottram studies: photocopy of Mottram article 'Tom Pickard' published in Lip 1 (1972), with some manuscript corrections by Mottram; manuscript notes on unsourced article about the Morden Tower, Newcastle on Tyne; typescript carbon of new article, incorporating preceding material on Morden Tower, and material from Lip article, to make new piece published in Poetry Information 18 (1978); completed version in typescript and collage of the Poetry Information version of the article; Mottram manuscript note on 'The Jarrow March', Pickard radio item, 1976; typescript transcript of interview of Pickard by Mottram at The Poetry Society 23 Oct 1972; typescript of Mottram introduction for Pickard's reading at Compendium Books, Camden Town, 28 Mar 1994

T. S. Eliot, material by Mottram: typescript essay headed 'Strange gods: T.S. Eliot-the South, America and conservatism'; correspondence, 1989-1990, on delivery and possible publication of this item; two untitled manuscript essays on Eliot, apparently linked, one opening 'In A commentary that Eliot published in...1926...', and the other 'In the 1930s, because of the gains in state control...'; typescript and manuscript essay headed 'T.S. Eliot: critical bases, social and literary'; typescript essay headed 'T.S. Eliot and culture', with manuscript material following; Mottram manuscript essay 'The new critics' with frequent reference to Eliot; privately printed essay 'The waste land: from "ur" to "echt"' by Harry Levin, posted to Mottram in Dec 1972; typescript carbon of Mottram letter, 5 Feb 1973 to Levin, thanking him for the essay and commenting on it; Levin's typescript response to Mottram, 12 Feb 1973

Robert Duncan, Mottram studies: four typescript copies of Mottram essay 'Heroic survival through ecstatic form: Robert Duncan's Roots and branches', published 1979 in Robert Duncan: scales of the marvellous ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid (New Directions, New York, 1979); three lists of possible cuts to the essay for publication purposes, including some critical assessment of the essay by one of the editors, Ian Reid; typescript letters from the editor, Robert Bertholf, chiefly about the Mottram essay, 10 Feb 1975-3 Jan 1979, 16 items; typescript letter, 2 Jun 1983 from Michael Cuddihy of Ironwood magazine, about possible Mottram essay on Duncan's politics; typescript letter, 27 Oct 1986 from Bertholf informing Mottram of Duncan's deteriorating health

Robert Duncan, Mottram studies: Mottram typescript essay, with numerous manuscript emendations, headed '6. Robert Duncan' (possibly part of a larger work); review article of Duncan's Bending the bow (New Directions, New York, 1968), with New York Times Book Review's own article attached; manuscript essay on green paper on Bending the bow; manuscript essay on white paper on Bending the bow; typescript essay 'Heroic survival through ecstatic form: Robert Duncan's Roots and branches' published in Robert Duncan: scales of the marvellous ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid (New Directions, New York, and George J. McLeod, Toronto, 1979), 116-142; manuscript draft and typescript version of essay 'Robert Duncan: "The possibility of an adequate history and of a poetics of event"', as published in Talus 3 (London, 1988) 118-148; manuscript biographical account opening 'Robert Duncan was born in Oakland, California...', with biographical notes headed 'Robert Duncan 1919-1988'

Robert Creeley, Mottram studies: Mottram manuscript essay opening 'Robert Creeley was born in 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts...'; typescript and manuscript essay headed 'Robert Creeley-A Method / A Sight / The Hole-Words (1967) p. 100-p. 106'; manuscript essay headed 'Creeley', opening with a quote from Creeley, 'I want to live in the world...'; manuscript notes accompanying copy of essay and poem 'The creative' by Creeley, published as Sparrow 6 (Los Angeles, 1973); extensive manuscript and typescript notes by Mottram on individual works by Creeley; manuscript notes on Creeley's biography and bibliography; typescript carbon of Mottram paragraph on Creeley, 10 Feb 1990, intended for publication in City Limits magazine

Norman Mailer, published essay by Mottram: manuscript draft essay headed 'N. Mailer: the reporter of the divine economy'; typescript with manuscript corrections, headed 'Norman Mailer: frontline reporter of the divine economy'; two photocopies of article as published in First person singular: studies in American autobiography ed. A. Robert Lee (Vision Press, London, and St Martin's, New York, 1988), 217-243, with a few manuscript additions; two typescript letters, 1987, from the editor Bob Lee, about the editing process