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Kenneth Rexroth, Mottram studies and some letters: unbound proof copies of Mottram's The Rexroth Reader (Jonathan Cape, London, 1972) with covering note, 24 Jun 1971 from Jonathan Cape Ltd; typescript letter, 27 Mar 1972 from James Laughlin of New Directions, New York, Rexroth's publisher, praising the Reader; manuscript letter, 7 Apr 1972 from Rexroth to Mottram, in appreciation of the Reader; Mottram manuscript essay on Rexroth, opening 'Rexroth distinguishes between ...'

John Dos Passos: Mottram manuscript essay headed 'John Dos Passos (1896): The fiction of determinism and the fiction of revolution'; Mottram manuscript essay on Dos Passos opening 'John Dos Passos wrote from Massachusetts...', not dated, but associated with notebook on 'Thirties Poetry', [1985-1990]; Mottram manuscript and typescript notes on individual works by Dos Passos and on secondary sources; Dos Passos article 'The code of Mrs. Roosevelt: or uplift goes global' from Esquire (Dec 1960); Dos Passos travel article 'Ten days in the Ice Age' from Holiday (Apr 1966) (note: above 2 items are outsize); newspaper cuttings, 1958-1984, about Dos Passos

Jack Kerouac, Mottram essays: manuscript note and typescript carbon of study published as an introduction to Kerouac's The scripture of the golden eternity (Corinth Books, New York, 1970); manuscript essay headed, 'Confidence (3) Kerouac', 69 pages; manuscript draft and typescript carbon copies of essay headed, 'A preface to Visions of Cody', published in The Review of Contemporary Fiction 3/2 (Elmwood Park, Illinois, 1983), 50-61; Mottram manuscript essay headed, 'Kerouac (b. 1922) and opening, 'Kerouac, like Ginsberg, was a student at Columbia University'; Mottram manuscript essay headed, 'The Beat Generation: 1980'; review-article on Ann Charters' Penguin book of the Beats, 1993, published as 'Beats' Casablanca 3 (London, 1993), 26-27, as manuscript and two typescript drafts, with accompanying promotional material and manuscript letter, 23 Dec 1992 from Amanda Sebestyen of Casablanca magazine

Ernest Hemingway, Mottram essays: versions of the essay headed 'Essential history: suicide and nostalgia in Hemingway's fictions', published in Ernest Hemingway: new critical essays ed.A. Robert Lee (Vision, London, and Barnes & Noble, Totowa, New Jersey, 1983), 122-150, including manuscript draft, typescript carbon, two photocopies, one marked 'master', one with manuscript alterations, page proofs with comments, and correspondence 1981-1982 with Bob Lee, the editor; versions of essay headed 'Tests of security: Hemingway & his biographers', published in 1986 including manuscript draft, typescript, proofs, and photocopy of printed item; manuscript essay headed 'Ernest Hemingway-towards political commitment'; manuscript essay opening 'The difference between Dos Passos' Three soldiers and Hemingway's war fiction...'; manuscript essay opening 'Soon after the end of the first World War...'; manuscript essay headed 'Introduction to Twentieth Century American fiction'; typescript essay on Hemingway's novels, opening 'Within the destructive processes of World War One...'

Ed Dorn, material by Mottram: manuscript essay on Dorn, 4 pages; Mottram manuscript notes headed 'Dorn-Slinger-1975'; Mottram manuscript and typescript notes headed 'Creeley: Edward Dorn's Geography-Stand vol. 8 No. 2 1966', 1 page; excerpts from Dorn's poem 'This is the way I hear the momentum', in manuscript by Mottram; folder with poems form Dorn's The newly fallen (Totem Press, New York, 1961), typed out by Mottram, along with excerpts from Larry Eigner's On my eyes (Jargon Foundation, 1960); three poems of Dorn, 'A song', 'Chronicle' and 'The explanation' typed out by Mottram; brief bibliography of Dorn, by Mottram, typescript and manuscript, to 1978 with a second list, manuscript, covering 1960-1970, and a brief separate list of contents of Dorn's book Geography (Fulcrum Press, London, 1965); formal letter, 4 Aug 1981 from Professor Levitt at University of Colorado, Boulder, asking Mottram for reference for Dorn, and enclosing Dorn's curriculum vitae

Bob Cobbing, studies by Eric Mottram: manuscript notes on Cobing's publications up to 1970; press notice and brief letter from the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971, on release of long-playing record including performance by Cobbing, with typescript carbon of Mottram sleeve notes; typescript notes and introduction for 'WF100' event, The Poetry Society, London, 1973; typescript of article 'A prosthetics of poetry: the art of Bob Cobbing', with some manuscript corrections, published in Second Aeon 16-17 (Cardiff, 1973); offprint of the above article bound in booklet form by Cobbing, with manuscript card from Cobbing; half-page typescript note on Cobbing, probably as spoken introduction to a performance, mid 1970s; typescript carbon of article 'A successful campaign-Writers Forum', 1974; programme and Mottram manuscript notes for performance at October Gallery, London, by 'Oral Complex' (Bob Cobbing, John Whiting and Clive Fencott)

Bill Sherman, Mottram essay and texts by Sherman: Mottram manuscript notes and typescript carbon of introduction for Sherman's Tahitian journals (Hearing Eye, London, 1990); letterpress poem-card by Sherman, headed 'Hydra'; typescript of poem, 'Prologue to a Journey to Spain'; poems by Sherman, mostly in photocopied typescript format, including 'Last train from Taputapuatea', 'The hills of Madagascar', 'Fuhkin Mauberly', 'Spanish songs in Mandaine Land'; photocopy of typescript of Sherman essay 'Between assassinations: American Art and Life in the 1960's; a dissolution of genre', 1980; photocopy of typescript of Sherman essay 'The poetry of Eric Mottram: a brief introduction' with covering typescript letter from Sherman, 17 Dec 1981; photocopy of article '1837: the Mandan Indians' from The Anglo-Welsh Review 69 (1981), unsourced article headed 'Concerns and language', and newspaper cutting of unsourced article 'Establishment and the poet', all items by Sherman

Allen Ginsberg, Mottram essays: incomplete Mottram manuscript and typescript essay on Ginsberg, paginated 6-31, the first complete paragraph opening 'Zen is deeply connected here with American belief in self-reliance...'; Mottram manuscript essay on Ginsberg opening 'Allen Ginsberg was born in Paterson...'; Mottram manuscript essay headed 'The Beat Generation Writers: Jan 1964'; Mottram manuscript draft essay on Ginsberg, opening with a quote from Rexroth; typescript and carbon of essay headed 'Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties', both with the same manuscript corrections; further typescript of the same essay, Winter 1969-1970, and bearing further manuscript corrections; photocopy of the above corrected typescript with yet further manuscript alterations, published as a booklet by Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton and Seattle, 1972; typescript with manuscript insert of essay headed '7. Allen Ginsberg', as though a chapter in a larger project, paginated 75-85; typescript original of the essay 'The wild good and the heart ultimately', on yellow paper, preceded by four pages of manuscript opening 'Ginsberg was one of the ten or so non-academic poets...'; typescript carbon on yellow paper of Mottram essay 'The wild good and the heart ultimately', written in 1976 and published in Spanner 15 (London, 1979 for 1978), 70-118; typescript carbon of continuation of this essay, on blue paper, paginated 27-48; full form of essay as published in Spanner 15 (London 1978); typescript of Mottram essay headed 'Allen Ginsberg: Personal and social writings 1948-1978'; typescript essay headed 'Voice of America', 2 pages, 1984, with two page manuscript essay headed 'Allen Ginsberg' and opening 'Ginsberg's power and achievement...', which formed the basis of Mottram's contribution to the 60th birthday anthology, Best minds: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg ed. Bill Morgan and Bob Rosenthal (Lospecchio Press, New York, 1986)

Outline of the new infantry training' (Cambridge University Press, 1918) and 'New methods in infantry training' (Cambridge University Press, 1918) by Liddell Hart as Adjutant, 1 Bn, Cambridgeshire Volunteer Regiment, with working papers, related correspondence and reviews. 1 file

Jack Kerouac, printed material by Kerouac: photocopy of unsourced printed text 'Excerpts from Visions of Cody' [1973]; San Francisco Blues (Beat Books, no place of publication given, 1983), 3 copies; Old Angel Midnight (Midnight Press, no place of publication given, 1985); Safe in heaven dead: interview with Jack Kerouac ed. Michael White (Hanuman Books, Madras & New York, 1990)

Allen De Loach: photocopy of typescript of poem 'Elegy for Walt Whitman', to be published by Anonym Press, New York, 1968; photocopy of typescript essay 'The eclectic Dylan', with covering typescript letter, 8 Dec 1968, recounting driving accident in which Allen Ginsberg was injured; mailing of Sep 1969, enclosing typescript carbons of poem sequence beginning 'Herein lies the art...', poem sequence titled 'Fragments, etc.', untitled poem sequence, found elsewhere as 'Three parts unordered' and prose item headed 'The poems is a real thing, baby'; recapitulatory mailing, with typescript, four poems in 'Herein lies the art...' group, and photocopies of typescript of 'Fragments, etc.' and 'from Three parts unordered'; mailing of November 1969, comprising a photocopy of De Loach's poem 'From Maine', to which have been added many marginal comments by Mottram; photocopy of poem sequence 'Three parts unordered', containing short poems numbered 1-33; photocopy of typescript of prose item headed 'from an Introduction to Who is Lowenfels?' (23 pages), endorsed 'Buffalo '74' in Mottram's hand; photocopy of typescript, 'Crow Mother poem'; mailing of typescript work at Christmas 1975 including short story in letter format, poems including 'Recognitions', 'Looking out' and untitled short story opening 'Dalmiki sat, legs crossed...'; photocopy of typescript of poem 'The left-handed Kachina', sent to Mottram 4 Aug 1989; photocopy of typescript and manuscript story opening 'It's a good opening line for any story,' with covering manuscript note, 5 Apr 1990

Texts by other authors on culture and technology, including: 'Problems of the design of a design system', by Joseph Esherick, 1962; book, Astronauts of Inner-space: an international collection of avant-garde activity, 1966; draft text, 'Let's', by Donald Schumacher, 1970; article, 'Sartre and the myth of practice', by Ian Birchall, from International Socialism, 1970; article, 'The education of the un-artist, part 2', by Allan Kaprow, from Art News, 1972; article, 'Humanizing the assembly line', by Tom Elliston, from Insight USA, 1973; article, 'Robot search for life on Mars', by Walter Froelich, Insight USA, 1973.

Texts by Mottram: 'The persuasive lips: men and guns in America, the West', published in American Studies, c 1975; draft text, 'The metallic necessity and the new American: culture and technology in America, 1850-1900'. Articles by other authors, including 'What the railroads will bring us', by Henry George, from the Cleveland Monthly, 1868, and ‘Big technology and neutral machines’ by Max Learner, from America as a Civilization, 1957. Notes on books, including Popular culture and industrialism, 1865-1890, edited by Henry Nash Smith, 1967; The Californian dream, by Dennis Hale and Jonathan Eisen, 1968.

Notes and transcripts of speeches made by Robert Edward Laycock to the Commandos including transcript of speech, 24 Oct 1945, and speech given to 1 Commando Bde on the disbandment of the Commando group, 23 Oct 1945. 1 file