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Map: map of the constellations, original print, 1856

Album of black and white photographs including: childhood family seaside holidays with Brian (older brother) and Brenda (younger sister) and parents; views of the Lake District; a World War Two ration card; school photographs [Blackpool Grammar School]; a booking confirmation from Barrow House Hotel, Keswick, 1947.

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

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

Album of black and white photographs and related items, including: 21st birthday card; bank notes from India, Japan and Ceylon (Sri Lanka); photographs relating to Mottram’s service in the Royal Navy, 1943-1947, including views of Valletta, Malta and of Egypt; photographs of friends in the French Alps.

The archive includes the papers, correspondence, diaries and manuscripts, recordings, research material and publications of Professor Eric Mottram and spans the period 1928-1995. Covering his own creative work and academic publications, it also reflects his wide-ranging cultural investigations in the field of twentieth century American and English literature, film, music, art, theatre and popular and material culture. A major series of files about named authors and poets covers figures as diverse as Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Jerome Rothenberg, Muriel Rukeyser, William Burroughs, Basil Bunting, Bob Cobbing, Roy Fisher, Bill Griffiths and Tom Raworth. Also of particular importance are a series of original tape recordings, mainly made by Mottram, of poets reading their work. Linked to this material is a rich series of little press publications and little magazines. The two chief aspects of Mottram's own work are reflected in his artist notebooks and essays. The former run from 1979-1988 and contain draft poems, notes on a whole range of research topics, with inserts of postcards, press-cuttings, photographs, cartoons, artworks and postage stamps to create a rich wallet of collage effects. The essay series, including published and unpublished material and supporting notes, reflects his wide-ranging contribution over nearly half a century to the teaching of American and English literature. Major groupings within the archive are as follows: personal papers including appointment diaries, 1951-1995, and correspondence with Ted and Joan Wilentz, 1963-1994; papers reflecting Mottram's own poetry including notebooks, and manuscripts, 1956-1995; papers reflecting his publications including reviews and collaborations, 1952-1988; editorial papers notably for The Poetry Review; correspondence with and/or papers relating to twentieth century creative writers, 1928-1998; little press publications, 1954-1998;little magazines, 1942-1998; papers relating to academic teaching, research and administration, [1952]-1994; Mottram's essay texts and associated material, 1947-1995; promotional material for literary events and from publishers, 1945-1958; artworks and posters, 1953-1994; photographs by Mottram, 1950-1995; and recorded material notably including original recordings of poets from both sides of the Atlantic reading their material, 1950-1998.

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

Collected examples of Ezra Pound reading from 1939 to 1959, followed by 'Pound-Cavalcanti: excerpts from the Arch Ensemble performance in 1983', pt. 1;

capacity: 90 mins

condition: excellent, but some distortion in the second (musical) item

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

Sixth form and undergraduate essays on English Literature by Mottram.

Eugene O'Neill and the Provincetown Players: typescript of proposed introduction to book The Provincetown Players: a selection of the shorter works by Barabara Ozieblo; correspondence, 1993, about its possible publication with Sheffield Academic Press, including letter of recommendation from Mottram, 22 Dec 1993; photocopies of extracts, 'The Provincetown Players and other groups', by Joel O'Brien from Here's Provincetown (Provincetown Historical Association, Massachusetts, 1979) and chapter 13 from Time and the town: a Provincetown chronicle by Mary Heaton Vorse (Dial Press, New York, 1942)

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.