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- 1972 - 1982 (Creation)
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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