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- 1982 - 1994 (Creation)
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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