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- [1960] - 1984 (Creation)
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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)