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- 1989 - 1994 (Creation)
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The American presence: programme and extra information on the Conference at the Institute of United States Studies, London, 10-11 Nov 1989, titled 'The American presence in Britain', with Mottram scheduled to speak on 'American arts and American culture in Britain'; Mottram manuscript essay opening 'The title of this session of the conference...' and apparently the paper read in 1989; invitation to event inaugurating new degree in United States and Latin American Studies, 21 Apr 1994, with Mottram scheduled to speak on 'The American presence and American Cultural Studies in Europe'; typescript essay opening 'By the 1880s, the American fiction writer, Henry James...', and by internal reference the paper read in 1994. 2 copies; two page essay opening 'In 1955 the European Association for American Studies recorded in its first Newsletter...', manuscript; two page essay, possibly a fragment, opening 'When people who assume they belong to one so-called "culture"...', 2 copies, typescript ; typescript essay opening 'When Benjamin Franklin, co-constructor of the Declaration of Independence, wrote...'. 2 copies; manuscript essay opening 'One of the most powerful events in American presence occurred in 1967...'; manuscript essay headed 'N, Publishing' and opening with a consideration of the Anglo-Americanisation of Oxford Street, London; subsidiary manuscript notes, including material on 'Pop music' and on secondary sources