Buxton Papers. Transcripts of telegrams from Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sydney Buxton; 1917-1919. Correspondence between Buxton and Long, 1916-1919, is held by the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.
Motion Papers. Vols. l-lii. 3 Notebooks comprising the first autograph draft of the novel, with the working title Sister Boddy's Hot Spoon, later published as The Pale Companion; 1987–1988. Autograph. Three volumes.
Motion Papers. Vols. liii-liv. Two notebooks comprising the second autograph draft of Sister Boddy's Hot Spoon (published as The Pale Companion); May – August 1988. Autograph. Two volumes.
Motion Papers. Vols. lxiii-lxiv. Two notebooks comprising a subsequent draft of the novel; 1990. Autograph with some typewritten pages pasted in. Two volumes.