Motion Papers. Vol. ii (ff. ). Early poetical drafts written while Motion was a schoolboy at Radley College, Abingdon and a student at Oxford University; 1970-1971, n.d. Autograph and typescript.
Motion Papers. Vol. iii (ff. ). Early poetical drafts written while Motion was a schoolboy at Radley College and a student at Oxford University; 1971, n.d. Mostly autograph. Uncollected poems. Also contains five letters, including two by Motion.
Motion Papers. Vol. xx (ff. ). Draft and proofs for Natural Causes (1987); 1987, n.d. Typewritten, with proof reader's autograph markings and revisions. 1. ff. . Draft. 2. ff. . Three sets of proofs, including two marked sets from Chatto & Windus.
Motion Papers. Vol. xxii (ff. ). Poetical drafts Mostly for poems collected in Love in a Life (1991) and The Price of Everything (1994); 1990, n.d. Mostly typewritten, with autograph revisions. Includes a letter from the London Lighthouse to Motion (dated 1 March 1990) concerning Motio...
Motion Papers. Vol. xlv (ff. ). Notebook comprising drafts for 'Sailing to Italy', published in Salt Water; 27 April 1995 – 17 May 1995. Autograph. Includes certificate of Motion's voyage on board the Excelsior and some loose folios interleaved.
Motion Papers. Vol. xxv (ff. ). Proofs for poetical sequence 'Lines of Desire'; n.d. Typewritten, with occasional autograph revisions. Collected in The Price of Everything (1994). 1. ff. 1-41. Set of typewritten proofs. 2. ff. 42-78. Set of typewritten proofs, with autograph suggestion by Blak...
Motion Papers. Vol. xxvii (ff. ). Proofs for 'Joe Soap'; n.d. Typewritten, with publisher's autograph markings and revisions. Collected in The Price of Everything (1994).
Motion Papers. Vol. xviii (ff. ). Poetical drafts for poems collected in Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 (1984); n.d. Mostly typewritten, with some autograph revisions and photocopies. Includes dust jacket proof for Dangerous Play and some further drafts for poems not collected in this volume.