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. lxxvii (ff. ). Notebook dated 18 July 1987. Autograph. Includes drafts of notes regarding the Opera novel sequence and other miscellaneous notes and reflections.
Motion Papers. Vol. cxl (ff. ). Notebook; 1991-1992, n.d. Autograph. Comprises drafts of articles and reviews. Also includes photocopied, typewritten loose folios of articles relating to artist Sarah Raphael.
Motion Papers. Vol. cxliii (ff. ). Notebook dated 11 March 1996. Autograph. Includes drafts of articles and drafts of introduction to an anthology of work by students of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing course.