Motion Papers. Vols. l-lvii. The Pale Companion; [c.1988-1989?], n.d. Autograph and typewritten. Motion planned to write a sequence of ten novels, treating the developing life story of the principal protagonist, Francis Mayne, from the summer of 1968 onwards. This idea was modelled in part on Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time and its working title was Opera. However, only the first two novels, The Pale Companion (Viking, 1989) and Famous for the Creatures (Viking, 1991) wer...
Motion Papers. Vols. lviii-lxxv. Famous for the Creatures; 1989-1990, n.d. Autograph and typewritten. The second novel in Motion's projected Opera sequence of novels. See Add. 87501-87508 above. Eighteen volumes.
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.
Motion Papers. Vol. lv (ff. ); n.d. 1. ff. . [italics]Autograph[/italics] notes and preparatory material for the 'Opera' sequence, including character and chapter outlines. 2. ff. . Proposal for [italics]Opera[/italics]. [italics]Typewritten[/italics] with [italics]autograph[/italics] revision...