Scope and Contents Incendiary Innocence. Manifesto by Toni del Renzio. Harangue by one-time leader of the English Surrealist Group. (Bertram Rota Surrealism Supplimental Inventory 1974, Pg. 2) "These words are addressed at a time when self-interests link abroad seeking to exploit the current situation in which ignorance and bigotry, confusion and misrepresentation, weakness and deception, all combine to obscure with the fog of several signs the obstacle that impedes the actual process of...

Scope and Contents "Jacob's Ladder" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"Max Jacob must have been one of the extraordinary converts to Catholicism that the twentieth century has seen. Next-door neighbour [sic] to Picasso in Montmartre in 1904, Max Jacob became the intimate friend of Apollinaire as well, and together these two were soon the leading figures in the esprit nouveau in literature, working closely with the young cubist painters...

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Letter asking for suggestions on various aspects of the International Exhibition of Surrealism. Attached is Simon Watson Taylor's "Twelve Altars," being his contribution to this section of the exhibition. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 37)

“EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DU SURRÉALISME 1947 présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp... Nous vous convions chaleureusement à participer à l'Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme qui aura lieu à Paris au printemps de 1947..."

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Letter from Bill Copley (William Copley, the American artist and longstanding freind of Duchamp) to Simon Watson Taylor. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 47)

"...Here is a copy of the second issue hot off the press..."

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Letter from Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens to Simon Watson Taylor.

"Dear Sir, Preparing a new French edition fo[sic] the Writings of Marcel Duchamp..."

Scope and Contents Letter with questionnaire inviting Simon Watson Taylor, as a member of the Surrealist Group in England, to a meeting at the London Gallery. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974, Pg. 40)"THE SURREALIST GROUP IN ENGLAND - My dear Simon, A meeting of members will be held at the London Gallery, 23 Brook Street, on Monday June 23rd, at 8-30 p m. [sic] At the meeting held on Friday, June 6th I was instructed to prepare questions on Magritte's "The Red Model" and post them to members in time...

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Letter from Simon Watson Taylor to Harper and Row regarding "Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalism."

"This is a facsimile reprint by Corti of a famous collective work, put together in 1938 under the supervision of André Beton and featuring texts and illustrations by all the surrealist poets and painters of any importance, past as well as at that time present..."

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Letter from Bernard Karpel, The Librarian of the Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, to Simon Watson Taylor.

"Dear Mr. Taylor: I am assisting Robert Motherwell in editing for English translation for the Pierrre Cabanne conversations with Duchamp..."

Scope and Contents "Liberation Then" featured in The New York Review. Reviews of seven books on surrealism including English translations of selected poems by Breton and his Manifestoes of Surrealism. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"The word 'surrealism' is by now comfortably integrated into most people's vocabularies. It seems to provide a useful term for a quality of fascination inherent in the systematized irrationality that has, for example, always been a component of...

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Typed carbon copy with revisions in Duchamp's handwriting. (Bertram Rota Inventory 1974)

"A PROPOS OF 'READYMADES' IN 1913 I HAD THE HAPPY IDEA TO FASTEN A BICYCLE WHEEL TO A KITCHEN STOOL AND WATCH IT TURN. A FEW MONTHS LATER I BOUGHT A CHAP REPRODUCTION OF A WINTER EVENING LANDSCAPE, WHICH I CALLED 'PHARMACY' AFTER ADDING TWO MALL DOTS, ONE RED AND ONE YELLOW, IN THE HORIZON..."