[ilds] Mott and Durrell

[James Gifford]

Hi Bill,

I started to hunt around for it when you sent the first email but 
realized I was confusing him with Graham Howe (who *does* appear in some 
of the same journals as LD and was one of LD's interests, though more 
Henry Miller's).  Durrell and Mott didn't publish in the same places, so 
far as I know -- mea culpa.  As for Howe, Durrell dropped him fairly 
quickly, though Miller kept an interest for a while.  Both HM and LD 
published comments on Howe.

Durrell seems to have first found Mott in 1950 and mentions him to 
Miller in a letter from Zagreb (noting Mott's /The Grand Design/ which 
MacNiven identifies as /The Universal Design of Birth/ from 1948).  He 
recommends the Universal Oedipal Complex book in the same letter.

That said, Mott did publish a number of articles in psychoanalytic and 
psychiatric journals in the 1940s, both American and British.  Those 
would probably be listed in the regular bibliographies, but I doubt 
they'd be easily accessed.

Mott also appears to be closely tied to Christian Science in the defunct 
Church of Integration.

Apart from that, there's little in the Durrellian critical literature on 
Mott apart from what you've noted already, that is, apart from a crazy 
article from 1967 on Durrell and Lane's /Egypt/...  ;)  Grime has a 
brief footnote as well, noting that 1967 piece, in "How Real is the 
City?" (68 n29).

Best,
Jamie

On 25/06/11 1:58 PM, Godshalk, William (godshawl) wrote:
> Jamie,
>
> You wrote that Durrell and Mott appear in some of the same magazines. I don't have your precise words in front of me, but I think you said "in the 1940s."
>
> I have been searching and finding things about Mott, But how can I find these mags?
>
> Bill
>
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