Notes, drafts, record of the pathway to publication and reviews. Correspondence relating to the work, including letters to Terry Eagleton (in response to a review, which is included), Michael Schmidt of PN Quarterly, from Fergus Chadwick and Roy Fuller.
Two copies of Agenda Editions edition, with variant card covers, one marked ‘Author’s copy. Notes made for William [Cookson]’, which includes notes added by Dale on the context of many of the sonnets, the other marked ‘Author’s copy (corrected)’, the corrections amounting to a note ‘cut in futur...
Page proofs of revised edition, with manuscript amendments, dated 22 Oct 2001, and electrostatic copy of final proofs with covering letter from Philip Hoy to Dale on 5 Mar 2002, with a few further manuscript amendments, a contract, and a flier for the work.