Hardback printed text, annotated by Dale with a view to a more extrensive revision than that in the copy at Add MS 89065/4/28, with inserted leaves and self-adhesive labels with revised texts overwriting the original texts.
Revised word-processed draft of the whole work, including the original French, incorporating all amendments, with the copyright date 2000. Paginated in manuscript.
Sections ‘Flowers of good will’ and ‘Last poems’. Inscribed ‘Typescript 2nd edition of Anvil Laforgue. Flowers of goodwill’. With manuscript amendments.
Correspondence relating to the publication of The Legacy, the Testament & other poems of François Villon. Includes: Correspondence between Dale and Kevin Crossley-Holland, and others, of Macmillan, publishers, relating to publication and contracts, 1771-1993. Correspondence between Dale and ...
Correspondence between Dale and Will Sulkin, and others, of Penguin Books relating to the text of Selected Poems: Villon, and subsequent printings, which included minor amendments, and changed from the ‘Penguin poets’ series to the ‘Penguin Classics’ series, cutting of a review, and royalty state...
Typewritten draft of the French original text and the translations, the latter based on the corrected copy Add MS 89065/4/56. With a new introduction and further manuscript amendments. Folios numbered [2] + iv + 253. Copyright date 1995.