Notebook including heavily amended manuscript draft of cantos 1-19 of ‘Purgatorio’. Inscribed ‘Complete Dec 17th [1983], checked by 2nd Jan 84’ and on the cover ‘Foul papers: Dante’. The opening leaves of the notebook have been excised.
Incomplete word-processed page proofs of part of ‘Purgatory’, foliated 363, 367, 384-426, 428-430, 432-447. It is uncertain whether this was prepared by Éditions Guernica or Anvil Press. This shows changes from the above, and has further manuscript amendments and highlighted sections, which are ...
Amendments, revised leaves, drafts of the introduction and index and correspondence between Dale and Peter Jay relating to the production of the translation.
Amendments, revised leaves, drafts of the introduction and index and correspondence between Dale and Peter Jay relating to the production of a revised version of the translation.
Amendments, revised leaves, drafts of the introduction and index and correspondence between Dale and Peter Jay relating to the production of a further revised version of the translation.
Publicity material, general correspondence and relevant articles and papers relating to Dale’s translation of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, including correspondence with Antonio D’Alfonso, of Éditions Guernica.