Typescript, inscribed ‘Third copy not current’, with manuscript amendments. 38 unnumbered leaves. Also diary page of 1969 with manuscript draft of ‘Genius’ from sub-series ‘The Gold Nib’, published in a varient form in Eight by Five (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2007).
Bound note book entitled ‘Collected poems’, crossed through and ‘Selected poems’ substituted. Inscribed ‘This manuscript book first written up during 1990’ and later ‘This manuscript has been superseded by the Anvil Selected Poems: Edge to Edge 1996’. Fair copies of poems from The Storms, Mortal ...
Word-processed draft, with acknowledgements, notes and index, and copyright date of 1997. Inscribed ‘Early draft, incomplete & some duds to go. 73 leaves, but with an earlier version of leaves 61-65 which were revised to cover only leaves 61-64.
Second proof, computer print-out, inscribed ‘Second set of proofs, third on PDF file, 9/12/11’. With manuscript amendments tagged with self-adhesive labels. 303 pages, two to the leaf.
Further draft text, mostly photocopied from Add MS 89065/1/46, and foliated. With preliminaries, a contents list and dedicatory poem, and autograph amendments.