Photocopy of Add MS 89065/1/48, without the preliminaries and dedicatory poem, but with a photocopy of the first leaf of the verse-drama ‘Cell’ and two other leaves foliated 33 and 34 with the poems ‘Vigil’ and ‘Wildflower’.
Two copies of the published text, one inscribed ‘File copy … Corrected copy’. Only one correction has been observed in this copy and it has also been made in the other copy.
Another copy of the above, ring-bound. Inscribed on the cover ‘Working copy’ and on f. 2 ‘This text no longer reliable – minor changes & new epigrams to add’.
Another copy of the above, but inscribed ‘Second draft 1998. 2006. Numbered for 8 X 5’, although actually reaching only no 25, with 22 and 23 duplicated.
Another copy of Add MS 89065/1/92, comprising the epigrams published as the section 'Foursquare' in Diffractions, with amendments, including the change of copyright date to 2009. Inscribed on the cover ‘Annotated for Collected’. With a detailed note on the verso of the title-leaf ‘Record of tex...
Photocopy of the above made in Mar 1990. Inscribed ‘No longer a reliable source, 16/3/93’. With further photocopies of some of the pages, annotated with instructions to amend for or not include in the selected poems.
‘The New Testament of Jean de Calais’. This forms appendix 3 of the drafts above. Typewritten in the form of a book with the imprint London: Agenda Editions, 1985. Originally published in Agenda, vol. 19, no. 2/3 (Summer 1982). Two cards of poems by Dale ‘Sparrow’ and ‘Gifts’, published in the B...
Draft text of expanded edition of 1976. Typewritten, but with some poems represented wholly or partially as cuttings from the Macmillan edition of 1970 of Mortal Fire and from other publications, with some autograph amendments and a typed list of further amendments suggested by Stanley Burnshaw, ...
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.