Another copy of the galley proofs as at Add MS 89065/4/50, but marked with some different amendments which were used as copy for Selected poems: Villon .
Word-processed draft of the French original text and the translations, based on Add MS 89065/4/57. Inscribed ‘This text revised in 1999’. With further manuscript and word-processed amendments. Folios numbered [14] + 253, pairs of those in the bi-lingual section being pasted together to show Frenc...
Word-processed draft of the French original text and the translations, based on Add MS 89065/4/58 above. Inscribed ‘Disc as sent to Anvil 1999, later changes in green ink, latest in red’. Folios numbered [15] + 253 + [6]. Copyright date 2000.
Word-processed draft of the French original text and the translations, based on Add MS 89065/4/59 above. Inscribed ‘Penultimate text’. Folios numbered. [13] + 253 , some pairs of those in the bi-lingual section being pasted together to show French and English texts opposite each other. Copyright ...
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.
Page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 1 Jan 2006 and inscribed ‘First proofs’. With manuscript amendments by Dale, indicated by self-adhesive labels, and by the publishers.
Page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 15 Dec 2006. With manuscript amendments by Dale and by the publishers.
Third set of page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 26 [Mar 2007], with a few pencilled queries, some on self-adhesive notes, and a further letter from Jay dated 5 Jun 2007, enclosing four leaves of final queries, and a prospect...
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...
Miscellaneous related documents, including: Computer print-outs dated 26 Jan 2001, of 26 Mar 2001 (with queries from Peter Jay dated 28 Mar 2001) and of 27 Mar 2001 of pages 1-14 of the final text and other pages the numeration of which does not accord with either the drafts or the final text. W...