Drafts, printed texts, correspondence and reviews of Edge to Edge. This work included poems from The Storms, Mortal Fire, Cross Channel, One Another, Too Much of Water and Earth Light, and nine poems not previously collected.
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 Inscribed ‘This manuscript book first written up during 1990’ and later ‘This manuscript has been superseded by the Anvil Selected Poems: Edge to Edge 1996’.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 ...
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.
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.
Final pre-proof, word-processed, with printer’s corrections and an accompanying letter and queries from Peter Jay of the Anvil Press, dated 17 Apr 1996.
Page proofs, printed from computer on the night of 23-24 Jul 1996, with printer’s corrections, some leaves copied with further amendments and an accompanying letter from Bill Swainson of the Anvil Press, dated 24 Jul 1996.
Photocopy of the above, with a new title-page reading ‘New and selected poems’, some additional leaves including extra poems, an introduction by Grey Gowrie (the Earl of Gowrie), and a leaf of acknowledgements with the copyright date 1995. Most leaves have been foliated, the main sequence running...
Forty-five leaves of fair copies of poems in the selection, two letters from Dale to Grey Gowrie with the text of his introduction, a letter from Patrick Morgan to Dale and two versions of a letter from Christopher Truman of Cinnabar Editions to the editors of Stand magazine objecting to its adve...