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.
Typewritten copy, probably by Éditions Guernica, of the text, with manuscript amendments by Dale. The text of ‘Hell’ was sent by Éditions Guernica but is not in the collection.
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 ...
Word-processed text of the whole work, prepared by Anvil Press and sent to Dale with a covering letters from Peter Jay of 17 Apr and 8 May 1996. With manuscript amendments and highlighted sections made over the following months. As Jay notes in his letter, the leaves which should have been of can...
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.