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’.
Word-processed draft on A6 leaves, with acknowledgements and notes, but without index, and with copyright date of 1998. Inscribed ‘With only surviving prose introduction’, although this also appears in earlier and later versions, and with a few manuscript amendments. Contents and notes give the ...
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.
Word processed draft on A5 leaves, with acknowledgements and notes, but without index, and copyright date of 2000. Inscribed ‘Updated 2002’ and with manuscript amendments and additional epigrams and others struck through.
Proofs, etc. for the edition of 40 epigrams published by the Rack Press. Includes: Pencilled and manuscript drafts of make-up and contents of the volume.Unpaged proof with suggestions for blurb and copyright date of 2006.Photocopy of this with ‘Eight by five’ amended to ‘8 Eight by five 5’.Proof...
Word-processed drafts mostly on A6 and smaller than A6 leaves, of new poems envisaged as forming a section to be entitled 'Diffractions' in 'Collected poems'. Eventually the 'Collected poems' were re-named 'Diffractions', but with this section still named 'Diffractions' within the larger work.
Collections of poems assembled for, with drafts and correspondence relating to Diffractions, a collection of the majority of Dale's poems, excluding Local Habitation.
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...