1973 Letts Diary, including made-up cash accounts, a statement under the date 28 May stating his belief that poetry cannot suspend disbelief, and a draft of 'The Going', taken from the previous year's diary, published in Mortal Fire.
2000 Millennium Diary. With 5 drafts of ‘Orchard’, dated 16 Oct to 27 Oct 2001 inserted in a pocket at the front and drafts of ‘No visitors beyond this point’, ‘Over the other side’ and ‘Outlook’ on or inserted between the leaves of the diary. All but ‘Over the Other Side’ published in Under the ...
2011 Diary. Includes drafts of ‘The Compass rose’, ‘Enclave’, ‘Piece-meal’, ‘The Sitter’, ‘Monoloch’ on or inserted between the leaves of the diary, also a word-processed pamphlet ‘Crommonwealth [sic] Day greetings’ inserted and notes on David Jones and Dale’s English master, A. S. J. Tessimond.
Poems written 1959-1989. Includes: ‘The Visceral Image’. A poem in the printed catalogue of Eddie Wolfram’s paintings shown at the Woodstock Gallery. 1959. With a review of the exhibition in Art News and Review, vol. 1, no. 14 (1 Aug 1959). ‘The Passing of an Old Lady’. In Tomorrow: a Review of ...
Drafts and texts published in periodicals or elsewhere of single poems by Dale. Not all the poems appear in collections of his work, and some are unpublished. Published poems are in complete issues of periodicals, pages extracted from issues, or photographic or electrostatic copies from issues.
Early poems by Dale, and later cards and leaflets, with some associated correspondence. Includes: Nerve: Poems by Peter J. Dale. ‘Limited edition of 200, hand-set and –printed in a hurry by Peter J. Dale, June 1959’. Two copies of the text, no. 119, 127. No. 119 has been used as working text for...
Notes, drafts and a record of the pathway to publication, with the edition published Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1968, from the original typesetting. With a contract and correspondence from Kevin Crossley-Holland, publishing editor at Macmillan and Co., a letter from Macmillan and Co proposing ...
Two letters from Kevin Crossley-Holland, publishing editor at Victor Gollancz Ltd, one to Dale's agent, Bruce Hunter of David Higham Associates, and one to Dale, rejecting 'Earth Mover' for publication, with a copy of Dale's reply.