Draft text of expanded edition of 1976. Typewritten, but with some poems represented wholly or partially as cuttings from the Macmillan edition of 1970 of Mortal Fire and from other publications, with some autograph amendments and a typed list of further amendments suggested by Stanley Burnshaw, ...
Further draft text. Also with some poems represented wholly or partially as cuttings from the Macmillan edition of Mortal Fire and from other publications (not all the same cuttings as in the above), with some autograph amendments and including a dedicatory poem and some further translations.
Further draft text, mostly photocopied from Add MS 89065/1/46, and foliated. With preliminaries, a contents list and dedicatory poem, and autograph amendments.
Photocopy of Add MS 89065/1/48, without the preliminaries and dedicatory poem, but with a photocopy of the first leaf of the verse-drama ‘Cell’ and two other leaves foliated 33 and 34 with the poems ‘Vigil’ and ‘Wildflower’.
Journal notes on the writing of Mortal Fire, with drafts, contracts, royalty statements (also for The Storms), electrostatic copies of two reviews, correspondence of Dale with Norwich Playhouse, with a view to a reading, and with Macmillan and Co. and Ohio University Press.
Notes, drafts, record of the pathway to publication and reviews. Correspondence relating to the work, including letters to Terry Eagleton (in response to a review, which is included), Michael Schmidt of PN Quarterly, from Fergus Chadwick and Roy Fuller.