‘Complete books of verse with notes for the Collected’, mostly originally in a ring-binder, inscribed thus on the cover, consisting of copies, with extensive manuscript amendments and suggestions or instructions to his editor, of previous published works.
Typewritten text of Edge to Edge, being another copy of Add MS 89065/1/69, with folio numbers and manuscript amendments, inscribed ‘Corrected copy for second edition and Collected 1 (Began finalization 2009)’.
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’.
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.
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’.
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.
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...
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.