Word-processed text , inscribed ‘Early TS Laforgue, circa 1993+. Working papers of 2nd edition, Anvil text’ and ‘First draft of Anvil revision 1998-1999’. With manuscript amendments.
Correspondence, contracts and amended leaves. The correspondence ends with Dale’s letter to Bellew Publishing informing them that in view of his having received no communication from the firm since the work’s publication rights would revert to him.
Word-processed draft, inscribed ‘The Buried Hatchet. Prose from Agenda and other pieces edited and revised for possible publication’. This initial selection, made in 1998, is in a ring-binder and consists of 24 articles and an introduction.
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.
‘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)’.
Word-processed draft. Copyright date 2009. With a few manuscript amendments. With pages printed out from Wikipedia 18 May to 22 June 2009 relating to drugs, anaphylaxis, runic alphabet and the golden mean, as part of the research for the novel.
First word-processed draft on A4 leaves, with manuscript amendments, in the text, on additional manuscript leaves and on additional word-processed leaves. Here entitled ‘The Demise’.
Word-processed draft on A4 leaves. Here entitled ‘The Demise’, bur ‘R’ added in manuscript. Unannotated except that f.2, on different paper, is headed ‘Preambling needs shortening’.