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.
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, ...
Word-processed draft on A6 leaves, with the copyright date 2005, and with manuscript amendments made in Jan 2007 described as ‘Proof revisions in green’, being amendments made by Dale to the proofs sent him in Jan 2006 and Dec 2006, below.
Scrapbook for 1958-1966. Includes cutting from Peace News relating to Dale's securing exemption from military service, a letter from Derwent May to Dale. Includes poems: 'Duologue', from Painter and Sculptor; 'Not this Wine', 'Not that I Thirst', 'Pirates', 'When I was bored', 'Nightpiece for a D...
Papers and correspondence relating to the Waywiser Press, a publishing company with Philip Hoy as managing editor, and latterly parent company of Between the Lines
Scrapbook for 1984-1985, in a ring-binder photograph album. Includes poems: 'The Vice Salacious', 'Dante: the Inferno: canto fifteen', translated by Dale, 'Eliot', from Agenda; Gifts and Thanks, both a 'Big Little Poem Special', on cards published Grimsby: Robert Richardson, 1985