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 Not all the poems appear in collections of his work, and some are unpublished.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.
Drafts, correspondence and papers relating to 'An Essay on Villon'. The whole work is in rhyme, including the list of Dale’s earlier publications and the bibliography. An early draft indicates that there was an intention to place ‘Earth Bound: an Essay on Dante’ at the end of this work.
Drafts, reviews and correspondence relating to Under the Breath. Includes: A word-processed selection of poems included in Under the Breath, inscribed ‘The old filofax notebook from which UTB was prepared’. Five leaves of drafts of ‘No visitors beyond this point’, included in this work, ‘inscrib...
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 ...
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...
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.
Drafts, translations and reviews of poems appearing in Earth Light. Includes: Manuscript drafts of 'The Water-splash' and 'Memento' and the introduction to the sequence 'Like a Vow'. Annotated proofs of the sequences ‘Like a vow’ and ‘Mirror, windows’, which first appeared in Agenda , vol. 26, n...