Another copy of the above, comb-bound, sent to Michael Boyd of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 a covering letter. With a letter from Ginnie Stephens of the Company returning the text, having retained the potted biography mentioned in the first letter and rejecting the play for performance.
'Working papers 2006... Chunk of discarded verse-play, first inkling of “Local Habitation”... last page: biog note of P.D. [i.e.himself]’. Also includes personal memoranda. .
2000 Millennium Diary. With 5 drafts of ‘Orchard’, dated 16 Oct to 27 Oct 2001 inserted in a pocket at the front and drafts of ‘No visitors beyond this point’, ‘Over the other side’ and ‘Outlook’ on or inserted between the leaves of the diary. All but ‘Over the Other Side’ published in Under the ...
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.