Typewritten draft of the French original text and the translations, the latter based on the corrected copy Add MS 89065/4/56. With a new introduction and further manuscript amendments. Folios numbered [2] + iv + 253. Copyright date 1995.
2002. Drafts of poems. 'Surface tension: notes towards a new book begun Autumn 2002', and later inscribed 'No, no. Start again, this doesn't hang together' and 'Out of date, Dec 04, abandoned'.
Scrapbook for 1989. Includes poems: 'Three Translations from the French, being 'Pariah' by Tristan Corbière, 'Song' by Eugène Guillevic and 'Headland' by Jean Tardieu, from Outposts; 'Home Ground', a superseded version, from Agenda.
Scrapbook for 1981-1984. Includes poems: 'An Apology (For R.L.)', 'Virtue', 'Feud', 'Richard II Forty (after Aragon)' (with proof sheets), 'The Darkening Garden', 'Miscellaneous Poem', Heights of Wu Mountain', 'In the Mountains', from Agenda; 'A Bunch of Flowers', from The Countryman: 'Salute' by...
Correspondents, surnames TR-TY. Translators’ Association. 1998. Christopher Truman. 1995-2006, n.d. Correspondence, including letters from Truman to others copied to Dale, and many word-processed poems submitted by him to Dale. Chrystal Tuckfield. 2003. Julian Turner. 2003-2004, n.d. Raymond Tyn...
Page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 1 Jan 2006 and inscribed ‘First proofs’. With manuscript amendments by Dale, indicated by self-adhesive labels, and by the publishers.
Page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 15 Dec 2006. With manuscript amendments by Dale and by the publishers.
Third set of page proofs, two pages to each A4 leaf, with a covering letter from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, dated 26 [Mar 2007], with a few pencilled queries, some on self-adhesive notes, and a further letter from Jay dated 5 Jun 2007, enclosing four leaves of final queries, and a prospect...