Cuttings and electrostatic copies from periodicals of articles on modern poetry collected by Dale, some with references to Dale, cuttings, typescripts or copies of poems by others, incomplete typescripts and word-processed texts of articles, probably by others.
Word-processed draft, incorporating the amendments indicated in the above, and foliated [1-7], 8-209. Inscribed ‘Second of the Joan Armstrong series’. Copyright date 2010.
Drafts, printer’s copies of published and unpublished articles and reviews by Dale, extracts from periodicals, catalogues, periodical issues with published versions of articles, prefaces and reviews by Dale.
Typescript, inscribed ‘Third copy not current’, with manuscript amendments. 38 unnumbered leaves. Also diary page of 1969 with manuscript draft of ‘Genius’ from sub-series ‘The Gold Nib’, published in a varient form in Eight by Five (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2007).
Notebook of fair copies of translations from the French, mostly unpublished, made between 1988 and 1994. A note dated 21 Sep 1993 reads ‘I have not been able to update these texts to keep pace with the versions on the computer disk’.
Bound note book entitled ‘Collected poems’, crossed through and ‘Selected poems’ substituted. Inscribed ‘This manuscript book first written up during 1990’ and later ‘This manuscript has been superseded by the Anvil Selected Poems: Edge to Edge 1996’. Fair copies of poems from The Storms, Mortal ...