Word-processed draft, with acknowledgements, notes and index, and copyright date of 1997. Inscribed ‘Early draft, incomplete & some duds to go. 73 leaves, but with an earlier version of leaves 61-65 which were revised to cover only leaves 61-64.
Second proof, computer print-out, inscribed ‘Second set of proofs, third on PDF file, 9/12/11’. With manuscript amendments tagged with self-adhesive labels. 303 pages, two to the leaf.
Scrapbook for 2000-2002. Includes printed text Hindsight: An Old Song, Skirt, Wish (Melton Mowbray: Door-to-Everywhere, 2000), copy of a letter from J. Cotton to Dale. Not indexed.
Further draft text, mostly photocopied from Add MS 89065/1/46, and foliated. With preliminaries, a contents list and dedicatory poem, and autograph amendments.
Correspondents, surnames BU-BY. Kate Bucknell. 1994. Aubrey Burl, 2000-2012. Correspondence. With a list of books inscribed by Burl and presented to Dale. Diana Pelham-Burn. 1998-2003. Stanley Burnshaw. 1972-2002. The copies of Dale’s letters to Burnshaw are of the first page of each letter only...
Word-processed draft inscribed ‘Typescript pre 2004. Corbière + annotations etc.’ Although the later title appears as a draft title page this seems to have been the earlier 2004 draft.
Scrapbook for 2008, compiled by sticking entries in Ernst and Young UK Tax Guide for Authors. Mostly blank, only nine entries having been inserted, and possibly some others excised by Dale.