Word-processed text , inscribed ‘Early TS Laforgue, circa 1993+. Working papers of 2nd edition, Anvil text’ and ‘First draft of Anvil revision 1998-1999’. With manuscript amendments.
Word-processed revised draft of the sections ‘Flowers of good will’ and ‘Last poems’. Inscribed ‘Penult text, 2nd edition, Anvil Laforgue’. This incorporates the amendments made in the above, with further amendments, and additional manuscript amendments.
Revised word-processed draft of the above, incorporating all amendments , and itself further amended in manuscript. Inscribed ‘TS 2nd ed Anvil Laf. .. Prelim printout’.
Revised word-processed draft of the introduction and section ‘The Complaints’, with manuscript amendments. Inscribed ‘Laf 2nd edition Anvil, text revised, intro, Comp., Imitation’ and ‘Corrections for Anvil in green + later corrections in blue + later still in red = latest (2003) black’.
Revised word-processed draft of the whole work, including the original French, incorporating all amendments, with the copyright date 2000. Paginated in manuscript.
Hardback printed text, annotated by Dale with a view to a more extrensive revision than that in the copy at Add MS 89065/4/28, with inserted leaves and self-adhesive labels with revised texts overwriting the original texts.
‘Three English versions of Jules Laforgue’s ‘Pierrots’ no. 1 (from 'L’Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune)’, by Martin Sorrell, including version by Dale, as published in the above. Extract from Journal of European Studies, vol. 24 (1994).
Correspondence of Dale and Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry relating to the publication of the translation, with other papers. Includes letter from Jay of 17 Dec 2008 with queries and a final check by Dale dated 19 Jan 2009, with copies of the affected pages of the proofs. Also includes extract f...