Notebooks in A4 or A5 format, described by Dale as working draft notebooks. Most books include loose and pasted down leaves, some of which are word-processed.
'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. .
'Composition notebook pre 2002'. Includes drafts of poems in Under the Breath, Local Habitation and Diffractions, translations of poems by Charles Cros and Paul-Jean Toulet, a parody of Laura Riding and some prose articles and reviews.