Add MS 89065/1/42

Early poems by Dale, and later cards and leaflets, with some associated correspondence. Includes:

• Nerve: Poems by Peter J. Dale. ‘Limited edition of 200, hand-set and –printed in a hurry by Peter J. Dale, June 1959’. Two copies of the text, no. 119, 127. No. 119 has been used as working text for revised re-publication, no. 127 has the price amended from 5s to 3s. With an undated letter to David Scott, who had enquired about the work.
• Word made Flesh: Poems by Peter J. Dale (Oxford: Lost Arts Press). 4 pp. on card.
• Walk from the House: Poems by Peter Dale (Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1962). Most poems annotated by Dale.
• Thanks. Card published as a ‘Big little poem special’, later included in The Big Little Poem Series, no. 12 (Grimsby: Robert Richardson, 1985). Later published in Eight by Five (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2007) and Diffractions.
• Kids’ stuff (Melton Mowbray: Robert Richardson, 2000). Two proof copies and published text of a four-page leaflet, including ‘Wishful’, ‘Coastwise’ and ‘Home visit’. With associated letters from Robert Richardson, the publisher. ‘Wishful’ and ‘Coastwise’ later published in Under the Breath and all three poems in Diffractions.