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Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1951]-[1969], of poetry by Clifford Dyment, consisting mostly of drafts of twenty-six of the twenty-eight dream poems first published in section VI of his Collected Poems (London, 1970), pp. 89-106 (ff. 2 verso, 5 verso, 6 verso, 9-94, 96-104, 106-109).
Also included are a few additional poems, most apparently unpublished; these comprise 'The Found Postman' (f. 46 verso), 'The Trap' (f. 95), 'The Thames' (ff. 105, 108), 'The Crow' (f. 108; published in Fur, Feather and Fin (London, [1968]), p. 71), 'Crucifixus' (f. 109; published in Poems 1935-1948 (London, 1949), p. 22), 'The Worm is near its Victory' (f. 109), 'Strict Life Takes Toll' (f. 109), 'The Shadow in the Corn' (f. 110), 'Harvest' (f. 111), 'The Dumble' (f. 112), 'Landscape' (f. 113) and 'The Off-beat' / 'The Tramp' (ff. 114-115). The presence of a draft foreword (ff. 4-7), notes (f. 8) and title page, 'Poems in the Night' (f. 20 verso), gives an indication of Dyment's intention to publish the dream poems as a separate volume. Most of the poems are listed, in Dyment's hand, on ff. 1-2. Some of the poems are written on the backs of old letters and circulars, as well as fragments of a typescript for his autobiography The Railway Game (London, 1962) (ff. 33-35, 45, 55, 73, 75-76, 81, 92, 96, 99-101, 104, 114-115, versos only) and the beginning of his introduction to the first edition of Robert Greacen's autobiography, Even Without Irene (Dublin, 1969) (f. 4 verso, 12 verso).

A collection of eighteen holograph poems by Clifford H. Dyment, dated February 1930 (see ff. 1, 7), when Dyment was aged sixteen.
The collection consists of fair copies of seventeen poems, written in ink (ff. 2-11 verso), with an eighteenth added in pencil (f. 12); all are apparently unpublished.

Corrected authors' typescript, [mid-1960s], for Clifford and Marcella Dyment's collection of amusing animal poetry 'Fur, Feather, and Fin' (NLW MS 24085iD), together with a copy of the limited edition (No. 11 of 500) of the book, Fur, Feather, and Fin (London: Carrefour Press, 1968), signed by Clifford Dyment and illustrator Hafis Bertschinger (NLW MS 24085iiD).
The typescript contains a few pencil emendations by Clifford Dyment, mostly unused in the published version (NLW MS 24085iD, ff. 5 verso, 14, 15, 27, 32, 33, 42), including four additional lines to 'The Camel' (f. 5 verso). The typescript also includes an 'Explanation and Extenuation' by the authors, also omitted from the published version (f. v).