Drafts and versions of articles by Ronald Blythe included in the volume 'Talking About John Clare' (Nottingham: Trent Books, 1999).

The articles are variously represented in manuscript draft, typescript, typescript carbon copy, and word-processed, some with amendments, on differing paper stocks. The titles sometimes differ from those adopted in the printed book; in the contents listed below, the printed version is used and the chapter numbers are added. Some of the drafts are written on the reverse of other documents, including letters and literary texts.

Contents: cover ilustration; 'Preface'; Chapter II, '"Solvitur ambulando": Clare and Footpath Walking'; Chapter IV, 'Clare in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey'; Chapter VII, 'The Helpston Boys'; Chapter IX, '"Not verse now, only prose!"'; Chapter XI, 'Edmund Blunden and John Clare'; Chapter XII, 'Presidential Fragments'; Chapter XIII, 'Kindred Spirits'; Chapter XIV, 'Common Pleasures'.