From inserted cover note written by David Malouf: "Early (first?) manuscript draft of first 8 chapters of Remembering Babylon. In A5 exercise journal, 54 leaves (partly numbered) with text on rectos

Draft typescript, typed by Malouf, 120 leaves with handwritten page numbers in pencil, handwritten emendations in blue ink and black biro.

Draft typescript, 202 numbered leaves, 4 inserted leaves, handwritten emendations in blue biro, and several pages of typescript drafts of new paragraphs inserted after page 138 and others

Draft, version 10, 115 leaves, with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections.

Draft, version 11, 22 leaves, extracted from the 117 pages of this version. The other 95 pages were without any amendations and have not been retained.

Draft, version 14. Version 13 with only very few minor corrections has not been not retained. Handwritten emendations, 112 leaves, many notes on post-it notes attached to the margins, with additional typed paragraph on A5 paper at p. 5, and with additional 3 typescript pages after pages 9 and 19.

Typescript, version 2 (typed by David Malouf), in five sections numbered I – V. (sections III and IV present in two versions), with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape), and handwritten inserts.

Typescript, version 3 (typed by David Malouf), with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape), and handwritten inserts.

Draft, rich text format printout, version 4 (this and subsequent versions typed by Christopher Edwards), 114 leaves, hand-numbered, dated in top right-hand corner 19/02/06, with some handwritten emendations. The first three chapters have titles which have been crossed out. Chapter titles are used in document title up to Chapter three and then change to chapter numbers.

Darft, version 5, five chapters individually paginated, 16, 39, 30, 20, 8p, altogether 113 leaves, a few handwritten emendations by an editor in the text and on a few post-it notes attached to margins.