This file is comprised of approximately 194 draft pages, various sizes, some handwritten, some typescript, all heavily corrected in blue and black biro, blue ink and pencil. There is handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

Manuscript (foolscap and A5 size) on green and white pages, in yellow manila folder, [100 leaves]. Cover note by Malouf: Some early drafts, notes & 'bits and pices' of Curlow Creek.

Nine printout drafts of eight stories, all but one published in Every move you make. Includes title page. There are handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape) and typescript inserts.

1. The Valley of Lagoons, 57 leaves.
2. Every move you make, 27 leaves.
3. War Baby, [43] leaves, 41 hand numbered leaves.
4. Towards Midnight, 13 leaves.
5. Elsewhere, title handwritten in pencil on first page, 16 leaves.
6. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 41 leaves.
7. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 39 leaves.
8. The Domestic Cantata, 'Revised Version, 2' written on pencil of first page, 31 leaves.
9. 'Honey', 18 leaves, unpublished.

Draft, version 12, 117 leaves. The first five pages in two different versions, with handwritten emendations. Accompanied by a photocopy of a three-page letter from Ihab Hassan, 20 May 2007, with feedback on the manuscript.

A group of ten typescripts, sent by fax, [thermal paper has caused fading]

Three unpublished (?) literary typescripts: A propos hitch-hikers [Short story], headed by later pencilled manuscript note '1956/57 Unpublished', 8 leaves; Hippolytus. A free version after Euripides, script, photocopy with handwritten emendations, 57 numbered leaves, possible what was contributed by Malouf to the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama? ; photocopied typescript for characters from Don Giovanni (an opera by Mozart)?, 9 leaves.

Correspondence, incoming, from 1980-1983:
1980 – 31 letters: Jim Davidson (17 Apr, 19 Jun, 25 Jul, 18 Sep, 15 Oct 1980); Don Dunstan (6 Jul 1980); Geoffrey Dutton (28 Jun, 26 Dec 1980); Others (23).

1981 – 18 letters: Jim Davidson (6 May, 14 Jul, 8 Oct, 10 Nov 1981); Others (14).

1982 – 28 letters: Murray Bail (5 Jun 1982); Jim Davidson – Meanjin (10 Feb 1982); Don Dunstan (1); Jim Tulip (1); Robin Wallace-Crabbe (9 Jan 1982); Others (23).

1983 – 21 letters: Scripsi - Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, editors (9 Oct 1983); Norah Smallwood (21 Jan, 2 Aug 1983); Others (18)

Correspondence, incoming, from 1984-1985:
1984 – 30 letters: Geoffrey Dutton (2) ; Nin Dutton (1); Scripsi - Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, editors (1); Others (26).

1985 – 38 letters: Barry Humphries (1); Scripsi, - Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, editors (4); Jacki Weaver (1); Others (32).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1987-1988:
1987 – 50 letters: Luciana Arrighi (3); Alison Clark (1); Nin Dutton (3); Nick Enright (6); Kathy Lette (1); Ian Sinnamon (1); Peter Weir (1); Others (34).

1988 – 29 letters: Luciana Arrighi (1); Murray Bail – (1); Alison Clark (4); Nin Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); David Marr (1); Carlo Olivieri (1)
Others (19).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1989, undated:
1989 – 22 letters: Murray Bail (1); Michael Berkeley (1); Alison Clark (2); David Marr (2); Carlo Olivieri (1); Others (15).

1980s undated – 1 letter