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List of changes for An Imaginary Life

Eight leaves with handwritten and typescript lists of changes for the draft of An Imaginary Life. Last page has only a handwritten note 'for Christopher Edwards'. Undated.

Second typescript draft of Child's Play

One handwritten note by author about the accompanying '2nd typescript'. The second typescript is: the remaining pages from the original second typescript draft made in Rome in December 1980, which were heavily written over then retyped and replace pages for the final version. This second typescript draft was also heavily written over and to be used again in the final version. All pages are marked CP and numbered on the left top corner. This is the only surviving second typescript draft. 151 pages, Dec 1980.

Afterword draft for Fly Away Peter

One leaf, handwritten in blue ink, with notes by author on Afterword. Handwritten draft of the Afterword to Fly Away Peter, 5 pages, April 1981. Photocopy of typescript draft with handwritten emendations of the Afterword, 13 leaves, numbered 127 to 139,

Incomplete drafts of 12 Edmonstone Street [autobiographical essay]

Handwritten note by Malouf on contents of this subseries. Typescript note, originally intended as preface to 12 Edmonstone Street (1 leaf, typescript, handwritten emendations). Handwritten and typescript drafts, some incomplete, of 12 Edmonstone Street, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape, now degrading).

Handwritten and typescript drafts of Remembering Babylon

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).

Short story drafts for Every Move You Make

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 of Ransom [version 12]

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.

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