'You can’t think of everything'. Opera in one act, after Alfred de Musset. Typescript with amendations, 9 leaves, [David Malouf’s 2017 note: Chamber opera libretto for Diana Blom. Ca. 1977. Music unwritten]

Art work depicting David Malouf by Neil Moore. Pen and ink half-length portrait of David Malouf. Signed above the sitter’s right shoulder. Undated.

One-page working plan, 17 Mar 1980, together with newspaper article Come sono lontani da Bakunin questi burocrati del terrorismo from La Nazione, which in Malouf’s words ‘was the spur’

Voss is an opera in two acts based on the novel by Patrick White. The score is by Richard Meale and the libretto by David Malouf. This subseries includes a handwritten outline of Voss, a typescript of the libretto with many handwritten corrections, and a photocopy of the music score, inscribed by Richard Meale to David Malouf.

Typescript, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). Undated. Pages numbered in top right-hand corner. Accompanied by handwritten cover note by author: Version of stories from Antipodes, my own typing: early / late drafts".

Typescript, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). Undated. Pages numbered in top right-hand corner. Accompanied by handwritten cover note by author: Version of stories from Antipodes, my own typing: early / late drafts".

Unpublished typescripts by David Malouf.

Two publications and 26 published reviews, articles, short stories, speeches and interviews.
Folder 1: The School Window, Brisbane Grammar School, no. 8, Sept 1948. Contains an illustration on page 11 and three stories by David Malouf, Form IV. A. The stories are: Dream Journey, pages 18-19; The Longest Hour, page 26, winner of the first Thomas Thatcher Memorial Prize; Et tu, Brute, page 28.

Malouf, D., & Australian Broadcasting Corporation. (1999). A spirit of play : the making of Australian consciousness, Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 128 pages, with many manuscript emendations.

Folder 2:
A group of 26 published reviews, articles, short stories, speeches and interviews, extracted from magazines and newspapers. Includes: What we know – A Meditation on Experience, Knowledge and Memory. An edited version of an address delivered at the Supreme Court of New South Wales Annual Conference on 13 June 1997. Extract from Judicial Officers’ Bulletin. Vol. 9, No. 11. December Pp. 81/82 and 87/88.

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

Draft typescript [by Chris Edwards], [180 leaves] with handwritten emendations [by David Malouf], in blue and black biro, blue ink and pencil, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape), and handwritten inserts.