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).

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.

Thirty-two short non-fiction typescripts with manuscript amendations, varying in length from 2 to 10 pages, together with a few pages of manuscript notes, undated.

Explanatory note from David Malouf regarding the origins of the novel, 1leaf.
Drafts of an early version of The Great World, The Great World is a later version of a book originally titled ‘The Memorialists’. This typescript and handwritten draft comprises the material from this original version which was incorporated into The Great World. Approximately 323 leaves, extensive handwritten emendations, cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape), most pages have handwritten numbers in top right-hand corner, page numbers are out of sequence, undated.

This file is comprised of handwritten notes and draft pages of Remembering Babylon on pages of various sizes, a small exercise book with a handwritten draft, and 106 typescript leaves. There is handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

A group of eight early draft typescripts of stories (two copies of one title), some still untitled, with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape). All but one published in Every move you make.

1. Untitled (The Valley of Lagoons, [38 leaves], 36 hand numbered leaves.
2. Untitled (Every Move You Make), 16 leaves.
3. Untitled (War Baby), [28 leaves], 26 hand numbered leaves.
4. Towards Midnight, 9 leaves.
5. Untitled (Elsewhere), 11 unnumbered leaves.
6. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 24 leaves, 2 versions, including first draft on green paper.
7. The Domestic Cantata, 9 unnumbered leaves.
8. 'Closer' - unpublished, 8 unnumbered leaves.

Manuscript, version 1, A5 size paper, [ca. 100 leaves], mostly on the back of other typescripts and draft (?) letters

Correspondence, incoming, from 1969 to 1973:
1960 – 1 letter: Clem Christesen [Clement Byrne Christesen, editor of Meanjin], writing to another writer (probably Judith Green, later Rodriguez – see note below) about Malouf’s poems submitted for publication,
Note from AUSTlit: One of Malouf's friends, Judith Green (later Rodriguez), sent some of his early manuscript poems to Clem Christesen and one of them, published in Meanjin, was Malouf's first published verse.].

1967 – 1 letter: Christopher Edwards (29 Oct 1967 – ‘Today I am 12 years old’).

1969 – 4 letters :Lillian Roxon (3 May 1969); Frank W Thompson and Roger McDonald (UQP) – 3 letters.

1970 – 11 letters: Bruce Dawe (31 Mar, 8 Apr 1970); Geoff Lehmann (19 Nov 1970); Les Murray (7 Jul 1970); UQP (Roger McDonald) (30 Jan, 16 Feb, 20 Feb, 23 Jun 1970); Others (3).

1971 – 3 letters: John Blight (12 Jan 1971); Les Murray (12 Jan 1971); Lillian Roxon (10 Dec 1971)

1972 – 1 letter: Christopher Edwards.

1973 – 2 letters : Gough Whitlam (3 Apr 1973), inviting Malouf to become a foundation member of the Literature Board; Others (1)

One handwritten page with notes for the first draft, which gives details of how the first draft was created. With the note is the first draft of Child's Play. This draft comprises handwritten and typescript leaves. Handwritten pages are in blue and red biro and some in black ink. Typescript leaves have extensive handwritten emendations. Undated.

Correspondence to David Malouf regarding the opera Voss:

1. Peter Hemmings to Malouf, 1p, 20 Mar 1979
2. Peter Hemmings to Malouf, 1p, 23 May 1979
3. Tim Curnow (Curtis Brown) to Malouf, 1p, 14 Jun 1979, includes two letters from Peter Hemming to Curnow
4. Antony Jeffrey to Malouf, 2p, 17 Aug 1979
5. Peter Hemmings to Malouf, 1p, 6 Sep 1979
6. Antony Jeffrey to Malouf, 1p, 18 Sep 1979
7. Jim Sherman to Malouf, postcard, 8 Oct 1979
8. Antony Jeffrey to Malouf, 1p, 13 Oct 1979
9. Richard Meale to Malouf, 2p, 13 Oct 1979
10. Richard Meale to Malouf, 2p, 16 Jun 1980
11. Antony Jeffrey to Malouf, 2p, 8 Jul 1980
12. Richard Meale to Malouf, 3p, 14 Mar 1981
13. Richard Meale to Malouf, 2p, 11 Aug 1981
14. Copy of letter from Moffatt Oxenbould, Artistic Administrator, Australian Opera to Tim Curnow regarding the contract for Voss, 1p, 2 Jun 1983
15. Richard Meale to Malouf, 1p, 4 Jul 1983
16. Stuart Challender to Malouf, 1p, 22 Apr 1986
17. Jim Sharman to Malouf, 4p, 29 Apr 1986