Editorial material re: 12 Edmondstone Street
• Letter from Jeremy Lewis, Chatto & Windus to David Malouf, 20 Mar 1985, 1 page
• Editorial queries, 4 pages, typescript
• Revisions, 8 pages, typescript
• Insertions, 13 pages, photocopy of typescript

Photocopy of typescript (with handwritten emendations), some corrections of the photocopy in red pen, last page is original typscript, 42 leaves, undated, most pages numbered at top right-hand corner with some errors.

Handwritten drafts of The Great World, 140 pages on white four-ring notepaper and 31 pages on green notepaper, handwritten in blue ink and black biro, with many corrections and additions. Some pages have page numbers in top right-hand corner.

This file is comprised of approximately 198 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).

Draft typescript, 209 numbered leaves, 8 leaves inserted, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

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

The file is comprised of: Early notes for dialogue, 2 leaves ; Letter to Richard Meale from Malouf, 1 leaf, 20 Jun 1979, with early dialogue notes on verso; Marked up copy of the Penguin Modern Classics 1960 published edition of Voss by Patrick White, sections of text marked in black pen, handwritten notes on last page and inside back cover.

Rehearsal notes for Voss, by Christopher Williams. Copy for David Malouf. [Note: Company notes on first performance of Voss, Adelaide, 1986, March]

Correspondence, incoming, from 1996:
1996 – 42 letters: Dymphna Clark (1); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Nin Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); Elizabeth Jolley (1); Kate Grenville (1); David Marr (1); David Rowbotham (1); Others (34).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1997:
1997 – 31 letters: Dymphna Clark (1); Margaret Olley (31 Jan - enclosing a photograph of Malouf and Philip Bacon); Others (29)