Remembering Babylon, set mainly in a mid-nineteenth-century settlement in Queensland, is a compressed epic, centering on the theme of exile and the strange challenge posed by one who, like William Buckley, had lived with the Aborigines, becoming ‘a white black man.’ It was first published in 1993. This subseries consists of six folders of notes, handwritten drafts, three typescripts with many handwritten corrections and additions, publishers’ proofs with many corrections, and a re-typed transcript with corrections throughout.

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).

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).

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).

Typescript draft, 276 leaves, handwritten emendations in blue and black biro, blue ink and pencil, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

Printed on continuous computer paper, this typescript draft of Remembering Babylon has handwritten emendations in blue and black biro, blue and red ink and pencil, white-out corrections, separated at paper perferations at the end of each chapter, with some perferations pasted together with sticky tape.

Publisher's page proofs of Remembering Babylon, 202 pages, front cover removed, handwritten emendations.

From inserted cover note written by David Malouf: "Early (first?) manuscript draft of first 8 chapters of Remembering Babylon. In A5 exercise journal, 54 leaves (partly numbered) with text on rectos

'The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn new truths. Outside the hut, Adair's troopers sit uneasily, reflecting on their own pasts and futures, waiting for the morning to come. With ironic humour and in prose of starkly evocative power, the novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice, reason and un-reason. , the workings of fate, and the small measure of freedom a man may claim in the face of death.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
This sub-series contains handwritten and typescript drafts, with emendations.

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.