Draft, rich text format printout, version 4 (this and subsequent versions typed by Christopher Edwards), 114 leaves, hand-numbered, dated in top right-hand corner 19/02/06, with some handwritten emendations. The first three chapters have titles which have been crossed out. Chapter titles are used in document title up to Chapter three and then change to chapter numbers.

Comprises: The Long View. For male choir. Music by Noel Ancell. The Crab Feast. For piano and percussion. Music by Eve Duncan. An die Musik. For SATB choir. By Andrew Ford. The text is based on Malouf’s poem of the same name, poems by Gwen Harwood and Thomas Shapcott as well as folk poems from Malaysia, the Pueblo Indians and Finland.

Correspondence, incoming, from 2005-2007:
2005 – 8 letters: Gail Jones (3); Others (5).

2006 – 14 letters: Bruce Beresford (1); Espie Dods (1); Ihab Hassan (2); Gail Jones (1); John Ralston Saul (2); Jaya Savige (1); Penelope Seidler (1 - thanking him for speaking at the Harry Seidler Memorial); Others (5).

2007 – 15 letters: Ihab Hassan (1); David and Ethel Rowbotham (1); Jaya Savige (4); Others (9).

Correspondence, incoming, from 2002-2004:
2002 – 26 letters: Nick Enright (1); Ihab Hassan (3); David Rowbotham (2); Jaya Savige (3); John Ralston Saul (1); Others (16).

2003 – 12 letters: Bruce Beresford (1); Ihab Hassan (2); Geoffrey Lehmann (1); Jaya Savige (2); Others (6).

2004 – 12 letters: Bruce Beresford (1); Ihab Hassan (1); Gail Jones (1); Jaya Savige (2); Others (7).

This subseries consists of a copy of a letter from David Malouf to Yvonne Smith discussing the writing of An Imaginary Life, and extracts selected and typed by David Malouf from the diary he kept when writing An Imaginary Life. The letter and diary extracts show that the various pieces were written within a short time frame, commencing with the “poppy passage” on Sunday 24th October 1976 and with the rest following soon after.
Comprises: Photocopy of original letter from David Malouf to Yvonne Smith, 29 Nov 2001, 4 p., handwritten [original water-damaged]; Typed copy of letter from David Malouf to Yvonne Smith, 29 Nov 2001, 3 p.; Photocopy of diary extracts selected and typed by David Malouf from the diary he kept when writing An Imaginary Life, 21 Oct 1976 to 10 Nov 1976, 3 p., typescript [original water-damaged]; Re-typed version of the diary extracts, with explanatory material by Yvonne Smith, 4 p.

Correspondence, incoming, from 2000-2001:
2000 – 27 letters: Michael Berkeley (1); John Coetzee (14 Jan 2000); Nin Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); Ihab Hassan (1); Cees Nooteboom (11 Jul 2000); David Rowbotham (2); Others (19).

2001 – 24 letters: Ihab Hassan (3); David Rowbotham (3); Jaya Savige (2); Others (16).

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.

Correspondence, incoming, from 1999:
1999 – 41 letters: Bille Brown (1); Carmen Callil (2); Dymphna Clark (2); Nick Enright (1); John Kinsella (1); Geoffrey Lehmann (1); David Rowbotham (5); Others (28).

The Fox and the Magpie. A divertissement for two voices and four instruments. By David Malouf. Music by Kurt Schwertsik, 24 pages, spiral bound.

Correspondence, incoming, from 1998:
1998 – 39 letters: Carmen Callil (11 Jul 1998); Ian Callinan (26 Nov 1998); Dymphna Clark (7 Feb, 9 Aug 1998); Don Dunstan and Steven Cheng (1); Geoffrey Dutton (9 Sep 1998 – eight days before his death); Nin Dutton (10 Sep, 26 Sep 1998); Margaret Olley (21 Dec 1998 – enclosing a photograph of Malouf and unknown); David Rowbotham (14 Dec 1998); Lurline Stuart (27 Sep 1998 – ten days after Geoffrey Dutton’s death); Others (27).