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.

Correspondence, incoming, from 1989, undated:
1989 – 22 letters: Murray Bail (1); Michael Berkeley (1); Alison Clark (2); David Marr (2); Carlo Olivieri (1); Others (15).

1980s undated – 1 letter

Correspondence, incoming, from 1987-1988:
1987 – 50 letters: Luciana Arrighi (3); Alison Clark (1); Nin Dutton (3); Nick Enright (6); Kathy Lette (1); Ian Sinnamon (1); Peter Weir (1); Others (34).

1988 – 29 letters: Luciana Arrighi (1); Murray Bail – (1); Alison Clark (4); Nin Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); David Marr (1); Carlo Olivieri (1)
Others (19).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1986:
1986 – 37 letters: Luciana Arrighi (2); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Nick Enright (4); Others (30).

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

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).

The Kyogle Line is part of 12 Edmonstone Street, a collection of autobiographical essays published by Chatto and Windus in 1985. Three typescript leaves, with handwritten emendations in blue and red ink, unnumbered pages, undated. Seven photocopied leaves of the typescript draft with handwritten emendations: the first leaf is titled 'Inset' (which is to be inserted on page 5 of the next six leaves); there are six leaves, with the title' The Kyogle Line', numbered in the top right-hand corner, undated.

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.

Correspondence, incoming, from 1984-1985:
1984 – 30 letters: Geoffrey Dutton (2) ; Nin Dutton (1); Scripsi - Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, editors (1); Others (26).

1985 – 38 letters: Barry Humphries (1); Scripsi, - Michael Heyward and Peter Craven, editors (4); Jacki Weaver (1); Others (32).