Correspondence, incoming, from 1990:
1990 – 41 letters: Luciana Arrighi (1); Michael Berkeley (3); Alison Clark (4); Nick Enright (1); Elizabeth Jolley (1); Others (31).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1991:
1991 – 51 letters:
Murray Bail (2);
Alison Clark (3);
Dymphna Clark (1);
Nin Dutton (18 Apr 1991);
Nick Enright (1);
Kate Grenville (1);
Elizabeth Jolley (8 Jul 1991);
David Marr (27 Jun 1991 – ‘I’ve now seen the PW [Patrick White] book […]. I took the first copy round to show Manoly. […] Even though it was cold we had tea on the terrace and M started telling me things I wish I had in the book. He talked about meeting Patrick: that first night they went out for a meal. M said, ‘I found I could talk to him. He understood what I was saying and I understood him […]. We talked for hours. He made me happy at once, and I think I made him happy.’ I’d have given pages of my own prose to have ‘He made me happy at once…’;
Drusilla Modjeska (1);
Frank Moorhouse (6 Nov, 26 Nov 1991);
Janette Turner Hospital (15 Apr, 22 Oct 1991);
Others (35).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1992:
1992 – 36 letters: Luci Arrighi (1); Murray Bail (3); Alison Clark (2); Nin Dutton (1); David Marr (1); Others (28).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1995:
1995 – 17 letters: Michael Berkeley (1); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Robyn Davidson (1); Others (14).

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).

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).

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.

One-page working plan, 17 Mar 1980, together with newspaper article Come sono lontani da Bakunin questi burocrati del terrorismo from La Nazione, which in Malouf’s words ‘was the spur’

One leaf, handwritten in blue ink, with details of accompanying typescript. First typescript draft, written in Brisbane in April 1981, handwritten emendations in blue ink, hand written numbering on all pages (one is missed), 105 [sic 106] leaves. Accompanied by small note about a mistake in numbering of pages numbers 3 and 4 (not counted in total number of leaves).

One leaf, handwritten in blue ink, with details of accompanying typescript. Second typescript draft, written in Brisbane in April - May 1981, handwritten emendations in red and black, handwritten numbering on all pages (one is missed), 126 [sic 127] leaves.