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.

Typescript, 241 leaves, on white paper, handwritten emendations in blue and black pen and pencil, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). Cover note by Malouf 'Final copy before proof'. Accompanied by 4 leaves with handwritten note 'Rejected passage, from The Great World'. Photocopy, 1 leaf, of inside cover and title page of the published work.

Handwritten letter (2 double sided pages) from Nora Smallwood to author with editorial suggestions attached (3 leaves).

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

Explanatory note from David Malouf regarding the origins of the novel, 1leaf.
Drafts of an early version of The Great World, The Great World is a later version of a book originally titled ‘The Memorialists’. This typescript and handwritten draft comprises the material from this original version which was incorporated into The Great World. Approximately 323 leaves, extensive handwritten emendations, cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape), most pages have handwritten numbers in top right-hand corner, page numbers are out of sequence, undated.

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.

Eight leaves of handwritten notes, and 54 leaves of typescript, with handwritten emendations for the opera Voss.

Draft, version 12, 117 leaves. The first five pages in two different versions, with handwritten emendations. Accompanied by a photocopy of a three-page letter from Ihab Hassan, 20 May 2007, with feedback on the manuscript.

Handwritten and typescript draft of Part II of Harland's Half Acre, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, undated.

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.