Photocopy of music score for Act 2 of Voss, pages numbered 167-355.

Typescript draft of Invocation to Earth : An opera, Libretto by David Malouf, Music by Diana Blom. Text of chamber opera, 10 leaves, thermal photocopy (accompanied by preservation photocopy). Based on the poem Under the Wilgas by Mary Gilmore.

Typescript, handwritten emendations, and white-out corrections. Undated. Pages numbered in top right-hand corner. Accompanied by handwritten cover note by author: Version of stories from Antipodes, my own typing: early / late drafts".

A Foot in the Stream is part of 12 Edmonstone Street, a collection of autobiographical essays published by Chatto and Windus in 1985. This draft is an early typescript draft, with extensive handwritten emendations in blue ink, unnumbered pages, undated.

Typescript draft of 'The Changes', Part II of The Great World, mostly on white paper, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). This draft of part II of the novel has the chapter title page 'The Changes' (which was not used in the published novel). Original folder has been retained. On the inside cover it has page and word counts and page numbers for two of the three sections. Handwritten page numbers in top right-hand corner from 103 to 160.

Typescript draft of Part IV of The Great World, mostly on green paper, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). There are 3 sections in this file. Original folder has been retained. On the cover it has page and word counts and page numbers for 3 sections.

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

Typescript, version 7, 111 leaves, hand-numbered. A photocopy of the version 6 typescript, made before the editor’s amendations. This version with some identical and some different amendations in Malouf’s hand. A page of manuscript inserted at page 72.
It seems possible that Malouf and his editor were working alongside each other on these versions.

Draft, version 9, 114 leaves, with numerous amendations and manuscript additions, several post-it notes attached to margins.

Draft, version 11, 22 leaves, extracted from the 117 pages of this version. The other 95 pages were without any amendations and have not been retained.