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

'The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn new truths. Outside the hut, Adair's troopers sit uneasily, reflecting on their own pasts and futures, waiting for the morning to come. With ironic humour and in prose of starkly evocative power, the novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice, reason and un-reason. , the workings of fate, and the small measure of freedom a man may claim in the face of death.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
This sub-series contains handwritten and typescript drafts, with emendations.

Draft typescript, 209 numbered leaves, 8 leaves inserted, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

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.

Draft, version 14. Version 13 with only very few minor corrections has not been not retained. Handwritten emendations, 112 leaves, many notes on post-it notes attached to the margins, with additional typed paragraph on A5 paper at p. 5, and with additional 3 typescript pages after pages 9 and 19.

Unpublished typescripts by David Malouf.

Comprises:

1. Diary entries on Child’s Play and Fly Away Peter, Jan and Feb 1981, removed from annual calendar, titled on front page.
2. Diary of a trip to Lebanon and Syria with Carmen Callil [editor at Chatto & Windus], Apr 1994, A6 notebook, [Ca. 100p].
3. Typescript from a diary: account of a trip to Lebanon and Syria in 1994 with Carmen Callil, for printing an anthology, 19p, undated.
4. Copy of extract from water-stained diary together with ‘typed extracts from a personal diary kept by David Malouf from October to December 1976', with relevance to the material in the subseries for An Imaginery Life.

Ten typescript book reviews of non-fiction books, 3-4 pages each, for the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s (ABC’s) Books for comment programme, second half of 1969. Includes: two drafts with emendations; and eight final scripts with an ABC ‘With compliments’ slip attached.
Typescript titled 'The Poetry of John Bligh' on foolscap paper headed Australian Broadcasting Commission, no date. 14 pages.