Notes, research material and index cards for Illywhacker.

Extensive notes for The tax inspector including story outlines, characters, ideas.

Faxes (thermal paper and photocopied), dated August 1988. Printout of Peter Carey's first (incomplete) draft on continuous computer paper, September 1988. This material was in an envelope (now discarded) which had handwritten on front: 'Until the end of the world - note all dates on computer printouts are American style Month/Day/Year'.

Two drafts. One draft has printout date from footer 5/13/95, printout title Carey / GQ, 13 May 1995. Both drafts have 2 leaves and handwritten emendations.

Original manuscript of "The big bazoohley* returned from Henry Holt and Company to Peter Carey. Printout date from footer Sep 1994, titles in footer draft 6, 77 leaves, with handwritten emendations, post-it note emendations throughout, and accompanied by a letter from Brenda B [?] of Henry Holt and Company, 21 Aug 1995.

'Oscar and Lucinda launch', photocopies and newspaper cuttings of reviews, correspondence from publishers, UPQ programme for Adelaide Writers Week, itineraries, corrections to the book, book cover, correspondence, 1987 to 1988.

First page proofs for "The big bazoohley* for the Henry Holt and Company publication in the United States, 115 leaves, with some handwritten emendations, and accompanied by a letter from Albert LaFarge, Associate Editor of John Macrae Books, 24 Apr 1995.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and material related to properties associated with or important to Peter Carey such as Yandina, Browns Creek and Lovett Bay.

Photocopies of six published short stories. Stories are: Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran (1973); Crabs (1972); The mad puzzle king (1973); Joe (1973); Life and death in the south side pavilion (1974); and Report on the shadow industry (1974).

Publicity photographs of Peter Carey: 4 black and white photographs of varying sizes ; 2 contact sheets of Carey in London, 39 photographs on each sheet, 5 Apr 1988; and 1 colour photograph from Writers Week in Adelaide, 1988.