'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.

Unpublished typescripts by David Malouf.

Voss is an opera in two acts based on the novel by Patrick White. The score is by Richard Meale and the libretto by David Malouf. This subseries includes a handwritten outline of Voss, a typescript of the libretto with many handwritten corrections, and a photocopy of the music score, inscribed by Richard Meale to David Malouf.

Correspondence relating to research on Ernest White and Nindooimbah.

Correspondence relating to Duckett White family history.

Correspondence and documents relating to Albert White, William Duckett White's second son. 'The Story of the Whites of Bluff Downs' manuscript written by Maud Mills (nee White), granddaughter of William Duckett White.

Correspondence and documents relating to Helena White, daughter of William Duckett White. It also includes documents relating to the Mylnes family (known as the Lota Mylnes) and self-published copy of 'The Lota Magazine' December 1988, produced for a family reunion.

Materials belonging to and created by Alexander Rose Macdonald

Material relating to the war service, death and memorialisation of Captain James Shaw Rose Macdonald, commonly known as Jim.

Folders containing correspondence, genealogical notes, photographs, drafts, newspaper cuttings, family trees, and ephemera used by Michael White in the compilation of 19th Century Pioneer: Frank Villeneuve Nicholson Family in Australia.