Contains corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of Bicycle and Other Poems, Johnno, An Imaginary Life, Child's Play, Eustace, The Prowler, Fly Away Peter, Harland's Half Acre, Antipodes : Stories, 12 Edmonstone Street, The Great World, Remembering Babylon, The Conversations at Curlow Creek, Every Move You Make, and Ransom. Most of the typescript drafts have handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and past inserts (attached with sticky tape). These drafts give a good insight into how Malouf wrote and amended his works.

Typescript, handwritten emendations, and white-out corrections. Undated.

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

Typescript, version 8, pp 1 – 20 (of 113), with a few amendations and an additional paragraph inserted at page 19. The other 93p were without any amendations and have not been retained.

[Complete] typescript version of Harland’s Half Acre, 248 leaves, typescript, photocopied and handwritten, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape, now degrading). Handwritten page numbers in top right-hand corner of most leaves, pages numbered out of sequence, some sticky tape inserts have come loose. Undated.

Typescript, handwritten emendations, and white-out corrections. Undated.

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

Typescript, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). Undated.

Typescript draft of Part V 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