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

Correspondence, incoming, from 1996:
1996 – 42 letters: Dymphna Clark (1); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Nin Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); Elizabeth Jolley (1); Kate Grenville (1); David Marr (1); David Rowbotham (1); Others (34).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1995:
1995 – 17 letters: Michael Berkeley (1); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Robyn Davidson (1); Others (14).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1994:
1994 – 45 letters: Murray Bail (2); Geoffrey Dutton (1); Nick Enright (1); Elizabeth Jolley (1); Manoly Lascaris (1); David Rowbotham (1)
Phyllis Webb (4); Others (34).

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.

This file is comprised of approximately 194 draft pages, various sizes, some handwritten, some typescript, all heavily corrected in blue and black biro, blue ink and pencil. There is handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

Typescript draft, 276 leaves, handwritten emendations in blue and black biro, blue ink and pencil, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

Correspondence, incoming, from 1993:
1993 – 46 letters: Dymphna Clark (4); Don Dunstan (1); Geoffrey Dutton and Robin Lucas (1); Nin Dutton (2); Nick Enright (2); Kate Grenville (1); Thomas Keneally (23 Sep 1993); Others (34).

Remembering Babylon, set mainly in a mid-nineteenth-century settlement in Queensland, is a compressed epic, centering on the theme of exile and the strange challenge posed by one who, like William Buckley, had lived with the Aborigines, becoming ‘a white black man.’ It was first published in 1993. This subseries consists of six folders of notes, handwritten drafts, three typescripts with many handwritten corrections and additions, publishers’ proofs with many corrections, and a re-typed transcript with corrections throughout.

Publisher's page proofs of Remembering Babylon, 202 pages, front cover removed, handwritten emendations.