Typescript draft of part I of The Great World, on green paper, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape). This draft is missing most of the first page of the novel. It has the title page of the novel and a chapter title page 'Keen's Crossing' (which was not used in the published novel). The folder has been retained. It has page and word counts for each section, and calculations for typing these pages.

Typescript drafts with handwritten note across top of first page: 'Typescript of opera libretto suggeted by supposed episode in the 'Life of Mary Gilmour' c. 1792 - for composer Diane (Dinty) Blom', 7 leaves.

Original typescript and photocopied typescript draft of Harland's Half Acre, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape, now degrading).

[First] typescript version of Harland’s Half Acre, 265 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, some pages out of sequence, some pages are duplicated. Undated.

Handwritten and typescript draft of Harland's Half Acre, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, approximately 200 pages, parts I to IV complete, part V incomplete, parts I to III dated at the end.

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

Three unpublished (?) literary typescripts: A propos hitch-hikers [Short story], headed by later pencilled manuscript note '1956/57 Unpublished', 8 leaves; Hippolytus. A free version after Euripides, script, photocopy with handwritten emendations, 57 numbered leaves, possible what was contributed by Malouf to the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama? ; photocopied typescript for characters from Don Giovanni (an opera by Mozart)?, 9 leaves.

The Prowler, a short story, was first published in 1982 with the novella Child's Play and short story Eustace. Further editions were published in 1983 and 1999, and The Prowler was included in Malouf’s The Complete Stories published in 2007. There are three drafts in this subseries. Possibly the first draft is: typescript, on 25 x 20.5 cm paper, 11 leaves, extensive handwritten emendations in biro, unnumbered pages, incomplete, and undated. Second draft: typescript, on 23.5 x 14.5 cm, extensive handwritten emendations in biro, unnumbered pages, last page has word count and note '2nd draft Sept 12-13-14 '79). Draft typescript: 34 leaves, first leaf has handwritten title 'The Prowler', handwritten emendations, 29.5 x 22 cm, and undated.

In The Great World Malouf enters familiar Australian territory with a story of war experience and mateship. The narrative contrasts the personalities of two men and their experiences in the Second World War, Digger Keen, the archetypal, taciturn Australian, gifted with a photographic memory, and Vic Curran, whose ambition and drive take him from poverty to the top of the business world. The Great World was first published in 1990 and won the Miles Franklin Award in 1991, the Adelaide Festival Award and two international awards, the 1991 Commonwealth Prize for fiction and the Prix Femina Etranger in France for the best foreign novel. This subseries consists of a draft early version of the novel, originally titled ‘The Memorialists’, the first handwritten draft of the novel, and a typescript draft in five parts with many handwritten corrections and additions.

The Fox and the Magpie. A divertissement for two voices and four instruments. By David Malouf. Music by Kurt Schwertsik, 24 pages, spiral bound.