Brochures, travel and tourism information, accommodation information and correspondence relating to Far North Queensland and Port Douglas. Some of this information may relate to details in the short story 'Port Douglas'.

Nine typescripts, with handwritten notes, of transcripts for people from Thursday Island. Includes a list of names with the heading 'Faces & Voices from Thursday Island' (eight of the names have transcripts) and an envelope addressed to Carey with the date stamp of 18 May 1971.

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.

Three drafts of A small memorial, published in New Yorker on 25 September 1995 and Four easy pieces in 2002. Printout title from footer 'Revised Draft #1', printout date 22 May 1995, 16 leaves, plus one page of handwritten notes; Printout title from footer 'Author's corrected draft', 25 May 1995, 16 leaves, with handwritten emendations; Printout title from footer 'Corrected draft #2', 2 Jul 1995, 14 leaves. This is a memoir about his first wife's abortion and miscarriages.

Copy of Peter Carey's profile by Lisa Meyer and her interview questions and answers, 25 leaves, with handwritten emendations. Accompanying by letter (dated 21 Aug 1995). Published as An interview with Peter Carey in the Chicago Review in 1997.

Transcript of interview with Peter Carey and Robert Polito, 36 leaves, with handwritten note by Peter Carey on first page dated 11/8/95. Interview was published in Bomb on 1 Jan 1996 (issue also included).

Two drafts of the article From an alien to his second son, published in HQ Magazine in 1993. One has 'First draft' written above title, with handwritten emendations, 6 leaves, undated. The other draft has 7 numbered leaves and is undated.

Three drafts of a speech entitled 'Making it up', all of which start 'You have, standing before you, the person who - well, I was a teenager, I admit but still...'. One draft is incomplete with 4 leaves, and the title in the footer says 'Literary Lunch Spech, Tax Insp. Launch'; the next has 6 unnumbered leaves; and the last has in the footer the title 'FDU Speech', page leaves numbered 1-10, 19 Oct 1992.

Two drafts, 25 Apr and 13 May 1994.

Page proofs, layout design, queries, corrections for University of Queensland Press edition of A letter to our son. Letters and faxes from Rosie Fitzgibbons, University of Queensland Press, and Michael Ward Designs, August 1994.