Notes, research material and index cards for Illywhacker.

Typescript draft with emendations, photocopied, for pages 473-503 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker).

Drafts for Book 1 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker), most with handwritten amendments. Original folders may have notes.

Oscar and Lucinda had the working titles 'Orphans', 'Broken Glass', and 'Holy Ghost'. Published in 1988 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. In the same year it won the Book Council Award (Australia), Booker Prize for Fiction (Australia) and Miles Franklin Award. Includes: Complete and incomplete drafts of Oscar and Lucinda and its working titles, including corrections, notes, correspondence, research material, publicity material, reviews, speech notes for the launch of Oscar and Lucinda. Oscar and Lucinda has won the Booker Prize 1988, Miles Franklin Award 1989, NBC Banjo Award 1989, Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award 1988, and the Festival Award for Literature (South Australia) 1990.

Drafts for Book 2 of 'Pets' (Illywhacker), most with handwritten amendments. Original folders may have notes.

Handwritten on title page 'Illywhacker by Peter Carey. Faber. Not setting copy books 1-3'. It consists of 907 leaves, typescript with mss corrections. Loose leaves tied in a bundle. Date on the last page (27/2/1984) is crossed out.

Emendations on photocopy of selected pages of Illywhacker. Previously housed in envelope (discarded) with handwritten note 'Illywhacker : final corrections' on front.

Photocopied typescript draft with emendations, undated.

'Book 2' on cover; '"Illywhacker" : a novel by Peter Carey' on title page. 'Illywhacker' is written on a sticky label that has been placed over the title 'Pets', pp. 309-564 in 1 bound volume, with mms corrections. [Inserted in this volume was the contents of UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 2-Item 6].

'Book 1' on cover; '"Illywhacker" : a novel by Peter Carey' on title page. 'Illywhacker' is written on a sticky label that has been placed over the title 'Pets', 1-308 leaves in 1 bound volume, undated.