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Notes and correspondence relating to The tax inspector

UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 9-File 7
File
1991

Part of Peter Carey Papers

Correspondence, mostly from publishers and notes relating to The tax inspector.

Correspondence relating to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith.

UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 10-File 4
File
1993-1994.

Part of Peter Carey Papers

Correspondence with Faber & Faber and University of Queensland Press. Includes faxes and handwritten notes mostly regarding The unusual life of Tristan Smith, some about Collected stories and other stories, 30 Dec 1993 to 19 May 1994 and undated. Includes handwritten notes (from Alison Summer's?) regarding The Big Bazoohley.

Copy edited manuscript of The unusual life of Tristan Smith

UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 10-File 6
File
1994-1995.

Part of Peter Carey Papers

Copy edited manuscript returned to Peter Carey with a letter by Emma Platt of Faber and Faber, 24 May 1995; and a fax from Carey to Charles Boyle of Faber and Faber, with a list of changes, 16 Mar 1994.

Jack Maggs [novel] (1997)

UQFL164-Series A-Subseries 12
Subseries
1994-1997.

Part of Peter Carey Papers

Working titles for the novel Jack Maggs include 'Mags', 'The Old Dart' and 'The Somnambulist'. This subseries includes drafts (complete and incomplete), off-cuts, proofs and research material. Jack Maggs was winner the Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction 1997, Commonwealth Writers Prize 1998, and the Miles Franklin Award 1998.

Short stories

UQFL164-Series B
Series
1965?-1996.

Part of Peter Carey Papers

This series comprises manuscripts and drafts of unpublished and published short stories and short story collections. It also includes Carey's biographical story about the birth of his son Sam called A letter to our son

War crimes [short story collection] (1979)