Note on title page: approx. 2,000 words.

Contents includes:
596a: Letter from E.F. Bozman of J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. to Val Vallis 1960 Jul 29 re possible titles for inclusion in J.M. Dent's series of Australian classics in Everyman's Library;
596b: Val Vallis's reply 1960 Nov 2;
596c: Memorandum of agreement 1948 Mar 12 between Val Vallis and Angus and Robertson Ltd. of Sydney;
596d: Poem 'December Sunday, Hyde Park, London' with explanatory note by author;
596e: Poems: 'The jerry-builder', 'Venture at Outer Rock', 'For this, the tide', 'To a poet, begetting', 'The mullet-smoker', 'High tide by night', 'Song for a moonlit night';
596f: Poem 'The mullet-smoker';
596g: Poem 'Tea at four', also entitled 'Old lady at 3:30' and '3:30';
596h: Poem 'Wave-break' with 5 work-sheets showing its development, prepared in response to a request from the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo (poem subsequently published in The Bulletin 1952 Dec 31 and included in 'Australian poetry 1953');
596i: Radio script: 'A discussion of the main characteristics of Australian poetry', senior school broadcast script, 1965 Jun;
596j: Radio script: 'The Australian short story', secondary school broadcast script, 1953 Mar 30.
Titles: December Sunday, Hyde Park, London.-- The jerry-builder.-- Venture at Outer Rock.-- For this, the tide.-- To a poet, begetting.-- The mullet-smoker.-- High tide by night.-- Song for a moonlit night.-- Tea at four.-- Wave-break.
Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons re Everyman's Library of Australian classics, memorandum of agreement with Angus and Robertson in 1948, drafts of poems and radio scripts.

Typescript short stories with ms emendations. Accompanied by covering letter 1954 Dec 2 to Miss Beatrice Davis, Angus & Robertson Ltd. Apparently unpublished. Comprises: 'Van Dieman's land' / Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke; 'The diggings in 1855' / Waif Wander; 'Art and artitfice' / J. P. (Jack Philip) McKinney; 'The Main Road' / Roy Bridges; 'The early Victorian' J. H. M. (John Henry Macartney) Abbott; 'Mulligan Taubada' / Osmar White; 'The King of Luggertown' / Vance Palmer; 'Collecting the evidence' / Gavin Casey; 'Reunion' / Margaret Fane; 'Reunion'/ Hilary Joseph Frances Lofting; 'We'll all go to the sea' / Frances J. Moon; 'Why did they look at Mr Smith?' / J. B. Warren; 'Safe horizon' / Jon Cleary.