Archives Catalogue

Photographs of Marq de Villiers in the academic robes worn for the receipt of his honorary degree from Dalhousie University

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 8
File
October 2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs include one taken with President Tom Traves and Chancellor Fred Fountain, and one with his wife Sheila Hirtle.

Photographs of Boschendal farmhouse

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 5
File
[ca. 1980s]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains photographs of the family home of the de Villiers ca. 1717-1879.

Photographs for Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 8
File
2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs assembled and mounted to create a panoramic view of the shoreline from Mahone Bay to Mader's Cover

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 9
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains 13 photographs that have been cut and mounted onto five sheets of board to create a panoramic view of the shoreline from Mahone Bay to Mader's Cove. The photographs are numbered on the front with felt pen.

Photograph of two people at restaurant table wearing Toronto Life t-shirts

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 4
File
[199-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photograph of Marq de Villiers in a group portrait with his field hockey team at London University

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1960

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photograph of Marq de Villiers as a toddler with his oupa (grandfather), Johannes Jacobus de Villiers in Bloemfontein, South Africa

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 1
File
1943

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a small original print, a larger reproduction and a negative.

Photograph of Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle at Moscow’s Tretiakov Gallery, with Alla Gankina

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 2
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Personal correspondence and greeting cards kept by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 16
File
1966 - 2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Part VI : the Maghreb and the Barbary Shore : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 8
File
[1996?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.

Part IV : the Gulf of Guinea : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 9
File
1996

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, as well as a page with some suggested cuts.

Paranoid and pornographic stories / Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 1
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an unpublished manuscript of short stories and a rejection letter from the senior editor at Bantam Books.

Outline, manuscripts drafts and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 4
File
2005 - 2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes early manuscript drafts, outlines, research and editorial notes, production correspondence and a travel itinerary.

Our way out : principles for a post-apocalyptic world : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folders 1 and 2
File
[2011?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes marked-up manuscript and pages of editorial notes.

Operation Noah's Ark : a rite of a different passage / a treatment written by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 12
File
2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a treatment written for Oracle Television Productions, South Africa, and Alta Nova Pictures, Canada, for a one-hour documentary, as well as related correspondence and background materials.

Once again about a man and a woman / by Prof. A. Karchev

File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a translation of a Russian-language article published in Literaturnaya Gazeta on 19 August 1970.

Notes, correspondence and manuscript drafts for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1985 - 1987

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Notes for a book on Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 4
File
[2002?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an annotated 20-page manuscript, a chapter breakdown and handwritten notes.

Notebooks written during travels in Africa

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 6
File
1995 - 1998

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains four notebooks containing handwritten entries regarding research trips made throughout Africa between 1995 and 1998.

Newspaper obituaries for Rene Marquand de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1992

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Miscellaneous short manuscripts, transcripts and Russian newspaper clippings

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 17
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains a Russian newspaper clipping with an English synopsis attached and a 2-page story outline.

Memo from Marq de Villiers to Garth Drabinsky regarding "Ragtime: the book of the musical"

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 9
File
1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Marq de Villiers at his desk at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto

MS-2-825, Oversized Box 11, Folder 8
File
1974

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Manuscripts excerpts, notes and and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 5
File
2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Manuscript drafts of part 1, chapters 1-8, Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 4
File
[2001?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Manuscript chapters 7-40 from Saraha: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 1
File
[200-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains individually paginated short chapters (7-40) published as Saraha: A Natural History, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.

Manuscript about the Leningrad Catherine the Great monument

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 11
File
[ca. 1970]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains 34 photographs of the monument and of a Russian Orthodox church with wood-shingled onion domes.

Magazine and newspaper clippings of article, reviews and columns written by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1996 - 2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Letter from Stanley Colbert to Ismail M. Ayob regarding a proposal for an autobiography of Nelson Mandela edited by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 4
File
1989

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes two pages of handwritten notes.

Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League)

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 13
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language newspaper articles and a Russian-language pamphlet.

Jospeh Stalin

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 6
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles as well as English-language news clippings.

Into Africa : [manuscripts]

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes two versions of a book outline, including chapter breakdowns and notes about the authors, as well notes on potential lists. sidebars and areas of research interest.

Into Africa : a television journey through the ancient empires of the sun : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 15
File
1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Into Africa : a brief encapsulation and list of contents : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 14
File
1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes six pages of questions and answers regarding the manuscript and its author.

Hell and damnation : a user's guide to eternal torment : proposal by Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 7
File
2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a memo from Marq de Villiers to Shaun Bradley.

Geneaology research for Blood Traitors: The True Saga of Families Torn Apart by the Struggle for Independence in Revolutionary North America

MS-2-825, Box 8, Folders 1-11; Box 9, Folder 1
File
1991 - 1993

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains correspondence.

Genealogical research and correspondence re. a revised version or television production of Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 2
File
2002 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains two pages of notes respectively dated 1998 and 2001.

Exhile / Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 2
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

Early manuscript excerpts of Sahara and Sheila Hirtle's reader's notes for Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 5
File
[2001?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Dalhousie University 2011 convocation address on the occasion of the conferring an LLD on Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 14
File
2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 3
File
2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 3
File
2001 - 2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding rights for Heartbreak Grape and Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 5
File
2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding Marq de Villiers' studies at the London School of Economics

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1947, 1960-1962, 1987

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a photograph of Marq de Villiers' BA diploma from University of Cape Town, a letter regarding a school reunion for the Class of 1957, and a letter to Mrs de Villiers regarding her son's departure from the Boys' Junior School in Wynberg.

Correspondence regarding Marq de Villiers' Atkinson Lecture Series talk at Ryerson School of Journalism