Archives Catalogue

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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File contains an unpublished manuscript of short stories and a rejection letter from the senior editor at Bantam Books.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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

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.

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 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 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 old Lunenburg houses and barns in winter

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 3
File
[198-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs of South Carolina taken in the course of research for Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 11
File
[199-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains photographs of lanes and pre-revolutionary Charleston architecture; the countryside near Charleston; the Town of Ninety-Six; "up country"; 69 Fox Street; St George's Church, London, UK; and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of tribal African jewelery

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs taken by Marq de Villiers and/or Sheila Hirtle during the course of researching Down the Volga

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1990]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains largely unidentified colour prints of buildings, landscapes and sometimes people in Russia taken on a trip by Marq de Villier and Sheila Hirtle.

Press releases and newspaper clippings regarding Marq de Villers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1984 - 2012

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains program notes and related correspondence for speaking engagements and lectures.

Publicity and readers' correspondence regarding Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 7
File
2004 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 1
File
2004 - 2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Blood Traitors: The True Saga of Families Torn Apart by the Struggle for Independence in Revolutionary North America

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Down the Volga in a Time of Troubles

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 2
File
1991 - 1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1997 - 1998

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Our Way Out: First Principles for a Post-Apocalyptic World

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 3
File
2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 7
File
2008 - 2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 6
File
1993 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 6
File
1992 - 2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Publicity and reviews for Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 7
File
2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 4
File
1999 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1999 - 2000

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Publicity and reviews for Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 2
File
2006 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Witch in the Wind

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 8
File
2006 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publishing agreements

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 5
File
2011, 2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a publishing agreement with Goose Lane for a book provisionally called Floating Currency (later published as Back to the Well); a memorandum of agreement with China Renmin University Press for Our Way Out; and an agreement amendment with McClelland & Stewart regarding Water, A Dune Adrift and Windswept.

Restoration of Manas tomb

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 17
File
[ca. 1969]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article, as well as notes about monument restoration.

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1988 - 1990

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 9
File

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1987 - 1988

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Reviews and press releases for Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 6
File
2002 - 2203

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes correspondence from MacClelland & Stewart reporting on the publicity campaign.

Reviews for Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 6
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Russian-language theatre programs

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 20
File
[ca. 1969-1971]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Sable Island : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 5
File
[200-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an extended treatment for a possible television program about Sable Island.

Sahara : [partial manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 4
File
[200-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains pages 43-132 of an early manuscript version of Sahara: A Natural History, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.

Saraha : a natural history of the greatest desert on earth / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 3
File
December 2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains pages 1-213 of the manuscript.

Saraha : [manuscript]

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an early, edited version of what was published as Sahara: A Natural History, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.

Six book ideas by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 11
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains six book ideas in various levels of detail, including: Aimery Picaud and the Route to Compostella; The Moon Book; Marginalia (the gap between the enfranchised and the disenfranchised in America): Many a Wild Dance (profiles of female explorers); Kingdom (the last remaining true monarchies); and The Very Worst Things That Can Happen.

Slug bard : [manuscript]

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

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