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Correspondence between Marq de Villiers and June Goodwin and Ben Schiff regarding their manuscript

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 13
File
1994 - 1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence from Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle to Bruce Westward re. book ideas

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 8
File
1996, 1999

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a two-page outline of "The Food Book: An engaged history of food."

Correspondence re. a book proposal about five political rulers

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 10
File
1990 - 1991

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes letters to two of the proposed subjects, Willie Brandt and Julius Nyerere, as well as a brief description of the project.

Correspondence re. Exhile, an unpublished manuscript by Marq de Villier

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1973 - 1978

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes readers' reports and letters of rejection from publishers including McClelland & Stewart, House of Anansi and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Correspondence re. permissions for Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 15
File
2006 - 2007

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Where the horses run : the story of Sable island, a dune adrift in the Atlantic / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 2
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a revised, edited manuscript, editorial notes, and correspondence from Jacqueline Johnson, non-fiction editor at Walker Books.