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Marq de Villiers fonds

MS-2-825
Fonds
1943 - 2016

Fonds comprises records documenting Marq de Villiers' work as a journalist and writer of non-fiction. Record types include manuscripts and published work—including collaborations with his wife, Sheila Hirtle; correspondence; publicity and reviews; and a small series of personal photographs and photographs taken in the course of his research.

de Villiers, Marq

Correspondence and itineraries for White Tribe Dreaming launch

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1987 - 1988

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

Correspondence from readers regarding White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1987 - 1991

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes correspondence from the University Of Cape Town Libraries regarding the publication embargo on letters written by Robert Sobukwe to Nell Marquand.

Being an investigation into how another society regards its Black citizens / Marq de Viliers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 5
File
[196-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File is an undated manuscript with the full title "Being an Investigation into how another Society regards its Black citizens and the Role assigned to them; the sources being the Acts and Fancies of the People as appear in the columns of their daily Journals, or, The Racial Bag: Some More Groovy Prejudices." The manuscript includes a brief glossary of terms, newspapers transcriptions as well as pasted clippings.

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.

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 Witch in the Wind

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

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

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.

Clippings and copies of Marq de Villier's newspaper and magazine writing

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1966 - 1978

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains scrapbook pages removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor, and includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles and correspondence.

Clippings and copies of Marq de Villier's newspaper and magazine writing

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1966 - 1978

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains scrapbook pages removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor, and includes newspaper clippings and magazine articles.

A history of the de Villiers family / D.P. de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1960

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Sobuke letters : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 1
File
[1974?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains a news release announcing the closure of the Toronto Telegram's Moscow bureau, which includes the statement: "The Telegram says Marq de Villiers, who succeeded Mr. Einfrank, is being withdrawn after being 'formally reprimanded and accused of damaging Soviet-Canadian relations'."

Childhood photographs of Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 10
File
1944

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a photograph of Marq de Villiers as a small child, wearing a pith helmet and holding a sand shovel, and a photograph marked on the back with "Marq's oupa [grandfather] looking at the dam [with] Terry and Jennifer, Leo's children." On Marq's website, this image appears with the caption: "With grandfather and sister, surveying the state of the world’s water, 1944."

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.

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 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

Sunday Times literary awards commemorative edition 1989-2014

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 4
File
2014

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a book containing an entry for Marq de Villier's White Tribe Dreaming, which won the inaugural Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 1989.

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.

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.

Clippings and of article by Marq de Villiers published in The Toronto Telegraph

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1968 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

Two photographs assembled to create a view of schooners moored in front of the Marine Museum in London, UK

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 10
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

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

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 re. permissions for Timbuktu

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

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

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.

Soviet Union economy — budgets and plans

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 18
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a 1971 report from the Institute of the Study of the USSR; two copies of the Daily Review: Translations from the Soviet Press (1969 and 1970); and a translation of a USSR Council of Ministers speech about the state economic development plan for 1970.

Soviet Union economy — management

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 19
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of speeches and Russian-language newspaper clippings.

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

Soviet Union economy — prospects

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 20
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a translation of a speech by Leonid Brezhnev and English-language newspaper clippings.

Soviet Union economy — theories and reforms

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 21
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes Russian- and English-language newspaper clippings, translations of papers, speeches and press articles.

Photographs of old Lunenburg houses and barns in winter

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

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 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 tribal African jewelery

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

Soviet Union and education

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 1
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes Russian- and English-language newspaper clippings; translations of papers, speeches and press articles; a copy of Problems of Communism (May/June 1970); and two booklets about the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University. There are also materials related to children and schooling.

Soviet Union and civil defence

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 10
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article.

Soviet Union and class

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 11
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes notes, an English-language newspaper article and translations of Russian-language newspaper articles.

Soviet Union and consumers

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 12
File
1970 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes notes; translations of Russian-language newspaper articles and speeches; and an issue of Analysis of Current Development in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union and culture

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 13
File
1970 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes notes; translations of Russian-language newspaper articles.

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