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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

Soviet Union and education

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 pollution

File contains translations of Russian-language articles and interviews, English-language news clippings and an issue of the Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union and sport

File contains translations of Russian-language articles and an English-language letter to the Toronto Telegram regarding the visit of Punch Imlach's visit to the USSR.

Into Africa : [manuscripts]

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.

Saraha : [manuscript]

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

Childhood photographs of Marq de Villiers

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."

Marq de Villiers' subject files about Soviet culture and politics

Series contains newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases, transcriptions and notes about Russia and Russian life created and collected by Marq de Villiers between 1969-1971, when he worked for the Toronto Telegram's Moscow Bureau. Many files contain issues of the Daily Review: Translations from the Soviet Press, published by Novosti Press Agency, as well as press articles translated by de Villers. Other sources include issues of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union, published by the Institute for the Study of the USSR, an international research and study centre. File-level titles were largely adopted from the donor's original filing system and some files contain a single article translation.

Soviet Union and arms

File includes clippings and translations of Russian-language newspaper articles and a 1971 issue of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union and foreign policy — USA

File contains English- and Russian-language newspaper articles; 1971 and 1972 issues of Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union; and a copy of "In Russia," by Arthur Miller, published in Harpers Magazine (September 1969).

Soviet Union and leadership

File includes a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article and an off print of "Soviet Science and Technology: Some Implications for US Policy," by Foy R. Kohler and Mose L. Harvey, published in Ex Orbis (U of Pennsylvania): Fall 1969.

Soviet Union and pedestrians

File includes translations of Russian-language newspaper articles and an English-language news release from the Hamilton Automobile Club.

Soviet Union and religion

File includes translations of Russian-language newspaper articles and a 7-page manuscript titled "slug orthodox" by Marc de Villiers.

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

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.
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