Archives Catalogue

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 8
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of Russian articles and English newspaper clippings.

And he begat / Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 3, Folder 4
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

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.

Blood memories : the fealty of traitors : a story of families sundered and broken in the American revolutionary south / Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villers : [manuscript outline]

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 10
File
[199-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a list of possible titles for the book, which was proposed as a later version of Blood Traitors.

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."

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.

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

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1970 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of Russian newspaper articles and three issues of The Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Development on the Soviet Union.

Condensed research notes for Into Africa

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 3
File
1994

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence and itineraries for White Tribe Dreaming launch

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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 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.

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. maps and illustrations for Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 6
File
1990 - 1991

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

Correspondence regarding a research trip to Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 9
File
2002

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1992-1998, 2007-2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding "Into Africa" by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 1
File
1994 - 1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 13
File
1991

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a copy of de Villiers' speaking notes, which include direct excerpts from his book Down the Volga.

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 rights for Heartbreak Grape and Blood Traitors

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

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 Timbuktu

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 : [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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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

Manuscripts excerpts, notes and and correspondence re. Timbuktu

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

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

Marq de Villiers' correspondence

Series
1947 - 2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series comprises correspondence created or collected by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, primarily related to their research and writing. Correspondence is also interfiled with records in both the manuscript and publicity series. There is one file containing publishing agreements.

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

Marq de Villiers' manuscripts and publications

Series
1960 - 2014

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series contains manuscripts written by Marq de Villiers and Marq de Villiers with Sheila Hirtle, as well as copies of Marq de Villiers' magazine and newspaper articles, columns and reviews. There are also notebooks, correspondence and research notes regarding their writing projects.

Marq de Villiers' photographic records

Series
1943 - 2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series comprises photographs created or collected by Marq de Villiers related to his research and writing, his family, and his achievements, including his honorary degree ceremony at Dalhousie University.

Marq de Villiers' publicity and review records

Series
1984 - 2014

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series contains publicity materials and media reviews of Marq de Villiers' published books, as well as newspaper and magazine clippings featuring his work as a writer and editor.

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