Archives Catalogue

Notes, correspondence and manuscript drafts for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1985 - 1987

Correspondence from readers regarding White Tribe Dreaming

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

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.

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia

MS-2-825, Box 3, Folders 1 and 2
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Windswept : a documentary / Marq de Villiers : [television scripts]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 10
File
[2004?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains three script treatments, including visuals and narration.

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.

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File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

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File contains an unpublished manuscript of short stories and a rejection letter from the senior editor at Bantam Books.

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File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

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.

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.

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'."

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.

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

Condensed research notes for Into Africa

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

Water : solutions and manifestos : adapted from the book Water by Marq de Villiers / Larry J. Bauman : [script]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 13
File
2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a treatment for episode 3 of 3.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Water : back to the well : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folders 6 and 7
File
[2014?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Timbuktu : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 3
File
[2005?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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