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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

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

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.

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 Einfrank, is being withdrawn after being 'formally reprimanded and accused of damaging Soviet-Canadian relations'."

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.

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.

Slug dead : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 6
File
[ca. 1970]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains a Los Angeles Times clipping of the story "Russian Writer Hits Soviet Way of Death," dated 26 March 1970.

Soviet Union and religion

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

Soviet Union and tourism

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 16
File
1967 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles and an English-language manuscript copy of a Moscow travel article.

Slug deaf and Katey : [manuscripts]

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 22
File
[ca. 1970]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains two short manuscripts: copy for an article about theatre for the deaf and a manuscript about Catherine the Great.

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Water : back to the well : [manuscript]

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

Manuscripts excerpts, notes and and correspondence re. Timbuktu

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Timbuktu : [manuscript]

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

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.

Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

File
1970 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language article, an issue of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union, and partial manuscript copy for Reuters London.