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Marq de Villiers fonds File
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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.

Sobuke letters : [manuscript]

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 Einfrank, is being withdrawn after being 'formally reprimanded and accused of damaging Soviet-Canadian relations'."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

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."

Publishing agreements

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.

Soviet Union economy — budgets and plans

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 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 class

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

Soviet Union and consumers

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 dogma

File includes translations of Russian newspaper articles and three issues of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union.
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