Archives Catalogue

Notebooks written during travels in Africa

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 6
File
1995 - 1998

File contains four notebooks containing handwritten entries regarding research trips made throughout Africa between 1995 and 1998.

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.

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.

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1988 - 1990

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 9
File

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Reviews for Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 6
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and readers' correspondence regarding Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 7
File
2004 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 1
File
2004 - 2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 2
File
2006 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1997 - 1998

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 7
File
2008 - 2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 6
File
1992 - 2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Publicity and reviews for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1999 - 2000

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Publicity and reviews for Our Way Out: First Principles for a Post-Apocalyptic World

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 3
File
2011

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

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 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 re. permissions for Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 15
File
2006 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Personal correspondence and greeting cards kept by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 16
File
1966 - 2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photograph of Marq de Villiers as a toddler with his oupa (grandfather), Johannes Jacobus de Villiers in Bloemfontein, South Africa

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 1
File
1943

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a small original print, a larger reproduction and a negative.

Photograph of Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle at Moscow’s Tretiakov Gallery, with Alla Gankina

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 2
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photograph of two people at restaurant table wearing Toronto Life t-shirts

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 4
File
[199-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs of Boschendal farmhouse

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 5
File
[ca. 1980s]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains photographs of the family home of the de Villiers ca. 1717-1879.

Soviet Union and air transportation

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 5
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of Russian-language articles.

Soviet Union and culture

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes notes; translations of Russian-language newspaper articles.

Soviet Union and democracy

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 15
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of Russian speeches and articles.

Soviet Union economy — budgets and plans

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 18
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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

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'."

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.

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

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

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

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1960

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

Reviews and clippings for White Tribe Dreaming

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1987 - 1988

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Publicity and reviews for Witch in the Wind

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 8
File
2006 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Down the Volga in a Time of Troubles

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 2
File
1991 - 1995

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.

Correspondence re. Exhile, an unpublished manuscript by Marq de Villier