Archives Catalogue

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.

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.

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.

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File contains an unpublished manuscript of short stories and a rejection letter from the senior editor at Bantam Books.

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.

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia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

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File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia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, Folder 3
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Press releases and newspaper clippings regarding Marq de Villers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1984 - 2012

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains program notes and related correspondence for speaking engagements and lectures.

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

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

Reviews for Sahara: A Natural History

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

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 Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 4
File
1999 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Blood Traitors: The True Saga of Families Torn Apart by the Struggle for Independence in Revolutionary North America

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1996 - 1997

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

Newspaper obituaries for Rene Marquand de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1992

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 Blood Traitors

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

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.

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

The writer in the modern world / Alexander Chakovsky

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 9
File
1969

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a translation of a Russian-language article published in Pravda on 18 December 1969.

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.

Soviet Union and space program

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 7
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of Russian-language newspaper and magazine articles and English-language clippings.

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.

Soviet Union and subversion and espionage

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 5
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles.

Soviet Union and fashion

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 4
File
1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and transcriptions of Russian-language articles.

Vladimir Lenin

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 3
File
1969

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles.

Photographs taken by Marq de Villiers and/or Sheila Hirtle during the course of researching Down the Volga

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1990]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains largely unidentified colour prints of buildings, landscapes and sometimes people in Russia taken on a trip by Marq de Villier and Sheila Hirtle.

Slug deaf and Katey : [manuscripts]