Archives Catalogue

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

Correspondence from readers regarding White Tribe Dreaming

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes correspondence from the University Of Cape Town Libraries regarding the publication embargo on letters written by Robert Sobukwe to Nell Marquand.

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.

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

Childhood photographs of Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 10
File
1944

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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."

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.

Correspondence and itineraries for White Tribe Dreaming launch