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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.

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File contains an unpublished manuscript of short stories and a rejection letter from the senior editor at Bantam Books.

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File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Untitled, unpublished draft manuscript about life in Soviet Russia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

Photographs of old Lunenburg houses and barns in winter

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 3
File
[198-?]

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.

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 South Carolina taken in the course of research for Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 11
File
[199-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains photographs of lanes and pre-revolutionary Charleston architecture; the countryside near Charleston; the Town of Ninety-Six; "up country"; 69 Fox Street; St George's Church, London, UK; and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Marq de Villiers' photographic records

Series
1943 - 2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series comprises photographs created or collected by Marq de Villiers related to his research and writing, his family, and his achievements, including his honorary degree ceremony at Dalhousie University.

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."

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.

Marq de Villiers' manuscripts and publications

Series
1960 - 2014

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series contains manuscripts written by Marq de Villiers and Marq de Villiers with Sheila Hirtle, as well as copies of Marq de Villiers' magazine and newspaper articles, columns and reviews. There are also notebooks, correspondence and research notes regarding their writing projects.

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

Photograph of Marq de Villiers in a group portrait with his field hockey team at London University

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1960

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

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.

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.

Clippings and of article by Marq de Villiers published in The Toronto Telegraph

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1968 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Soviet Union and dissidents

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 17
File
1968 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes English- and Russian-language newspaper and magazine articles.

Soviet Union and education

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 1
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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 families

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 4
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes Russian-language newspaper clippings and transcriptions.

Soviet Union and the far north

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 5
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes Russian-language newspaper clippings and transcriptions.

Soviet Union and foreign policy — China

File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes Russian- and English-language newspaper clippings; transcriptions of papers, speeches and government statements.

Soviet Union and healthcare

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 7
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains transcriptions of Russian-language articles and an English-language article from Life magazine.

Soviet Union and pollution

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 22
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language articles and interviews, English-language news clippings and an issue of the Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union and sport

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 8
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language articles and an English-language letter to the Toronto Telegram regarding the visit of Punch Imlach's visit to the USSR.

Soviet Union and women

MS-2-825, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language articles and English-language clippings.

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.

Marq de Villiers' subject files about Soviet culture and politics

Series
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Series contains newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases, transcriptions and notes about Russia and Russian life created and collected by Marq de Villiers between 1969-1971, when he worked for the Toronto Telegram's Moscow Bureau. Many files contain issues of the Daily Review: Translations from the Soviet Press, published by Novosti Press Agency, as well as press articles translated by de Villers. Other sources include issues of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union, published by the Institute for the Study of the USSR, an international research and study centre. File-level titles were largely adopted from the donor's original filing system and some files contain a single article translation.

Restoration of Manas tomb

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 17
File
[ca. 1969]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article, as well as notes about monument restoration.

Soviet Union and artists/writers

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 4
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

Soviet Union economy — management

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 19
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes translations of speeches and Russian-language newspaper clippings.

Soviet Union and foreign policy — USA

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 2
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains English- and Russian-language newspaper articles; 1971 and 1972 issues of Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union; and a copy of "In Russia," by Arthur Miller, published in Harpers Magazine (September 1969).

Soviet Union and hooliganism

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 9
File
1969

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a Russian-language newspaper cutting.

Soviet Union and leadership

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a translation of a Russian-language newspaper article and an off print of "Soviet Science and Technology: Some Implications for US Policy," by Foy R. Kohler and Mose L. Harvey, published in Ex Orbis (U of Pennsylvania): Fall 1969.

Soviet Union and political cartoons

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 16
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains cartoons from Russian-language newspapers.

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

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles.

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.

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 dogma

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 14
File
1969 - 1971

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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

Soviet Union and leisure activities

MS-2-825, Box 13, Folder 20
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language articles.

Soviet Union and population

MS-2-825, Box 14, Folder 21
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains translations of Russian-language articles, English-language news clippings and an issue of Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union.

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