Non-fiction

Clippings and copies of Marq de Villier's newspaper and magazine writing

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1966 - 1978

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.

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

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. a book proposal about five political rulers

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 10
File
1990 - 1991

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes letters to two of the proposed subjects, Willie Brandt and Julius Nyerere, as well as a brief description of the project.

Early manuscript excerpts of Sahara and Sheila Hirtle's reader's notes for Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 5
File
[2001?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Genealogical research and correspondence re. a revised version or television production of Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 2
File
2002 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains two pages of notes respectively dated 1998 and 2001.

Geneaology research for Blood Traitors: The True Saga of Families Torn Apart by the Struggle for Independence in Revolutionary North America

MS-2-825, Box 8, Folders 1-11; Box 9, Folder 1
File
1991 - 1993

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains correspondence.

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

Manuscripts excerpts, notes and and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 5
File
2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Memo from Marq de Villiers to Garth Drabinsky regarding "Ragtime: the book of the musical"

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 9
File
1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

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.

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.

Outline, manuscripts drafts and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 4
File
2005 - 2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes early manuscript drafts, outlines, research and editorial notes, production correspondence and a travel itinerary.

Part IV : the Gulf of Guinea : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 9
File
1996

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, as well as a page with some suggested cuts.

Part VI : the Maghreb and the Barbary Shore : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 8
File
[1996?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, 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.

Saraha : a natural history of the greatest desert on earth / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 3
File
December 2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains pages 1-213 of the manuscript.

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.

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.

Timbuktu : [manuscript]