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[lynn cates]

Lyons

Hello Maria. Funny you should ask about the archive. I just located Lewis Lyons' paper "The Anti-Sweater" in there. I downloaded every copy. He has a black list of sweaters along with a welcome to the new paper on Berner st.

Interested?

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Hello Lynn.
I know Robert Burns. (Not too well, though.) I'm not crazy about Of mice and men, my favorite is The grapes of wrath. I was reading it a couple weeks ago at my mom's in Greece, where all my childood lit is located, and I found it as good and powerful as the last time I read it.
Do you reckon that any of these anarchist papers on your extensive list might be available online (on newspaperarchive.com)?
Lynn, probably not the best idea in the world for me to borrow your single copy of The London years right in the middle of your conducting research on sweaters and anarchist activity in Victorian London. You'll need this book and your notes on it for reference. (Were you pulling a Swanson here?) I can borrow it at a later point, or I can order a second hand copy. On the other side, if anyone could send me a xerox copy of Edoardo Zinna's seminal article on the IWEC I keep hearing about, from a Ripperologist issue on print (perhaps issue #62?), I'd be endlessly grateful.

[lynn cates]

Burns

Hello Maria. Yes, he stole . . . , excuse me, borrowed it from the poem "To a Mouse" by the Scots poet Robert Burns (Rabbie Bairns).

I'd be delighted to send along my copy of Rocker. Use it as long as you wish.

Some anarchist/socialist periodicals were:

1. Alarm
2. Anarchist
3. Black Flag
4. Freedom
5. Freiheit
6. Herald of Revolt
7. Industrial Syndicalist
8. Justice
9. Liberty
10. Solidarity
11. Spur
12. Torch
13. Voice of Labour
14. Worker's Dreadnought

These are from Quail's book and he intersperses one or two mainstream periodicals. I apologise if I have inadvertently included one.

If I get inspired, I can send others.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn Cates wrote:
Ah! But a real Scots saying is, "The best laid plans o' mice and men, gang aft agley."
Is that from where the Steinbeck novel title came from?

Lynn Cates wrote:
Email me your postal (if it is anything like a fixed address--doubtful) and I can send you my (heavily annotated) copy.
Are you really sure about this? If so, then why, thank you SO very much. (Sounding like a Southerner now.) And I have a fixed address (Berlin) for the entire winter, I'm all travelled-out.

[lynn cates]

Scots saying

Hello Maria.

"No eldest, nor youngest daughter. Not planning to start a family anytime soon."

Ah! But a real Scots saying is, "The best laid plans o' mice and men, gang aft agley."

Email me your postal (if it is anything like a fixed address--doubtful) and I can send you my (heavily annotated) copy.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn Cates wrote:
Hello Maria. Thanks and a thousand blessings on your eldest daughter for these.
Hello Lynn. Is this a Scottish saying or something? No eldest, nor youngest daughter. Not planning to start a family anytime soon.

Lynn Cates wrote:
Umm, not so erroneous. Actually, Rocker revived the AF circa 1898 becoming its editor and teaching himself Yiddish.
Ouch! Caught being a newbie in Fin de siècle socialism. I've heard of The London years, and I really wish I could really borrow it from you all the way from Austin...

[lynn cates]

thanks

Hello Maria. Thanks and a thousand blessings on your eldest daughter for these.

By the way,

"Please note the erroneous information about Rudolph Rocker as supposedly having been the “editor“ of Der Arbeter Fraint . . . "

Umm, not so erroneous. Actually, Rocker revived the AF circa 1898 becoming its editor and teaching himself Yiddish (he was a German catholic).

Permit me to loan you my copy of Rocker's "The London Years." It's a very good read and is full of behind the scenes skullduggery--including anarchists assaulting one another in back alleys.

Cheers.
LC

[corey123]

Thanks to Rob for posting these and for Maria for translating them. Well appriciated.

[mariab]

A translation of the third document posted by Rob Clack in his post #72, another report of the French secret police:

Paris, April 30, 1902 (from London).
A new locale for the Russian revolutionaries in London.

Due to the fact that Whitechapel Russian revolutionaries have been lacking space in their current settings, they just rented Liberty Hall at 9, Pelham Street, Brick Lane, E.C. for their conferences.
Gatherings will be taking place regularly on Fridays and Sundays in order to increase membership and to gather funding from English sympathizers to the agenda of the Russian refugees.

[mariab]

A translation of the second document posted by Rob Clack in his post #72. This is another report of the French secret police, mentioning someone named Schwartz as an orator. I've also located another French spy report, calling Schwartz a skilled anarchist orator in Yiddish, Polish, and Ungarian, but I won't have access to a copy of this spy report before March 2011. Here goes:

Paris, February 7, 1905 (from London).
A gathering of revolutionary Russians in London.

A little flyer profusely circulating in the London workers' milieu proclaims the following:
“To the London workers.
Comrades! Those who govern us are murderers. They take advantage of the people. They have appointed Trepoff as a dictator, abandonning Witte.
Come hear the truth at the grand meeting which will take place at the Vonderland in Whitechapel.“ etc. etc..
“The Russian revolutionary committee.“

This gathering took place in the evening before yesterday on February 5 at the Vonderland Hall, under the presidency of Tchaikowsky. The room, fitting 2.000-3000 attendees, was filled to its full capacity, so that many attendees were unable to enter. The usual orators Tarrida del Marmo, Turner, Burk, Wilkin, Schwartz, Morleit, Tcherkesow pronounced particularly violent speeches in four or five different languages.
The particular interest of this gathering lied within the rumour that father Gapone, arriving to London via Switzerland, was supposed to give a talk. We waited until the end of the gathering without a sighting of father Gapone.

[mariab]

Hi all,
a thousand apologies for the delay.
I'm posting a translation for the first document posted by Rob Clack in his post #72. The document is a report from the French secret police about Whitechapel socialist/anarchist activity. Please note the erroneous information about Rudolph Rocker as supposedly having been the “editor“ of Der Arbeter Fraint, which is also erroneously characterized as a "Russian revolutionary journal“. Here goes:

Paris, April 18, 1905 (from London)
The Jewish anarchist federation in London.

A gathering organized by the London Jewish anarchist federation took place last Sunday at the Trade Union Hall, Old Montague Street, East London. Anarchist Rudolph Rocker, director of the Russian revolutionry journal “The Worker's friend“, talked about “Maxim Gorki and his works“. The gathering was arranged as a contribution to Russian revolutionary propaganda. The donations value (all expenses included) is estimated to a hundred francs maximum.

[mariab]

Hi all,
I'll try to post an English translation of the original French spy reports, I'll try for tonight, but I can't promise, as I urgently need to finish up a French proposal on deadline. The second report mentions a Schwartz as an orator. (These spy reports hardly EVER give first names. The only person I encountered for whom a first name was mentioned was Rudolph Rocker.)

[Rob Clack]

I'm posting these for Maria, who will explain there significance at some point soon.








Rob

[mariab]

Lynn,
thank you so much for the scans. I had a very quick look at them, but I'm not in a position to think very clearly right now. I'm going to bed, even the godamn sh*tty proposal will have to wait. Goodnight...

[mariab]

Thank you so much, Lynn. Does the Jules Hansen book interest you? I don't know when I'll be able to look at your scans, as my first priority right now is this stupid proposal. Actually I'm not particularly interested in working in their team of Fellows, which are completely disparate (Kierkegaard, South American lit, East Asian art, Nigerian music – hello?), but the money is SOOO good (over $5000/month), and between us, that's the sole reason I might go for it.
Thank you so much for willing to scan me some details.