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[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.

[corey123]

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

[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

[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]

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:
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]

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]

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]

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.
Which years are we talking about? Are you going to look up for Israel Schwartz too in there, just in case?

[lynn cates]

years

Hello Maria. It began in mid-'86, ended early '87. Might be too early for IS.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn,
1886-1887 is too early, as I'm only checking out relevant stuff.
I'll email you 2 French spy reports, one about anarchist bombings and one with the Paris addresses of London Whitechapel anarchists.
You didn't confirm if the anarchist papers you provided in your list are available online. I bet they aren't?
And do you recognize any of the orators' names in my post #75?

[lynn cates]

orators

Hello Maria. So far as I know, all those papers are scattered about in libraries. I tried to locate Commonweal a few months back, but even that is not collected in one spot.

I know 2 of those orators--Marmol and Tscherkesov.

Thanks.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn Cates wrote:
So far as I know, all those papers are scattered about in libraries. I tried to locate Commonweal a few months back, but even that is not collected in one spot.
If that's the case, forget about me doing any other research but in the Jewish Standard (which I'm assumming is available online at www.newpaperarchive.com?). Plus we'll check out the translation of Der Arbeter Fraint by Dr. Turtletaub, when she's finally done. (In 2012?) You know what, Lynn? We should ask Dr. Turtletaub to also do Der Arbeter Fraint from January/February 1905, when this mysterious Schwartz orator turns up.

Lynn Cates wrote:
I know 2 of those orators--Marmol and Tscherkesov.
Can you say 2 words about them? And you don't know of any Schwartz in the early 1900s...? I'm gonna identify this bastard even if it's the last thing I do in my life.
P.S.: By the by, did you notice I just got promoted to inspector? Just like Abberline. ;-)

[lynn cates]

answers

Hello Maria. Tscherkesov was an old timer (ex aristocrat, I think, from Georgia) who grew old with the movement. I believe he knew Wess (I am getting this from Fishman). Marmol was some of the newer blood and was known for his oratory.

Did you come across Benjamin Feigenbaum? Philip Kranz talked him into leaving Antwerp and coming to London in 1888. He was their BIG point man.

Yes, The Jewish Standard is available in the Newspaper Archive.

Can you find an AF from 1905? Perhaps you or I could chat up some of Sam Dreen's descendants? Perhaps they have back issues?

You are promoted to what? An infector? (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC