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Archive upgrades, IV
The week was full of the right kinds of interruptions: A couple of research requests I had out bore fruit, and gave me plenty of productive distractions from the ongoing archive clean-up. Barry Pateman, of […]
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Benjamin R. Tucker in Printers’ Ink, 1892
Here’s another letter from Benjamin R. Tucker relating to the publishing trade, which refers to his experiences publishing the Weekly Bulletin of Newspaper and Periodical Literature, one of three non-political papers he published—the others were […]
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E. Armand, “Little Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” (1911)
[ezcol_2third] My translation of E. Armand’s “Mini-Manual” was a fairly early effort, and I’ve been meaning to get a revised translation posted for some time now. I originally tackled the sections that had not been […]
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The Gilded Edge of Hell – a tale by Voltairine de Cleyre
THE GILDED EDGE OF HELL Mr. Editor:–The broad roll of the Delaware flashed back a white water-glisten at the full moon. Fifteen or twenty vessels spread their white wings to the slow breeze, or sent […]
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Archive upgrades, III
The Libertarian Labyrinth clean-up advances, step by step: I’ve made it through the “A”s in a roughly linear fashion—with lots of side trips to deal with all the old problems, new listings and such that […]
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Two new publications of interest
At long last, Crispin Sartwell’s Josiah Warren anthology, “The Practical Anarchist,” has been published by Fordham University Press. It’s a very nice collection, the sort of thing that will give readers insight into both Warren’s […]
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Archive upgrades, II
A thousand is a lot, when it is a thousand articles that have to be checked for complete citations, typos, and formatting, and assigned to enough categories and index pages to be findable. The work […]
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Tucker on “fake” translations
Here’s a bit of fun from the 1891 volume of The Bookseller and Newsman, where Benjamin R. Tucker got very actively involved in the debate about translations of Emile Zola’s “Money.” It’s classic Tucker. The […]
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Josiah Warren’s Last Letter (from The Index)
JOSIAH WARREN’S LAST LETTER [As our readers have been already informed, Mr. Josiah Warren, the author of True Civilization and other unpretentious little works on social reform, died In Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the fourteenth of […]
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Lysander Spooner in “Liberty”
I’ve added a number of Lysander Spooner’s anonymous or pseudonymous contributions (as “O”) to Liberty to the Libertarian Labyrinth archive. Unsigned articles Lysander Spooner, “Distressing Problems,” Liberty 1, no. 7 (October 29, 1881): 3. Lysander […]