KROPOTKIN PETER: (1842-1921) Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian & philosopher. T.L.S., P. Kropotkin, one page, 4to, Chesham Street, Brighton, 2nd November 1912, to Mr. Cazenove. Kropotkin writes concerning his autobiography and most famous work, Memoirs of a Revolutionist, which had first been published in 1899, in part, ´Memoirs:......It is quite true that it is rather too big. But it would be impossible to take out so much as one third of it......I am afraid it would be difficult to take out more than fifty pages without destroying the general character of the book. I am just looking over the American edition.....and see that it has, all taken, with index, 520 pages, which may be reduced to, say, 480 pages of 350 words each. Of course, for a copyright book it may be too much; but otherwise the Everyman Series contains books from 350 to 500 pages - - not to speak of the classics. As to give to Dent the plates, or moulds, we have none.....I do not believe that the Aberdeen press who have printed for us our last edition should have moulds of it; and unless we buy the moulds from the American publisher I do not see our way to supplying them. I am sending you the American edition that you might see how it looks. Only kindly return me this copy, because it is the only one of this edition which I possess. I am also sending you the dummy of a half-crown edition which the Aberdeen press had made for us.....The dunny does not look too bulky´. In a holograph postscript Kropotkin remarks that he has sent Cazenove´s letter to his daughter, Alexandra Kropotkin-Lebedev, whose address at Ladbroke Grove, London, he supplies. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG