‘The list includes 232 sets of newspapers and periodicals, nine-tenths of which are absolutely complete; In addition there are nearly 300 anarchistic pamphlets and books, a collection of 270 huge sheet posters and broadsides, most of which have no duplicates; hundreds of photographs of prominent agitators of all countries; an enormous body of letters, documents, manifestoes and autograph manuscripts by most of the leading anarchists, from Bakounin [Bakunin], the Russian, down to the present time, and a vast quantity of inflammatory songs and clippings from nonanarchistic publications.
‘Access could be had to only a small part of the collection, most of it now being in the hands of the binders, but an idea of its scope, magnitude and importance can be gained from the following specimen items: A death warrant, forecasting to the inner circle the assassination of President Sadi-Carnot of France six hours before its occurrence; nine manuscript writings by the famous Louise Michel; a warrant issued from a London police court for the apprehension of a desperate foreign incendiary; the school books of Ravachol; announcements of attacks to be directed against nearly all of the crowned heads of Europe and photographs of Lucheni, who assassinated the empress of Austria. Another striking exhibit is a batch of scorched papers found on the person of a London anarchist who died while hurling a bomb into a crowded square
https://anarchistnews.org/content/finest-library-anarchy-georges-pilotelle-columbia-university-and-anarchist-print-culture
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