KROPOTKIN (Prince Peter, 1842-1921, Russian Geographer, Savant, Revolutionary & Nihilist)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney A GIMSON (1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying he was sorry that he will "not be able to lecture this winter at the Leicester Secular Society but I most probably shall arrange with the Socialists to stay at Leicester on my return from Manchester, but on a week day. It would require from me a separate journey from London and a 3 day absence from my work to come . on a Sunday and I am very busy ...", 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, Harrow on the Hill, 12th September

In 1881, shortly after the assassination of the Tsar Alexander II, the Swiss government expelled Kropotkin from Switzerland. After a short stay at Thonon (Savoy), he went to London, where he stayed nearly a year, and returned to Thonon in late 1882. Soon he was arrested by the French government, tried at Lyon, and sentenced by a police-court magistrateto five years' imprisonment, on the ground that he had belonged to the IWA (1883). But the French Chamber repeatedly agitated on his behalf, and he was released in 1886. He settled near London, living at various times in Harrow – where his daughter, Alexandra, was born – Ealing and Bromley. While living in London, he became friends with a number of prominent English-speaking socialists, including William Morris and George Bernard Shaw.

Item Date:  1889

Stock No:  39802      £250

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