What does the “Orthographische Konferenz von 1901” have to do with Egoism? First, let wikipedia tell you what it was: At the Orthographic Conference of 1901 in Berlin (also known as the Second Orthographic Conference ), a common German orthography of all the German – speaking countries was established, which was largely based on Prussian orthography, […]
The Fra was a magazine edited by Elbert Hubbard and published by the Roycrofters fine press. From Volume 6 Number 4, January 1911 (pages 103 – 106) comes a bombastic toast to Max Stirner by an unaccredited but unmistakable Benjamin DeCasseres. Ben later collected this piece, along with other biographical sketches, to comprise the book […]
Sirfessor Malfew Seklew was a man of many names. One of them, a name perhaps in proximity to the one he was assigned at birth, was F. W. Wilkes. Seen here is an advertisement for the good Sirfessor’s services as a stevedore. This advertisement appears in the 7 November 1904 program guide for the Prince […]
The second decade of the 2000s marks a near century of near-universal woman suffrage. But there was a time when woman suffrage was not universal, or universally desired. Some opposed woman suffrage because it went too far, others because it didn’t go far enough. Ellen Key and A. J. George were among the former, Dora […]
An astounding article on Sirfessor Malfew Seklew from the Chicago Daily Tribune of February 28 1916. The man identified here as Doc Rawleigh of the Toltec tribe may be Redwood Bailey, Cherokee. Bailey wrote about the Sirfessor in The Day Book for February 5 1916, and the Sirfessor replied in the same periodical five days […]
Excerpt from a letter circa July 1932, from Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh (New York) to Emma Goldman (St. Tropez). I am enclosing the first issue of a boot-leg publication called the Clarion. L. J. Shapiro is a contractor, sympathizer but not an anarchist. He made available sufficient funds for the first three issues. Archie Turner […]
Hayter I first heard of Vanoc II from a newspaper clipping laid into a second-hand copy of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (New York: Modern Library 1919). To read that newspaper clipping, click here. In tracking down the source of that newspaper clipping I learned about an interesting character who spent a […]
I first heard of Vanoc II from a newspaper clipping laid into a second-hand copy of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (New York: Modern Library 1919). Vanoc II’s view is based on the irrefutable argument that if we all got along, we’d all get along. In researching Vanoc II I found no […]
In The Eagle & The Serpent for June 1900 (Volume 1, Number 10) we read that the “American address” for purchasing egoist materials was “V. F. Gordon, 525, West Capitol Ave., Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.” And just who might V. F. Gordon be? She might be the author of the song My Golden Star… … as […]
The egoist journal The Eagle and The Serpent replied to a letter from one M. Wilkebarre in their Volume 1 Number 9 (October 15th, 1899)… M. WILKESBARRE. – The hymn you justly admire was obviously written in a very cheap lodging house or a steerage-steamer. I, too, have known that bed whereon the martyr, in […]
