1898
Publisher: Clarence Lee Swartz
Editor(s): Clarence Lee Swartz
City: Wellesley, United States
Language: English
Frequency: monthly
TitleID: IXXXXXXX-1898
In the opening issue, Swartz states that the periodical exists because he desires to publish it. He intends to print only matter that assists his chosen work or gives him pleasure; material outside those purposes may be printed when the contributor pays the exact cost of the space.
A monthly individualist-anarchist periodical begun at Wellesley, Massachusetts, with Number One (July 1898). A scholarly source describes I as edited by Clarence Lee Swartz from 1898 to 1900. Number Two states that I was sent to subscribers whose subscriptions to Swartz’s earlier periodical The Independent remained unexpired. The Free Comrade later began as a subsection in I.
Primary source: I, Number One (July 1898), supplied scan; Harvard HOLLIS ID 007088841 and barcode 3622510 are visible on the library target. Supporting sources: Fair Use Repository, “I, Number Two (August, 1898),” https://fair-use.org/i/1898/08/; Laura Greenwood, The Anarchist Periodical Press in the United States: An Intertextual Study of Prison Blossoms, Free Society, and The Demonstrator, p. 110 n. 451, https://batadora.trentu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/2022-04/The_Anarchist_Periodical_Press_in_the_United_States_An_Intertextual_Study_of_Prison_Blossoms_Free_Society_and_The_Demonstrator.pdf
I No. 1
No. 1 — July, 1898.
8 pp. · Five Cents a Copy.
The journal prints “Number One” but no volume designation. The repository target attached to the scan labels the item “v.1, no.1”; this record treats the printed Number One as the issue number and leaves Volume N/A. The scan presents numbered pages 1–8 in order and appears complete. No separate cover or wrapper is present. Page 1 includes a library target outside the periodical page. The issue explains and uses alternating end-of-line justification, with the justified edge changing on alternate pages. Annual subscription rates are also printed for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and Ireland, France, and Germany.
| Pg. | Item | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | It is “I,” be not afraid! — editorial | |
| 2 | [Proudhon, Zola, and Paris] — satire | |
| 2 | [The Eagle and the Serpent] — review | |
| 2–3 | [The prosecution of George Bedborough] — notice | |
| 3 | [The Ballad of Reading Gaol] — review | |
| 3 | [Proposed English translations of Stirner and Mackay] — notice | |
| 3 | [Delay in the publication of Liberty] — notice | |
| 3 | [Liberation of Abner J. Pope] — notice | |
| 3 | [Emerson on sacrifice and Egoism] — editorial | |
| 3–4 | [Thoreau on experiment] — editorial | |
| 4 | [Berta C. E. Buss’s “Heloise”] — review | |
| 4 | [Annexation and the Spanish-American War] — editorial | |
| 4–5 | [“Studied carelessness”] — editorial | |
| 5 | [Alumni government] — editorial | |
| 5 | [Immigration and compulsory marriage] — editorial | |
| 5 | [The posture of bicycle riders] — editorial | |
| 5 | [Rational self-esteem] — editorial | |
| 5 | [Knowledge and conceitedness] — editorial | |
| 5 | [Ignorance and wisdom] — editorial | |
| 5–6 | [Equal liberty: Proudhon and Kropotkin] — essay | |
| 6 | [Altruism and Egoism] — essay | |
| 6 | [The philosophy of forgetfulness] — essay | |
| 6–7 | [The presumption of innocence] — essay | |
| 7 | [Idealism and Realism] — essay | |
| 7–8 | [Schopenhauer on laughter when alone] — essay | |
| 8 | [Notice to non-subscribers] — notice | |
| 8 | [“Do good for your own sake”] — editorial | |
| 8 | [E. Percy Pool’s The Psychology of Metaphysics] — review | |
| 8 | [Lucifer no. 718 and the Bedborough prosecution] — notice |
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