Vullliamy Hynes (1 results)
Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1929
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. 320 pages. Includes: illustrations, index. Name of previous owner present. Cover has moisture damage but all pages are separate. Inside cover and fep has some wrinkling. Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (1886-1971) was a Welsh biographer and historian. He was educated privately and studied art u…nder Stanhope Forbes. He entered the Army in WW1 and served in France, Macedonia and Turkey. After the war he wrote mainly biographies and humour, but also produced several inverted mystery novels. He married Eileen Hynes in 1916 and had two children. She died in 1943. His best-known book is The Vicar's Experiments (1932), written under the pseudonym Anthony Rolls. The documents which are presented here for the first time in English were selected from a periodical publication issued by the State Printing Department of the Soviet Government. Introduction by C.T. Hagberg Wright. From Wikipedia: "Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, LL.D. (November 17, 1862, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire March 7, 1940 in London) was the Secretary and Librarian of the London Library from 1893 until his death. He managed expansion of the library and compiled a comprehensive catalogue of its collection. The Times called him "the guiding genius" of the library, the driving force behind the four decades of its growth. The Library itself hails Wright as "the real architect of the London Library as it is today". Wright was a highly public person and frequently engaged in political debates. His scholarly interests ranged from the history of the colonization of Africa to translation of Leo Tolstoy. He had a reputation of a liberal russophile and was involved in Russian radical politics and wartime humanitarian aid to Russian soldiers and academics.Wright had a reputation of a liberal russophile. He translated works by Leo Tolstoy, and wrote that Tolstoy's greatness "has been obscured from us rather than enhanced by his duality: a realist who strove to demolish the mysticism of Christianity and became himself a mystic in the contemplation of Nature." In 1908 Wright personally presented Tolstoy a letter signed by more than 700 English admirers. Wright noted Tolstoy's "apparent serenity" but did not mention his aversion to public events. Tolstoy lamented in his diary: "At this advanced age, when there is nothing left to think about but death, they want to bother me with that! ". Later, Wright provided legal support to Tolstoy's secretary Vladimir Chertkov and his family after their emigration to England. Wright welcomed Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexey Tolstoy to London and introduced them to English writers and publishers of his circle. He was an important figure of the Anglo-Russian Committee, an organization that regularly exposed Russian political troubles to the British public. Before World War I he actively engaged in radical Russian politics. In 1908 Wright, Henry Nevinson, and Peter Kropotkin campaigned to raise money for the escape of Russian revolutionary Maria Spiridonova, who was serving life sentence for a murder. Spiridonova declined the offer and stayed in Siberia. During the Russian Civil War Wright joined the British Committee for Aiding Men of Letters and Science in Russia. He contributed to the publications of primary documents related to the final years of the House of Romanov and the revolutions of 1917. First Published.1929, presumed first printing.