From: "John Zube" To: "Mike Aldana" Subject: 030604 Mike Aldana Re: Riegel corespondents Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2003 7:25 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Aldana" To: "thomas greco" Cc: "John Zube" Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:25 AM Subject: Riegel corespondents > Thomas > > Thanks again for all and the food. > > I trust you are at Todd Boyles place in Seattle. > > I found a letter between Henry Meulen and Riegel. It is dated May 12, 1947 > and June 3, 1947 discussing credit policy. Apparently Lawrence Labadie got > them together and EC signed up to get the Personal Rights Assn newsletter > from the London. > > Mike > > Dear Mike, I presume that you will include this letter or these 2 letters in your new Riegel website. If not, I would appreciate a copy, either a photocopy or a scan in an e-mail. Lawrence Labadie himself wrote much that is worthwhile on monetary freedom and I got many of his essays but not all, but only permission to microfiche them from his niece, copyrights holder. I have scanned or keyboarded many of them and others of interest to anarchists and to fans of L.L. but am far of having done the lot. Perhaps permission to publish them online or on CD-ROM can be obtained from her. But she and her husband were journalists and are almost fanatic about "copyrights". She wrote an interesting book about Joe Labadie, of which I repeatedly microfiched a flyer. The Meulen/Riegel letter or letters should be published with an appeal to bring forth many more such letters, if they still exist in somebody's papers. Currently, interrupted by a thunderstorm, I am compiling a contents list to the Meulen - Beckerath letters. Butterbach ran into difficulties with his html programs and the various languages he used. So he could not produce a website for this correspondence instantly. I e-mailed the availability of this correspondence to about 5 dozen addresses and wait now whether I will get some positive responses. Maybe I will have the patience and e-mail addresses for another 60. Otherwise I will just await someone putting this onto a website or on a CD-ROM. I am just re-reading Greene's Fragments ... They would also be worth scanning, since they contain some correspondence that he had on mutualism and mutual banks. The same applies to the full text of his Mutual Banking. I have only seen & possess the shortened version that came out after WW II in India. I had sent a copy to Thomas Greco in exchange for one of his books. He will probably scan this short one. Butterbach's idea of offering only half the text free and asking for a donation for the second part is not bad. But on the other hand, not everything that is a good idea works in practice - expecially among people expecting only handouts of info from the Internet. But it is worth a try. Better still will be CD-ROM compilations and sales. But they would return little per individual text, because zipped ca. 2000 books could be offered on such a medium, even more on the 700 and 800 Mbs ones. Trying to make engagements in social reform efforts pay was so far more often merely an aspiration than a successful business, but one should keep trying - if that does not cost extra money and efforts. Most social reformers had to maintain themselves by their own efforts in money-making jobs, whether they liked them or not. Even Tucker had to maintain himself as a journalist to enable him to put out his LIBERTY. I wonder whether anybody has ever systematically gone through his professional journalistic output in search of diamonds there. Meulen's remaining books are jealously guarded at the Goldsmith Library in London, against copying, especially by those who might dare to publish such copies without being able to prove to the Librarian that the copyrights had expired. PIOT, John