Cassius Cook V., 1879-1950

Anarchist, writer, publisher, & businessman.


Cook's papers reside at the Manuscripts in the Labadie Collection.

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Papers, 1908-1950. 228 items. List of correspondents available.



The collection includes an autobiographical essay, correspondence, essays, articles, clippings, and ephemeral literature relating to Cook's involvement in libertarian, rationalist, labor, and cooperative organizations; his businessdealings; his work as publicist for Tom Mooney and the Industrial Workers Defense League; a Canadian miners' strike; unorthodox medical treatments; and unsuccessful attempts by the [Rudolf] Rocker Publications Committee to publish Thomas Bell's book Oscar Wilde withoutWhitewash. Also included is a lengthy, handwritten "Notice to the Wage Workers of Canada" byRobert Gosden announcing the dissolution of the Miners' Liberation League in 1914.Correspondence to Cook and to his wife, Sadie, is from Margaret C. Anderson, Theodore Debs,Henry Olerich, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman, Milly and Rudolf Rocker, Parker Sercombe, andothers, including Clyde Cook while living in St. Petersburg, Russia, from May 1914 toSeptember 1915.

http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/labadie/labadiemanuscripts.html


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Cook is also cited in the "Government Documents Series: Index by Name", at the Emma Goldman Papers Project:

*1917 June 25 Reel 57 *1918 Feb. 61 *1918 Feb. 20 61 *1918 March 15 61 *1919 Nov. 21 64

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/nameindexcg.html


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