Hi Mitteldorf,
Thank you for contributing to volume 069!
The author, Tolstoy, and his subject matter, Anarchism, should be of interest to many listeners.
Before I can accept your recordings, however, we need to address the question of your sources. Your reading sources need to point directly to public domain (i.e. original) sources. For your first reading, we need a original source for the essay "On Anarchy." You cite the Anarchist Library. But The Anarchist Library is not an original source. The Anarchist Library states, with regard to this essay, only that it was
"retrieved on 7 February 2011 from tolstoy and peace.wordpress.com" This website/blog has been taken down from the internet, so I cannot follow through to see where the author of this blog sourced the essay. My only clue is that the Anarchist Library cites 1900 as the published date.
There is a 1900 compilation of excerpts from Tolstoy available on google & archive.org:
Pamphlets Translated from the Russian by Leo Tolstoy
https://archive.org/details/pamphletstransl00tolsgoog/page/n10, which contains an excerpt from Tolstoy labeled "On Anarchy." This excerpt is labeled "from the Private MS. Diary". It follows the text you read, but pages 26 and 27 of the text on the web are missing so I cannot verify the totality. [Note: the missing pages are acknowledged by Wikisource also.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pamphlets_(Tolstoy)/Some_Social_Remedies/On_Anarchy]
https://archive.org/details/pamphletstransl00tolsgoog/page/n250). ]
So, as things stand now, I cannot accept your first recording until you provide a public domain source exactly matching what you have read or want to read.
You could ask the University of Michigan, which supplied the text to Google, to provide you with xerox copies of pages 26 and 27... which should do the trick!
Now, on to your second reading,
Patriotism and Government. As mentioned before, the SNF Collection is not fond of Wikisource, which sometimes provides faulty or corrupted copies of its "original documents." However, Wikisource states that its "Patriotism and Goverment" is a direct copy from the above cited
Pamphlets Translated from the Russian."
Therefore, I am asking Craig to proof your recording from the original source, https://archive.org/details/pamphletstransl00tolsgoog/page/n54, not Wikisource, and we'll hope Wikisource copied correctly. If not, Craig will point that out to you, so you can correct your recording.
If my comments sound arcane, or worse yet, picky, so be it. The SNF Collection and its book coordinator remain committed to the LibriVox standard that the books we read are clearly "from the Public Domain."
Your recordings are most welcome at the Short Nonfiction Collection, once the sources have been verified!
Regards,
