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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I could hardly express now the immensity of relief I then felt at being enabled to resume writing.”

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I could hardly express now the immensity of relief I then felt at being enabled to resume writing.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin expresses the profound relief he felt upon being allowed to write again after a period of confinement.

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