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Just four months before an agent of Joseph Stalin's secret police shattered his skull with an alpine axe in 1940, Bolshevik Revolutionary Leader Leon Trotsky sold his confidential correspondence to Harvard for $10,000. Last week the university's Houghton Library unveiled it. Included were Trotsky's own copies of 17,500 letters written by him and to him from 1927 to 1940, and kept under wraps ever since at Trotsky's own insistence, in order to protect his correspondents from Stalin's possible retribution...
Huddled in the reading room of Houghton library, bespectacled researchers, like little boys at Christmas, gasped and grunted in surprise last week, as they read through the catalogue outlining the University's recently-released collection of the papers of Leon Trotsky...
...when Houghton finally released the collection, scholars from around the world were delighted. "There were 35 people in the reading room at 11 a.m.," manuscript curator Rodney Dennis said the day the papers came out of storage. "Thirty of them were working on Trotsky, and five on the rest of Western civilization," he added...
More than 30 experts on Leon Trotsky gathered at Houghton Library yesterday to pore over the Russian revolutionary's 17,500 letters and papers which the library released yesterday...
...experts sat, wide-eyed and reverent, in the Houghton reading room, sifting through the papers, stored for more than 40 years to protect Trotsky's friends from Stalinist reprisal...