Letters from Russian Prisons: Consisting of Reprints of Documents by Political Prisoners in Soviet Prisons, Prison Camps and Exile, and Reprints of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution in Soviet Russia, Official Statements by Soviet Authorities, Excerpts from Soviet Laws Pertaining to Civil Liberties, and Other Documents is a 1925 book by The International Committee for Political Prisoners. It was published in London by the C. W. Daniel Company and in New York by Albert and Charles Boni. Contents Introduction The book opens with an introduction written by Roger N. Baldwin on behalf of The International Committee for Political Prisoners. In it, he writes "This book attempts to tell the story of these revolutionary political prisoners, chiefly in their own words.... So far as we can get the facts, the prisoners with whom this book deals are intellectuals and working-class revolutionists imprisoned for the expression of their views and for their political activities in holding meetings, speaking, printing, selling their party literature and communicating with their party members and sympathizers abroad." Baldwin added that "This committee as such approaches the issue of Russian political prisoners without partisan interest, in the belief that the holding of political prisoners by any government blocks progress by stifling ideas and forces necessary for growth." The International Committee for Political Prisoners reportedly included: Roger N. Baldwin, Chairman Jane Addams Henry G. Alsberg Carleton Beals Louis B. Boudin Max Danish Clarence Darrow Anna N. Davis Eugene V. Debs W. E. B. Du Bois John Lovejoy Elliott Nathalie B. Ells Charles W. Ervin Elizabeth Gurley Flynn John G. Forbath Felix Frankfurter Lewis Gannett Elizabeth Gilman Arthur Garfield Hays Norman Hapgood John Haynes Holmes Paul Jones David Starr Jordan Paul U. Kellogg Harry Kelly Emil Lengyel Robert Morss Lovett Julian W. Mack James H. Maurer David Mitrany S. E. Morison Fremont Older John A. Ryan Nevin Sayre Alexander S. Tardos Graham R. Taylor Norman Thomas Girolamo Valenti Ernesto Valentini Oswald Garrison Villard B, Charney Vladeck Letters from Celebrated Intellectuals The introduction is followed by a series of letters from "celebrated intellectuals". The content of these varied from Brandes', "Not a day passes that I do not receive fifty letters insisting on answers. Try to understand. My day is filled with necessary work. Sixty or seventy are asking all day long by letter or in personally an hour of my time. It is enough to drive me mad" to Einstein's "All