Original typed manuscript entitled “The Soviet Frontier,” some pencilled manuscript corrections

New York, 1938. 19 pages. 1 vols. 4to. Sheets paperclipped together. Stain and tears from clip, some light soiling and wear, newspaper clippings browned and brittled, some with losses, but generally in good condition. 19 pages. 1 vols. 4to. Helen Calista Wilson immigrated to Russia in 1923 with an international group heading to a “Utopian industrial” colony in the Kuzbas basin coal mining district in Siberia. On its failure Wilson and a friend, Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell set off walking across Siberia to Turkestan, resulting in their book “Vagabonding at 50.” She spent 14 years in Russia, travelling and seeing the country and people, working for Intourist and teaching English until her return to Boston in 1937 when all foreigners were sent out of Russia. There is a newspaper clipping covering her return, with a postcard announcement of a lecture on “Russia Today” given on her return; a prospectus for a lecture tour in the United States in 1933; her copy of the “Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” (London, 1947); and a copy of a pamphlet of “The Leading Features of the Constitution and Structure of the Central Caucasus.” By P. P. Piatnitsky, Rostow on Don, 1928, number 30 of the “Proceedings of the North Caucasus of Research Institutes (original wrappers, some staining), some text in English.¶ With a clipped photograph and the first two newspaper accounts of Anna Louise Strong's arrest and imprisonment in Lubyanka Prison.