To
Elisha Bliss, Jr.
6 August 1877 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, in pencil: Sotheby’s,
New York, October 1993, UCCL 01465)
(SUPERSEDED)
Elmira, Monday.
Friend Bliss:
I guess you can’t fix them at Toronto. As I understand it, the English copyright would have been good in Canada if Conway had registered it there 60 days before publication—which he didn’t do.
Mr. ‸Andrew‸ Chatto of Chatto & Windus, the present owner of the English copyright was in New York last week; has gone to Canada & will presently visit Toronto. If you telegraph Stephen Fiske, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, I guess he can tell you where to communicate with Chatto, & I guess Chatto can tell you all about that law.
Entry at Stationer’s Hall & “simultaneous” publication makes a copyright which will not be meddled with in England—no matter about being on the soil at the time.
S L C
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