6 August 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: Sotheby’s,
New York, October 1993, UCCL 01465)
(SUPERSEDED)
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.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
This letter from the Daley collection was offered for sale in the Sotheby’s catalog, 10–11 December 1993, no. 6515, lot 210.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.