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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S L Clemens") to his publisher Frank Bliss, London, 21 October 1896. One page, 8vo, on black-bordered mourning stationery (his daughter Susy had died in August), with integral blank leaf (traces of mounting on verso).
RENEWING THE COPYRIGHT ON "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD"
"As I understand the idiotic law, the renewal of a copyright is not possible until the original one lacks 6 months of running out. Isn't it nearly time to renew the Innocents? [first published 1869] Please examine & see. If you copyrighted it originally please attend to the renewal. If I copyrighted it, please tell me how to proceed, what to do, & when to begin. Am writing the new book [Following the Equator]."
Provenance: "Property of a California Collector" (sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1993, lot 238).
RENEWING THE COPYRIGHT ON "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD"
"As I understand the idiotic law, the renewal of a copyright is not possible until the original one lacks 6 months of running out. Isn't it nearly time to renew the Innocents? [first published 1869] Please examine & see. If you copyrighted it originally please attend to the renewal. If I copyrighted it, please tell me how to proceed, what to do, & when to begin. Am writing the new book [Following the Equator]."
Provenance: "Property of a California Collector" (sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 December 1993, lot 238).