17? April 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CtY-BR, UCCL 01322)
librarian of congress.
copyright office united states of americalibrary of congress,
permit me to remind you that, under the copyright law, two copies of each publication entered are required to be sent to this office within ten days after publication, to perfect the copyright. one of these copies is in lieu of the one formerly required to be deposited with the copyright records in the office of the district court of the united states; the other is for this library.
the record of copyright of the publication named herein stands incomplete, not showing the deposit of two copies as required by law.
please forward the same, prepaid, in accordance with the statute of copyright.
very respectfully,
to
Samuel L. Clemens
Hartford, Conn
Mark Twain’s Sketches
(New & Old)
Entd July 21. 1875
Please send these 2 copies at once, Bliss.1explanatory note
letter docketed: CopⒶemendation
The overdue copies were received in Spofford’s office on 20 April 1876 (Lehr 1982, 9).
MS, in pencil, CtY-BR.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.