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President Roosevelt would like to find an appointment for Murphy who has done “very real work” for the Republican Party. Roosevelt also wants to know if it is proper to ask Joseph Hodges Choate to ensure that international copyright laws are observed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-15
Ambassador Reid sends Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt descriptions of social events and diplomatic gossip from Great Britain. In a handwritten postscript, Reid says his wife and daughter are going to see her sick father in the Adirondacks and he will be alone by the end of summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-25
A man, identified as the “Pirate Publisher,” stands at center with one foot on a large book labeled “Law.” He is wearing 17th century court dress, a large hat with four plumes labeled “American, French, German, [and] English,” and a long cape that appears to be made from the title pages of pirated works of literature; and he is carrying two moneybags. Authors from “America, Germany, France, [and] England” form a half-circle behind him, including “Mark Twain, C. D. Warner, G. W. Cable, E. C. Stedman, F. Brete Hart [i.e., Bret Harte], J. Hay, O. W. Holmes, F. R. Stockton, J. G. Whittier, T. B. Aldrich, W. D. Howells, J. R. Lowell, Heyse, Ebers, Scheffel, Zola, Sardou, A. Daudet, Jules Verne, Gilbert, Browning, Burnard, Hughes, Tennyson, [and] W. Collins.” Some hold papers labeled “James Payn, Louis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, [and] R. L. Stevenson.” They are accusing the man of illegally publishing their work without compensating them, while the man maintains that he has a legal right to publish their books. There is a jack-in-the-box labeled “The Hugh Conway Posthumous Producer.” The jack holds a knife in one hand and a gun in the other. Includes choruses “of British Authors…French Victims…German and other Sufferers, [and] Humble American Authors.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-02-24
Murphy is seeking a particular position but Secretary of State Hay does not believe it will suit Murphy or afford him subsistence. Hay is also discussing international copyright law with Ambassador Joseph H. Choate on behalf of President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-16
Frank Hall Scott of the Century Company, notifies President Roosevelt about a request from Clara Ruge to translate Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail into German for serialized publication in the German paper Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung. The Century Company has no objections if Roosevelt approves and copyright will be maintained under the Berne Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-28