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Letter from Donaldson to Peters, New York (1828)

Source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Robert Donaldson to Richard Peters, Jr., September 25, 1828.

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Letter from Donaldson to Peters, New York (1828), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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            Copy of R. Donaldson's Letter
to R. Peters -

                  R. Peters Esq.
                                    Sir:
                                          In a letter just received from a
Bookseller in Boston I have had the following query put
to me. Please inform us if the edition proposed by
Mr Peters of Philadelphia [???] to be published by subscription
viz, the Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the
United States from its organization to the close of January
term 1827 and to know if it is to be published with my
consent and when it is to be out - You will oblige me
by answering me the former and latter part of this query,
as I would not wish in my answer to said Book House
to give other than the facts. For myself I readily
anticipate your answer - that you will not issue such
a work, the effect of which would be to me literally ruinous
on a large amount of property I have vested in the
work, which I have been endeavoring to accumulate
from my labours and care of 12 years. Likewise the injury
that would be done to my absent friend Henry Wheaton Esq.
by such a publication and the result of which would
be to deprive him and his family of the pecuniary
reward due to his professional labours of 12 years. However,
should you see fit to bring out such a work we must
under such circumstances look to the Laws of our
country for redress of so great an injury as would thereby
be done to us. But ere you receive this, I have little doubt

    

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