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Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pennsylvania (1853)

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Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pennsylvania (1853), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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to sale in pamphlet form pages thirteen to one
hundred and fifty-eight and part of page one
hundred and fifty-nine of said Book
            That it is the intention and purpose of the
said F. W. Thomas shortly and from time to time at
short intervals to translate and copy into the German
language and print and publish and cause to be
translated and copied as aforesaid and printed and
published in pamphlet form the remaining part of
page one hundred and fifty-nine and the following
and successive pages of the said Book until the
whole thereof shall be fully and completely so
translated and copied as aforesaid and printed and
published and to sell and expose to sale the
same when as and after the same shall be so
translated and copied as aforesaid and printed and
published.
            That the said F. W. Thomas at the time of the
said translating and copying, printing, publishing, selling
and exposing to sale of each and every the said
pages of this Deponent's said Book as aforesaid knew
that Deponent was the Author and proprietor of said
Book and that she had the Copyright thereof as
aforesaid.
            That the said F. W. Thomas has been requested by
[on behalf of this] Deponent and by her Agents to desist from the ~
translating and copying and printing, publishing, selling
and exposing to sale and causing to be translated
and copied and printed, published, sold and exposed
to sale as aforesaid in the said Newspaper and
in the said pamphlet form this Deponent's said
Book as aforesaid and to account with Deponent
for the profits which have been received by him
from the sale thereof but he has refused and still
refuses so to do.

    

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