Sept. 14, 1901 – William McKinley died from his Sept. 6 gunshot wound. In Buffalo, N.Y. Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the new President

September 14 Saturday – In Saranac Lake, N.Y. Sam answered two questions sent by Augustus T. Gurlitz, who was handling Rudyard Kipling’s lawsuit against Putnam. Sam felt the elephant-head logo used by Kipling on his “Outward Bound Edition” should not be appropriated by Putnam in the “Brushwood Edition,” as it would “necessarily injure” Kipling by causing “confusion in the market.” As for the second question, Clemens answered:

“According to my observation, an author is injured by the publication of any unauthorized edition of his works; & in the case where an author is himself publishing an edition of his works, & another person without his authority also publishes…the injury is of course likely to be much greater….” [MTP: Sotheby’s].