April 11 Tuesday – At the Hotel Krantz in Vienna, Austria Sam signed a notice in German to Chatto Windus. The notice is by another hand, perhaps that of an attorney, unnamed.

I have just been informed that R. Jabobsthal, publisher and bookseller, of Berlin, has issued an unauthorised translation of the story written by me: “Tom Sawyer, Detective”. This translation is a piracy, which infringes both the Berne Convention and the American-German Literary Treaty. As the firm of Rob. Lutz of Stuttgart has acquired the rights of the sole German book-edition for the Continent from the firm of Chatto & Windus, who are alone authorised by me to grant such rights, I empower the said Stuggart firm, to enforce its rights against the said pirating firm by way of legal proceedings, in concert with my publishers in London, Chatto & Windus, and in New York, Harper Brothers, in virtue of the existing literary treaties….[MTP].