"My dear
Miss Dickinson" A letter from Annie Fellows Johnston to a Miss
Dickinson, sent from Boerne Texas, January 11, 1910 along with a copy of
"The Jester's Sword". This letter discusses translations of
works into Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Braille, and points up some of the
dissatisfaction Mrs. Johnston was known to have had with her publishers.
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Boerne, Kendall Co. Texas
January 11, 1910
My dear Miss Dickinson.
I wish it were possible for me to express to you my gratitude for your
lovely letter of the 12th. ult. which came a few moments ago. It
gave me untold pleasure, and I thank you most heartily for all the kind
things you say in it.
Nothing would give me more genuine satisfaction and delight --- nothing in
regard to my stories --- than to know one of them had found a way to the
Japanese public through your magazine. |
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Unfortunately
I have no voice in the matter, as I simply furnish my publishers the
manuscripts on the royalty plan, and they copyright them. We have
had several requests from expert translators of French, German, Spanish
and Italian to be allowed to translate them into those tongues. The
publishers have always answered that if the translator knew any good
publishing house in his country, willing to publish the books there, they
would take up the matter with them.
They of course reserve a certain
royalty for themselves in such cases.
So far, little has been done, as the publishers seem to care for only the
monetary return, and place no value on the fact that it would be |
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a good
advertisement for their books, or that they might do some good.
I have been
told that the copyright does not include the Latin countries and some
others, and I hope that Japan is also exempt. I know that when I was
in Rome some years ago I discovered that my "Joel - A boy of Galillee"
had been translated into Italian and was running serially in one of the
Methodist Mission papers.
And lately I was told that The
Desert of Waiting had been translated into Spanish
for use in a Presbyterian Mission School in Mexico.
I shall
make inquiries at once about the Japanese copyright, as I should be only
too happy to have you free to use anything you wanted of mine. In
case the publishers here have any Japanese rights |
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they might
be willing to make an exception to their usual rule.
I shall say nothing about it to
them in this instance, as what is done is done now, and cannot be changed.
By
this mail I am sending you another one of my little books, called "The
Jester's Sword": My friends like it better than any of
the others, and if you think it might hold any little grain of comfort for
your friend, if you will send me her address I shall gladly mail her a
copy. I am so glad that she found the desert story worth copying in
Braille. It will be a novelty to see anything of mine in Japanese
print, so I am looking forward eagerly tot he arrival of the magazine.
With many,
many thanks and sincere appreciation,
Very sincerely yours,
Annie Fellows
Johnston |
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1st Edn A.L.S
Miss Dickinson
With sincerest regards
Annie Fellows Johnston
Boerne, Texas U.S.A.
January 11, 1910
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