Re: unpublished letters in UK

There is a good discussion of Victorian copyright policies in England at http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva74.html

At 01:12 PM 11/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Could someone give me guidance on the copyright status (or lack thereof)
>of private letters (never published) written in the mid-1800s, which have
>been passed down through the family who live in the UK? A writer wants to
>use these letters as source material for a book they are working on and
>the family want to know if the letters are public domain (or really if
>they can charge any sort of fee for the writer's use of the letters). Does
>the fact they are unpublished make a difference at all?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Laura Young Bost, Rights Manager
>University of Texas Press
>P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819
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