For the record, let me report that MTP does not,
unfortunately, have copies of the very heavily annotated pages of Dodge's
book. Blair did not see them before he did HH&T
(1969). Dahlia Armon did not seen them before she re-did the text and
annotations in Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and
other Unfinished Stories (1989). The editors of
Huck Finn (Vic Fischer and Lin Salamo) have not
seen them--and it is now too late to put anything from them into the new
edition, due out in the next few weeks. We have copies only of what the
original 1911 auction catalog reported, plus I believe one page
reproduced in facsimile by Bob Slotta in one of his recent catalogs.
Many collectors and dealers certainly have been very cooperative over the
years in making photocopies (or letting us transcribe) documents about to
be sold. But dealers require that such copying be OKd by the seller, and
it is by no means universally allowed. It's also true that we don't
always get timely notice of auctions or sales, or cannot always afford to
send someone to the viewing before sale. Marginalia are also particularly
hard to capture in this way because photocopying is rarely if ever
allowed, partly for the reasons Kevin mentions.
One additional fact seems relevant here. If any of this marginalia
remains unpublished on January 1st, it will no longer be protected under
U.S. copyright law. Anyone may publish it without permission or fee or
other constraint.
Bob Hirst