This is an interesting discussion. The broader question is about the copyright status of unpublished works. As we all (certainly) know, here, SLC died in 1910-- and didn't write much more after Dec 1909. But not everything was unreleased before he died. In fact, there was a lot of text. Much of the Autobiography, the pieces of #44, The Mysterious Stranger, etc. http://www.copyright.gov/pr/pdomain.html "Certain Unpublished, Unregistered Works Enter Public Domain" (This copyright thing is what my employer manages, so I know a little about it.) Our boy, of course, argued for perpetual copyright. He didn't get it. Also -- the copyright status of articles and short pieces appearing in journals and newspapers was different in his day. Mostly, they lacked copyright unless and until they were collected into a book. DDD