To the interested list members, Author: Harris, Malcolm Hart Title: History of Louisa County, Virginia Publisher: Dietz Press Year: 1963 525 pages ______________________________ I called Dietz Press this morning. They said this was a private printing and was not distributed by them. [Dr.] Harris' last known address was in 1953, P.O. Box West Point VA. I checked some death records online and found that he died: SSN/FEIN: 229-60-1586 Last Name: HARRIS First Name: MALCOLM Date of Death: 04-00-1984 Date of Birth: 12-25-1896 Zip Code: 23181 Age at Death: 87 Last Residence: WEST POINT VA State Where SSN Issued: VIRGINIA I then called the Copyright office and was given the web site: www.loc.gov/copyright this site has searchable indexes for copyrights renewed from the year of 1978 forward. Since he published this book in 1963 and the operator told me that his copyright would have been good until 1991 I checked the to see if it was renewed. It wasn't. It appears the family must not have chosen to renew copyright of his book. If someone has access to a newspaper and can locate an obit for Dr. Harris, we can contact a next of kin, if there is one, to see if books are available. If that doesn't work then we can ask the Louisa County Historical Society to do a reprint. Lastly we can form a group and reprint the book ourselves for cost. I know the HIGGINSON book company does reprints for nominal fee. It depends on the paper choice and the cover, etc. Can we have a little discussion on this, I for one would like to have a copy of the book. Regards, Adrianne Hopkins Atlanta, GA