Editing Mark Twain (section)

====Canadian visits====
In 1881, Twain was honored at a banquet in [[Montreal]], Canada where he made reference to securing a [[copyright]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Twain in Montreal|url=http://www.twainquotes.com/18811210.html|website=twainquotes.com|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=January 2, 2017|ref=tq|archive-date=May 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509081234/http://www.twainquotes.com/18811210.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1883, Twain paid a brief visit to [[Ottawa]],<ref name="mtj"/> and he visited [[Toronto]] twice in 1884 and 1885 on a reading tour with [[George Washington Cable]], known as the "Twins of Genius" tour.<ref name="mtj">{{cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=Taylor|title=Mark Twain in Toronto, Ontario, 1884–1885|jstor=41641453|journal=Mark Twain Journal|volume=36|issue=2|pages=18–25|year=1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Genial Mark|url=http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/twintur11.html|website=University of Virginia Library|publisher=Toronto Globe|access-date=January 2, 2017|ref=uva|archive-date=January 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119152244/http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/twintur11.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="trl">{{cite web|title=Mark Twain in Toronto|url=http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/trl/2015/09/mark-twain-in-toronto.html|website=Toronto Reference Library Blog|access-date=January 2, 2017|archive-date=January 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102172134/http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/trl/2015/09/mark-twain-in-toronto.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The reason for the Toronto visits was to secure Canadian and British copyrights for Twain's upcoming book ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'',<ref name="mtj"/><ref name=trl/> to which he had alluded in his Montreal visit. The reason for the Ottawa visit had been to secure Canadian and British copyrights for ''Life on the Mississippi''.<ref name="mtj"/> Publishers in Toronto had printed unauthorized editions of Twain's books at the time, before an international copyright agreement was established in 1891.<ref name="mtj"/> These were sold in the United States as well as in Canada, depriving him of royalties. Twain estimated that [[Charles Belford|Belford Brothers']] edition of ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' alone had cost him $10,000 ({{Inflation|US|10000|1884|fmt=eq|r=-4}}).<ref name="mtj"/> He had unsuccessfully attempted to secure the rights for ''The Prince and the Pauper'' in 1881, in conjunction with his Montreal trip.<ref name="mtj"/> Eventually, Twain received legal advice to register a copyright in Canada (for both Canada and Britain) prior to publishing in the United States, which would restrain the Canadian publishers from printing a version when the American edition was published.<ref name="mtj"/><ref name=trl/> There was a requirement that a copyright be registered to a Canadian resident; Twain addressed this by his short visits to the country.<ref name="mtj"/><ref name=trl/>