Portal talk:Pulitzers

And thereupon, having so decreed [that the Kloran was to be kept secret and inviolate], "Emperor" Simmons, on January 12, 1917, made application in Washington for copyright on his book, which was granted after he had sent one dollar and two complete copies of the Kloran to the Register of Copyrights, as required by law. And ever since, also in strict compliance with the law, The Book of the Invisible Empire has been available to all comers in the reading room of the Library of Congress, through the card-index system, just as any other book copyrighted in the United States.