June 29 Tuesday – Jack Van Nostrand, Quaker City friend, wrote from Manitou, Colo.

Do you know Sam, I think next to the Bible, the “Innocents Abroad” has been in America, more universally read than any other book ever published. It don’t make any difference where I go, and I am always particular not to say any thing about it; people are always sure to find out that I am the “Jack” of the Innocents, and from that time forth…I have to spin more yarns and get off more stories than is expected of any old salt…the trip to me looking back at it through seven years of time was a grand success [MTMF xviii].