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  • Who was Blucher in The Innocents Abroad?

    Mark Twain uses a fictional character in The Innocents Abroad to help him tell representative stories based on different passengers on the Quaker City. In his original Alta letters, he used a character named Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown shows up roughly twenty one times in the Alta letters (roughly because it depends how you divide…

  • Mark Twain’s Quaker City Letters

    Mark Twain’s book The Innocents Abroad was based on his trip on the Quaker City side-paddle steamship. Twain’s ticket was paid for by the Daily Alta California newspaper in San Francisco, which paid the $1250 ticket price (roughly $25,000 in today’s dollars) in exchange for 50 letters during the journey which would be published in…