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Published in 1869, this account of a trip east to the Old World was a great popular
success. Within its first year it sold over 70,000 copies,
and it remained the best-selling of MT's books throughout
his lifetime. The book began as a series of travel letters
written mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco
paper that sponsored MT's participation in the Quaker
City trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Revising
the letters into a book was suggested by Elisha Bliss, who
published Innocents as a subscription book on July
20th, 1869.
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