Twain lectured in the main towns of California and Nevada, and then decided to sail around the world from San Francisco. He wrote a weekly letter to a California newspaper for the price of $20 per letter. When he returned, he hoped to make another successful round of lectures.
However, people around the country had not heard of Twain, because the California newspaper had copyrighted his letters, rather than allow others papers to print them. Twain fought that paper to be allowed to use his own letters as the raw material for The Innocents Abroad.
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