Bliss, whose reply to this letter has not been found, did not have agents in Buffalo until late September (see 27 Sept 69 to Blissclick to open link). Clemens waited until 9 October to publish the Buffalo Express advertising supplement. Under the heading “Complimentary,” it reprinted thirty-nine “Press Greetings” to the new editor, most of them undated. (The greetings from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the Buffalo Courier, and the Buffalo Post were misdated 4 August, although the first two and probably the last had appeared on 16 August, two days after Clemens purchased one-third of the Express.) In addition, under the heading “Opinions of the Press,” the Express supplement printed forty-six extracts from “some twelve hundred complimentary notices of the book which have appeared in the several sections of the Union” (“Advertising Supplement,” Buffalo Express, 9 Oct 69, 1–2). Clemens may have incorporated some new clippings from Bliss, but he probably relied for Bliss’s contribution on the press extracts already in place in the canvasser’s prospectus for The Innocents Abroad (APC 1869, 1–4). It is not known if Bliss distributed copies of the Express advertising supplement.

Silas Packard’s letter does not survive, nor has any excerpt from it been identified in Bliss’s promotional materials for Innocents. Packard’s Monthly reviewed the book in its October number, which issued about 20 September, and Clemens extracted the review for the Express’s “Opinions of the Press” (“Books and Things,” Packard’s Monthly 2 Oct 69: 318–19; “Advertising Supplement,” Buffalo Express, 9 Oct 69, 1). Bliss later included an excerpt from the notice in his revised supplement to the canvasser’s prospectus (APC 1870, 5).