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MTPO Doc Ed VIII “The Great Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land” (May–July 1867) Show Headnote Notebook 8 was evidently begun in mid-May 1867, less than three weeks before Clemens sailed in the Quaker City for Europe and the Holy Land. It is the first of three surviving Quaker City notebooks and contains notes that Clemens made primarily for his letters to the San Francisco Alta California, and so by extension for his first major book, The Innocents Abroad.

MTPO Doc Ed IX “A Funeral Excursion Without a Corpse” [Headnote] (11 August–11 October 1867) The last dated entry in Notebook 8 (2 July 1867) left Clemens at sea, bound for Marseilles, while the entry bearing the earliest date in Notebook 9 (11 August 1867) marks his departure from the harbor of Naples. A notebook was certainly kept for the intervening period, but no evidence refutes Paine's surmise that the “notes of this period are lost.

MTPO Doc Ed X “The Camping Grounds of the Patriarchs” [Headnote] (August—December 1867) Notebook 10 was used by Clemens intermittently and somewhat erratically between mid-August 1867 and the end of that year. It contains entries related to the Quaker City trip and entries made during Clemens' subsequent brief stint in Washington as a newspaper correspondent. It is clear that Clemens originally intended to use Notebook 10 as a portable reference guide during his travels in the Holy Land.