# Endnotes explained — The Innocents Abroad

> Chapter companion for The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.

## What happens

A collection of endnotes providing additional context, corrections, and authorial asides, including a tribute to Colonel J. Heron Foster, clarifications on quotations, and various explanatory remarks.

## Character check-ins

### Colonel J. Heron Foster

Noted as a most estimable gentleman; the author expresses pain at learning of his decease shortly after his return home.

### The Narrator

Provides editorial comments and clarifications throughout the endnotes.

## Key lines

> Colonel J. Heron Foster , editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman. As these sheets are being prepared for the press I am pained to learn of his decease shortly after his return home. — M. T.

Colonel J. Heron Foster, a respected Pittsburgh newspaper editor, has died soon after coming back home, which saddens me as I finalize this book.

_Author's tribute and personal note of loss._

> The railroad has been completed since the above was written.

The railway mentioned earlier has now been finished.

_Update on infrastructure progress._

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