"'Shasta' is not a place, but a train. Yesterday evening I lectured in Seattle, then got into this train, which lands me in San Francisco tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evening I go on to Los Angeles, and then to San Diego: this makes, from Vancouver, the whole breadth of the U.S. from north to south." "At a bookshop in Seattle they had already sold out all their copies of Marriage and Morals though they had had a great many." "The New York papers review the book favourably, and do not hint that it is shocking. Perhaps I shall not be tarred and feathered after all!"