After the completion of his Eastern tour. . .

. . . Taylor went to London. He entered a shop to procure an article to cover his head. The purchase having been made, the shopman remarked: “Beg pard’n sir! an Hamerican gent, I hobserve; been in Hingland long?” “Why do you take me for an American?” asked Taylor, who rather prided himself upon being a cosmopolitan. “Yes, sir! beg pard’n sir! I hobserved that you said a Hat; beg pard’n, sir; but in Lunnon we commonly say han ‘at.”

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Monday, April 14, 1862