Letter to the London Times, May 15, 1967:

Sir, is it not time that the Governments of great nations ceased to brag about their astronauts orbiting the earth? I have myself circled round the sun eighty times, without any publicity; a far greater achievement. I am in fact, just starting on my eighty-first orbit. And although I am an old man (I was born on May 10, 1887) I have been circling regularly from the day of my birth, if not before; and have suffered no ill effects.

Everyone does it.

Yours faithfully,

Frank Townshend