I'm so glad, Scott. Miki

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It seems, with your second note about St. Gothard - Gotthard Pass -
> you've been of great help to me.  I knew I had reference to Gotthard in
> my site, so I looked it up and found it was a note about Joe Twichell,
> he took a solo three day trip there in  1878 while Twain remained in
> Lucerne.  So I checked my 1898 map of railway routes and a tunnel
> through the pass did exist.  It was opened in 1882.  This provides a
> direct route to Milan and then to Genoa.
>
> So, you've been of great help to me.
>
>
> On 10/6/20 7:38 AM, miki pfeffer wrote:
> > Scott,
> > After I had sent the email and *re-read* your request, I realized you
> were
> > looking for specifics that I had not helped.
> > Note to self: take time to fully grasp the question; don't jump ahead.
> > Your project is a fascinating one.
> > Miki
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:52 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you, Miki, for taking the time to respond to my query.  I'm
> >> actually looking to find Sam and Livy's locations on a very specific
> >> period, when they departed Berlin - which Fears notes as February 29,
> >> and when they arrived in Merton, March 3 or 4, 1892. Fears makes note of
> >> two letters in relation to this thousand mile journey: February 21, to
> >> McClure, and March 21 to Moffett.  The contents of these letters is not
> >> available on-line. Given Twain's general habits of train travel. he must
> >> have stopped to rest at least twice on this journey.  If I can get some
> >> town and/or village names, I can try to guess at the railways the
> >> Clemenses traveled over.
> >>
> >> On 10/5/20 12:29 PM, miki pfeffer wrote:
> >>> Scott,
> >>> Livy also recommends to Grace July 1, 1892, that the "trip over the St.
> >>> Gothard" as a "most wonderful trip."
> >>> Miki
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:50 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> In February of 1892 Sam and Livy departed Berlin  for the warmer
> climes
> >>>> of the French Riviera, the town of Merton.  I'm attempting to map the
> >>>> route they took but can find no indication of the towns they may have
> >>>> passed through.  I have an 1896 map that shows the railroads that
> >>>> existed in Europe at that time and it displays quite a complex web.
> >>>>
> >>>> It seems likely they returned via the same route they took to get to
> >>>> Berlin, through Frankfurt and Basel, but I don't know that.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't have access to Sam's 1892 journals and Fears makes no mention
> of
> >>>> stops on the way.  Any information on this would be greatly
> appreciated.
> >>>>
> >
>


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*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
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