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Scott,

MTDBD can be used as a good source for hints, but best to always verify
that info by checking and using the primary resources.

Barb

On Monday, August 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you, Barbara.  This does look like the earliest use of a special car
> - four years later than indicated in Day By Day. Fears got it from Willis
> (the attribution is in his text) and apparently Willis found this letter
> but apparently forgot the date it was written.  Near the bottom of the page
> Miki sent me is a note that Susie was four years old at this time - 1876
> not 1880.
>
> On 8/23/21 3:16 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Scott,
>>
>> Rest Willis does quote the passage about Livy always going by special car
>> hereafter and sources it to a June 17, 1880 letter to Lilly Warner. It is
>> online here —
>> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL
>> 01814.xml;query=Warner;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2
>> =;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1
>>
>

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