You might also take a look at the letter SLC wrote Henry H. Rogers 20 Sept.
1902 describing Charley Langdon engaging a Pullman to move Livy from York
Harbor, Maine to Riverdale and the proposed route (p. 507 of MT’S
CORRESPONDENCE WITH HENRY HUTTLESTON ROGERS.

Barb

On Saturday, August 21, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you both for these clues.  I also recollect mention of palace cars
> some time ago on Twain-L but I don't have the references.  I have found
> myself immersed in railroads while tracking Twain's travels - more than I
> had ever intended.  And, for the past week I've been in a semi-delirium
> from a break through case of covid  subjecting me to odd trajectories
> prompted by skimming through Day By Day for times and places.  Of course
> it's these colorful little tidbits that add so much to delving into
> Twainiana.  I suspect the palace cars were manufactured by the Pullman
> Company.
>
> On 8/21/21 6:03 PM, Matt Seybold wrote:
>
>> I don’t have the references in front of me, but the Clemenses used the
>> Langdon family’s private cars regularly in the 1900s (and probably before
>> as well). I believe there is a letter in which Twain describes one in some
>> detail as part of planning to transport Livy back to Elmira while she was
>> convalescing.
>>
>>   - MS
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2021, at 8:48 PM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The reference you may be thinking of is mentioned in a letter to John
>>> McComb 6(?) Feb. 1870.  The original letter is apparently lost.  The
>>> transcription from newspaper publication is online at:
>>> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL
>>> 00420.xml;query=Palace%20car;searchAll=yes;sectionType1=
>>> text;sectionType2=explanatorynotes;sectionType3=
>>> editorialmatter;sectionType4=textualapparatus;sectionType5=
>>> ;style=letter;brand=mtp#1
>>>
>>> Barb
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 21, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've gotten hints that Mark Twain had available to him, at least
>>>> briefly,
>>>> a luxury railroad car, probably made available to him by his
>>>> father-in-law.  I would appreciate any leads on this as Google seems to
>>>> know nothing about it.  I did see the term "hotel" used to describe a
>>>> car
>>>> Twain rode in, possibly  from Elmira to New York, if I'm not mistaken.
>>>>
>>>>