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Jules--

I have not visited the archives at Vassar but have used their resources. 
They have some amazing holdings:

https://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibit-highlights/2006-2010/mark-twain/simpson.html


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------ Original Message ------
From: "JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 3/26/2021 8:03:19 PM
Subject: Vasser

>Hi
>This time i am wondering if anyone has been to vasser college to see the twsin items there? And if so is it worth the trip?
>I have been to every place twain has been and berkely. This is the last place in usa.
>Thanks
>
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>________________________________
>From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:29:27 PM
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Minor Geographical Quibble
>
>Scott,
>
>In MT’s NOTEBOOKS & JOURNALS, Vol. 2, p. 144 — Clemens corrects the town
>name “Leuch” to “Bad-Leuk.”  He writes:
>
>“... looked down on steep precipice & town of <Leuch> Bad-Leuk.”
>
>I emailed a photo of that page from this volume to your personal email.
>Overall, I think you will find additional good details in Vol. 2 for your
>projects.
>
>Barb
>
>On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  That letter contains a wonderful description of Gemmi Pass but alas has no
>>  name for the village(s) he came to after crossing the pass.  I doubt Twain
>>  would have confused the names as he references Baedeker's guidebook in his
>>  description of descending from the pass.  Fears' reference is merely Rodney
>>  106.  Then, he notes an entry in his notebook.  I've ordered a used copy of
>>  Volume II.
>>
>>  On 3/23/21 6:26 AM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>  This online letter to Livy written from Leukerbad may be of interest —
>>>https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL
>>>  01589.xml;query=Leukerbad;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionTy
>>>  pe2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1
>>>
>>>    Barb
>>>
>>>  On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to
>>>>  distinguish between the two towns.  I can't check his journal or
>>>>  notebooks,
>>>>  however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. We pointed
>>>>  our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned with fringed
>>>>  gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the narrow alleys of
>>>>  the
>>>>  outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town through liquid
>>>>  "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or organize a
>>>>  ferry./
>>>>
>>>>  On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106.  Rodney
>>>>>  does
>>>>>  not mention Leukerbad.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Barb
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud
>>>>>  server
>>>>>
>>>>>>  and am combing through my site for bothersome details.  For those
>>>>>>  interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the
>>>>>>  pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short
>>>>>>  distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  The order of villages is actually reversed.  Leukerbad is the village
>>>>>>  with
>>>>>>  the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass.  Leuk is the town to
>>>>>>  the
>>>>>>  south of Leukerbad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con
>>>>>>  tent/kandersteg-leukerbad
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>

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