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.
>>>>
>