In the absence of solid info about Jean’s activities at that time, I will dare to speculate, based on my knowledge of that age group: she was probably playing with her iPhone.
-TR

> On Aug 27, 2019, at 20:05, miki pfeffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I don't know if plans went as recorded, but Livy wrote Grace King on May
> 28, 1891, that the family was going to Gascoigne, then Paris, Geneva, and
> "some German baths" for herself and Twain's rheumatism. "The girls we shall
> leave in a French family in Geneva," she wrote. Then, the Bayreuth festival
> for ten days and perhaps a French town for six weeks. Then to settle in
> Berlin for the winter where Clara would study piano and Susy voice (no
> mention of Jean there).
> 
> Hope this is of interest.
> Miki Pfeffer
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 2:41 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> On June 6, 1891 the Clemens family departed New York for France.  June
>> 20th, they left Paris for Geneva where Susy and Clara were placed in a
>> boarding school, and apparently the others went on to Annecy, Aix-les-
>> Bains and finally back to Geneva July 19th.  I'm curious as the Jean's
>> activities for this month. I have found no mention of her until Clara's
>> memoirs from their stay in Marienbad.
>> 
>> "During the latter part of our stay in that charming town, Mother went
>> to Berlin to look for rooms and took my elder sister with her. Father,
>> Jean, and our good maid Katie, were left behind."  Jean would be about
>> 11 years old at this time.
>> 
>> 
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