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
Kevin
@
Mac Donnell Rare Books
9307 Glenlake Drive
Austin TX 78730
512-345-4139
Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA
You can browse our books at:
www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
------ 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
>
>Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>
>
>________________________________
>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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
|
